Postscript

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Jonardon Ganeri
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Novel ◽  
The Many ◽  
As If

Among the many fragmentary texts that remain as Pessoa’s literary bequest are notes for what may have been intended as a philosophical novel. Dating from 1914, the following sketch is of particular interest: I do not know who I am, what soul I have. When I speak with sincerity, I do not know with what sincerity I speak. I am variously other than a self that I do not know exists (if it is those others) … I feel multifaceted. I am like a room with innumerable fantastic mirrors that distort false reflections, a single previous reality that is not in any and is in all. As the pantheist feels as if a wave, star, and flower, I feel as if various beings. I feel myself living other lives, in myself, incompletely, as if my being participated in all men, incompletely in each, individuated by a sum of non-selves synthesized into a dummy self....

I Want Everybody to Have the Same Chance to Find Happiness

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-140
Author(s):  
Joel Thiessen ◽  
Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Many ◽  
Politically Active ◽  
As If

This chapter deals with political and civic engagement, once more comparing the actively religious, marginally religious, and unaffiliated. In terms of political engagement, the focus is on the many ways individuals are or are not politically active, including who they vote for. Discussion is similarly given to volunteering and charitable giving habits, such as if people volunteer or donate money (or not), how frequently and where they volunteer or give, and motivations for volunteering and giving. The chapter concludes with some possible social and civic implications on the horizon for those in the United States and Canada, should religious nones continue to hold a sizeable proportion of the population.

Emanuel Swedenborg

1869 ◽  
Vol 15 (70) ◽  
pp. 169-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Maudsley
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual World ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
Emanuel Swedenborg ◽  
Moral Feeling ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Universe ◽  
As If

Few are the readers, and we cannot boast to be of those few, who have been at the pains to toil through the many and voluminous writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Indeed, it would not be far from the truth to say that there are very few persons who have thought it worth their while to study him at all seriously; he is commonly accounted a madman, who has had the singular fortune to persuade certain credulous persons that he was a seer. Nevertheless, whether lunatic or prophet, his character and his writings merit a serious and unbiased study. Madness, which makes its mark upon the world, and counts in its train many presumably sane people who see in it the highest wisdom, cannot justly be put aside contemptuously as undeserving a moment's grave thought. After all, there is no accident in madness; causality, not casualty, governs its appearance in the universe; and it is very far from being a good and sufficient practice to simply mark its phenomena, and straightway to pass on as if they belonged, not to an order, but to a disorder of events that called for no explanation. It is certain that there is in Swedenborg's revelations of the spiritual world a mass of absurdities sufficient to warrant the worst suspicions of his mental sanity; but, at the same time, it is not less certain that there are scattered in his writings conceptions of the highest philosophic reach, while throughout them is sensible an exalted tone of calm moral feeling which rises in many places to a real moral grandeur. These are the qualities which have gained him his best disciples, and they are qualites too uncommon in the world to be lightly despised, in whatever company they may be exhibited. I proceed then to give some account of Swedenborg, not purposing to make any review of his multitudinous publications, or any criticism of the doctrines announced in them with a matchless self-sufficiency; the immediate design being rather to present, by the help mainly of Mr. White's book, a sketch of the life and character of the man, and thus to obtain, and to endeavour to convey, some definite notion of what he was, what he did, and what should be concluded of him.*

scholarly journals The Roman Church and Modern Italian Democracy

1920 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-183
Author(s):  
Giorgio La Piana
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
The Many ◽  
As If

Among the many anecdotes about Pope Sixtus V, a stern figure of an Italian Pope-king of the sixteenth century, there is one which tells of an old Franciscan friar who had been a close friend of the Pope when the latter in his young days was a friar himself, known by the name of Felice Peretti, living in a small convent of northern Italy. When “Fra Felice” was elected Pope, his friend thought that Sixtus would not forget him and would call him to Rome and perhaps make him an important personage in the Curia. But no call came from Rome, not even an acknowledgment of the humble letters of congratulation sent with so many hopes by the old friar to his exalted friend. So he decided to go to Rome and speak personally to the Pope. After many hours of waiting in the antechamber he was admitted to the papal presence. Sixtus looked at him with indifferent eye as if he never had known him.

Bryher’s Family Closet

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Susan McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
The Many ◽  
World Exhibition ◽  
As If

This chapter traces Bryher’s “illegitimate” roots, vaguer than H.D.’s, in spite of her family’s amassed wealth. Her father, an accounting genius, married Bryher’s mother, Hannah Glover, when he had not yet achieved his fame in shipping lines. One of the many invisible women in the working class and in this book, possibly a milliner, Hannah’s origins are shrouded in mystery. John became Sir John Ellerman, his shipping lines buttressing England’s imperial reach. Sir John was suspected of being Jewish, though it cannot be confirmed. Bryher grew up in a house of secrecy but idealized her childhood; her parents, as if they were on the run, took her on many exotic travels. She was in Paris for the 1900 World Exhibition and rode a camel in Egypt. She modeled her inner life on boys’ books.

The Origins of Pictorial Competence

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 114-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy S. DeLoache ◽  
Sophia L. Pierroutsakos ◽  
David H. Uttal
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Accurate Perception ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
The Many ◽  
As If

Pictorial competence, which refers to the many factors involved in perceiving, interpreting, understanding, and using pictures, develops gradually over the first few years of life. Although experience is not required for accurate perception of pictures, it is necessary for understanding the nature of pictures. Infants initially respond to depicted objects as if they were real objects, and toddlers are remarkably insensitive to picture orientation. Only gradually do young children figure out the nature of pictures and how they are used.

The papal scandal (presidential address)

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 141-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Many ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

The Greek word skandalon means a stumbling-block, an offence. As such it is used frequently in the Septuagint and the new testament. In Byzantine texts at least from the eleventh century the word is employed as a collective noun to denote the many obstacles that stood in the way of union between the Greek and Latin churches. In the thirteenth century, however, it is often qualified by the phrase ‘relating to or concerning the pope’—τò κατά τòν πάπαν σκάνδαλον. It was as if the pope or the papacy had come to be identified as the cause or agent of the stumbling-block that lay in the path of understanding. This is the ‘papal scandal’ that I have in mind.

The Many-Layered Cake: A Case Study in the Reform of the Indian Empire

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Danzig
Keyword(s):  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Minimal Difference ◽  
The Many ◽  
As If

Whereas reformers (occasionally with intent to mislead, often because they are themselves misled) tend to describe their work as if it were a concerted, directed whole worked out with a minimal difference of attitude and opinion, historians often gravitate to the glaring points of conflict in studying the development of a reform act. From these it is easy and interesting to paint a colourful picture. One might (rather inaccurately) describe the evolution of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms as the product of a process of conflict between the ambitious, radical, eccentric, ego-centric, Jewish, Secretary of State for India, Montagu and the Edwardian, unambitious, conscientious, self-effacing Viceroy, Chelmsford. Similarly, there is some temptation to view the growth of these reforms as the outcome of a battle between the forces of light (Montagu and Chelmsford) and the forces of darkness (the provincial governors).

Die lateinische ›Versio vulgata‹ des griechischen Legendenromans von ›Barlaam und Josaphat‹

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-417
Author(s):  
Franz Josef Worstbrock
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Latin Translation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
As If

AbstractThe ›Versio vulgata‹, probably written around 1170 in Paris (St. Denis), a thoroughly accurate Latin translation of its Greek model, the ›Historia of Barlaam and Joasaph‹, is the starting point for the legend of ›Barlaam and Josaphat‹, which was widely used in all literature in the Western Middle Ages. It itself had an unusually rapid and broad reception, in which, according to the testimony of more than 100 preserved manuscripts, especially the new monastic orders of the 12th century participated, led by the Cistercians. The narrative programme of the ›Historia‹ is the path of the king’s son Josaphat into an existence of radical religious renunciation of the world, the central act of the plot being his departure from power, from the country and its people into the eremitic wilderness. It takes place against the protest of the people, who do not want to let the beloved king go, and especially against the protest of Prince Barachias, whom Josaphat forces into his succession. Here the individual’s desire for salvation not only disputes the claim of the salvation of the many, but above all denies the forced successor the possibility of an equal path of salvation. Thus the ›Historia‹ is loaded with an insoluble aporia at its key point. The use of the Bible has a formative effect on the style of the ›Historia‹, not so much the frequent citation of marked exact Bible quotations as the even more frequent insertion of smaller or larger biblical excerpts into the narrator’s speech or that of one of his characters as if they were part of their own speech.

“Arabian Coffee” in the Land of the Sweets

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-163
Author(s):  
Jennifer Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
English Horn ◽  
Current Version ◽  
Hot Climate ◽  
The Many ◽  
As If

Onstage, a nineteenth-century German girl waits for her first encounter with the Middle East, which will come courtesy of Tchaikovsky and the many years of choreographic evolution that have preceded the current version of The Nutcracker in which she is performing. The girl's name is Clara (or sometimes Marie), and she has come to a fantasy land, where a lively Spanish dance has been given in her honor. Now, there is softer, slower music with a steady, insistent rhythm and a snaking melody carried by an English horn. Dancers glide onto the stage wearing gauzy harem pants and jeweled headdresses, their faces impassive, their gait deliberate and stately. Who are they? Clara's face seems to ask, and what will they do? Certainly it will be like nothing she has ever seen before because they are dressed like people from far away, a hot climate perhaps, where no one moves quickly and different customs prevail. There is a woman who walks like a princess, with a cool, internal gaze and limbs that stretch out imperially. A consort picks her up and swirls her arched figure around as if she were in need of a breeze. Then they stand side by side, pausing as if transfixed by a greater power, their hands drifting above them with palms facing the sky. When they disappear, Clara stares after them, wondering, no doubt, where they came from and what on earth that was all about.

scholarly journals THE CASTLE OF MADELEINE ALLUSIONS OF MADELEINE

Astraea ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 127`-136
Author(s):  
Yulia SAFONOVA
Keyword(s):  
Royal Family ◽  
Royal Palace ◽  
The Many ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
As If

In a distant and wonderful place, surrounded by dense forests and deepest lakes, stands, as if towering above all earthly, the palace of magnificent view and impressive size. Twenty-five years ago, it was home to the royal family with their son and Crown Prince Adamingo. But at the age of seventeen, the prince had to become the ruler of an entire kingdom, and this circumstance changed him a lot. Close to the prosperous kingdom of the haughty, spoiled Crown Prince Adamingo was a castle as large as a royal palace. The appearance of this castle was so gloomy and frightening that it seemed that no one had lived there for many centuries. People living in the kingdom began to multiply mysterious rumors about this castle, telling the story that anyone who enters inside will never leave it. Mothers frightened their children with fictional stories about the many disappearances of little kids, that decided to play in the castle and never returned. Of course, these rumors instilled in people even greater fear of the mysterious castle.

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