Lady Acheson’s Privy for Two

The Closet ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 79-110
Author(s):  
Danielle Bobker
Keyword(s):  
Neurotic Symptom ◽  
Country House ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Natural Cycles ◽  
New View

This chapter offers a new view of Jonathan Swift's “excremental vision” by approaching it not as a personal quirk or neurotic symptom but as a perceptive critique of the excretory autonomy that flushable water closets would soon come to embody. It talks about the country-house poets that had traditionally celebrated abundant fields and communal feasts in the great hall as signs of Swift's generosity. It confirms that in Swift's mock country-house poem “Panegyric on the Dean,” he imagined the pair of his-and-hers privies built on Lord and Lady Acheson's country estate. The chapter also analyzes why the poem is at odds with the natural cycles of regeneration and feudal hospitality that it sent the mind away from the earth, the cosmos, and other people in a burlesque of closet prayer. It mentions that Swift tried to preempt Lady Acheson's desire to circulate the poem by casting her as the speaker in his first scatological poem.

Synchronizing the Neurospora crassa circadian clock with the rhythmic environment

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 949-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Price-Lloyd ◽  
M. Elvin ◽  
C. Heintzen
Keyword(s):  
Light Intensity ◽  
Circadian Clock ◽  
Neurospora Crassa ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Circadian Clocks ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Signalling Pathways ◽  
Selection Pressures ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Natural Cycles

The metronomic predictability of the environment has elicited strong selection pressures for the evolution of endogenous circadian clocks. Circadian clocks drive molecular and behavioural rhythms that approximate the 24 h periodicity of our environment. Found almost ubiquitously among phyla, circadian clocks allow preadaptation to rhythms concomitant with the natural cycles of the Earth. Cycles in light intensity and temperature for example act as important cues that couple circadian clocks to the environment via a process called entrainment. This review summarizes our current understanding of the general and molecular principles of entrainment in the model organism Neurospora crassa, a simple eukaryote that has one of the best-studied circadian systems and light-signalling pathways.

scholarly journals Finding guidelines on social change in the two-tiered narrative and diakonia in the Gospel of John

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Breed
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
New Order ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Earth ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Invisible

It is shown in this article that the Gospel of John describes a battle between darkness and light, life and death, chaos and God’s new order. Although the certainty is given right at the beginning of the Gospel that the darkness will not overcome the light, God does not take the possibility of darkness away. Darkness in John is darkness of the mind, not seeing the light, not comprehending, not accepting and not believing the Word. The battle between light and darkness is described at two levels – the visible level that you can see with your eyes and the invisible level that only those who have been regenerated by the Spirit can see. Although it may seem that the contrary is true, God is in control of both levels. Jesus made the invisible visible with his words and deeds and, eventually, with his resurrection. The diakonoi (servants) of Jesus are called to follow him in his task to honour the father by speaking the words of the father and doing the work of the father. In doing this, they will make the invisible God visible by their diakonia (service). Real social change will take place in God’s time, and he will use the diakonia of his children to bring order in the chaos, like he did in the beginning when he created the heavens and the earth. The results of the research are used to suggest guidelines on social change in South Africa.

Doubt

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-61
Author(s):  
Samuel Wright
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Mind ◽  
New View

Chapter 1 draws a connection between critical inquiry and the feeling of trust among scholars. It argues that a new relationship between doubting and reasoning can be found in the early modern period of Sanskrit logic that allowed for new forms of critical inquiry to be employed by scholars. Specifically, the chapter recovers a new conception of doubt called “doubt from speech” (śābda-saṃśaya) in contrast to an older conception called “doubt in the mind” (mānasa-saṃśaya). Yet, when scholars accepted the arguments for this new conception of doubt, they displayed themselves to be not only intellectually competent but also emotionally competent with respect to “the new,” enabling a feeling of trust to emerge between scholars who accepted the new view on doubt and its role in critical inquiry.

scholarly journals The Temple of Apollo at Delphi

1888 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 282-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Henry Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Pure Water ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Temple

In many respects Delphi and its varied cults possess an interest which is not to be rivalled by that of any other Hellenic site. The lofty precipices, the dark deeply-cleft ravines, the mysterious caves, and the bubbling springs of pure water, combine to give the place a romantic charm and a fearfulness of aspect which no description can adequately depict.Again Delphi stands alone in the catholic multiplicity of the different cults which were there combined.In primitive times it was the awfulness of Nature which impressed itself on the imaginations of the inhabitants.In an early stage of development the mind of man tends to gloomy forms of religion: his ignorance and comparative helplessness tend to fill his brain with spiritual terrors and forebodings. Thus at Delphi the primitive worship was that of the gloomy Earth and her children, the chasm-rending Poseidon, and the Chthonian Dionysus, who, like Osiris, was the victim of the evil powers of Nature. It was not till later times that the bright Phoebus Apollo came to Delphi to slay the earth-born Python, just as the rising sun dissipates the shadows in the depths of the Delphian ravines, or as in the Indian legend the god Indra kills with his bright arrows the great serpent Ahi—symbol of the black thunder-cloud.

Principalities and Powers: the Cosmic Background of Paul's Thought

1954 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. C. MacGregor
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Cosmic Background ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Christian Proclamation ◽  
The Demonic

I hope that no apology is necessary for the choice of a subject so closely akin to that of the Presidential Address by Professor William Manson last year.1 It was in fact that address which inspired the present paper. If any further justification is necessary for reverting to this theme I would remind you that a presidential address is by use and wont exempt from criticism, so that last year there was no opportunity for the discussion of a subject which should surely invite lively debate. Moreover, though Dr Manson in his address made occasional reference to Paul's thought, he deliberately confined himself in the main to the ‘Spiritual Background of the Work of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels’. Such promising exploration deserves to be followed up, for it is only with Paul that this background is filled in, in all its tremendous cosmic grandeur. As Dr Manson put it, the spirit world in Paul's thought ‘has taken on new dimensions and acquired a cosmic range and character’. Or again, whereas last year we were meeting the demonic powers ‘in the form of malignant and ghoulish beings, on the earth-level of popular demonic belief’, this year we are confronted by Paul's ‘grandiose hierarchy of cosmic spirits’. But my best justification is the sheer importance of this subject for the understanding of Paul's thought. As Professor J. S. Stewart has remarked in a notable article in the Scottish Journal of Theology (vol. IV, no. 3), we shall never get inside the mind of Paul until we take seriously what has in fact been ‘a neglected emphasis in New Testament Theology’, and cease to treat ‘as secondary and extraneous elements in the primitive Christian proclamation what in fact are integral and basic components of the Gospel’.

The new view of the earth

1979 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-362
Author(s):  
P. Styles
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
New View

scholarly journals The topic of the end of life in the treaty ratification of the Russian princes in the XIV - XV centuries

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
E.L. Konyavskaya
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Treaty Ratification ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Mind

The article deals with the statements in connection with the end of life on the Earth in the treaty ratification of the Russian princes in XIV-XV centuries, which were acquiring (had been acquiring) with the lapse of time the nature of commonplaces and formulas. It is shown that in such acts occur daily thanatological representations of the Russian rulers. They reflect a belief about the end of human life in God's hands. Finiteness of human life in the mind of the princes was combined with the continuation of the procreation of life.

A Paper in Condemnation of Gas as an Aid to Aërial Machines

1880 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Fred. W. Brearey
Keyword(s):  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Aerial Navigation ◽  
The Mind

I Wish to protest against the ever-recurring project of the sustentation of so-called aerial machines, by the employment of gas contained in any form of envelope, stiffened, strutted, or spherical. The mind, which enters freshly into the study of aerial navigation pure and simple, often confounded by the inability to rise from the earth, naturally suggests the aid of gas to take off the weight of the apparatus. This, however, would be a combination quite destructive of flight. The flying machine, if ever one worthy of the name be constructed, will be some apparatus of two dimensions, and will consequently be dwarfed by any auxiliary aid of cubical dimensions, such asa balloon, or any apparatus of the nature of a balloon, whatever be its shape.

Review of Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind.

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Aanstoos
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
The Mind
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