"I am sorry," Thomson replied stiffly, "but this is not a matter which I can
discuss in any other way except officially, and I do not recognise you as having any special claims for information."
People will there
discuss with humility vital questions that we here think ourselves too good to touch with tongs."
In the next chapter I shall discuss the complex and little known laws of variation and of correlation of growth.
For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived.
It is necessary, therefore, if we desire to
discuss this matter thoroughly, to inquire whether these innovators can rely on themselves or have to depend on others: that is to say, whether, to consummate their enterprise, have they to use prayers or can they use force?
The possibility of raising Catalonia in the interest of the REY NETTO, who had just then crossed the Pyrenees, was much
discussed there.
Besides: that shrinking from having Miss Havisham and Estella
discussed, which had come upon me in the beginning, grew much more potent as time went on.
PLANS
DISCUSSED. - PLEASURES OF "CAMPING-OUT," ON FINE NIGHTS.
It is not necessary to discuss at length a minor question which has been raised by Boeckh, respecting the imaginary date at which the conversation was held (the year 411 B.
The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice, the nature of which is first hinted at by Cephalus, the just and blameless old man-- then discussed on the basis of proverbial morality by Socrates and Polemarchus--then caricatured by Thrasymachus and partially explained by Socrates--reduced to an abstraction by Glaucon and Adeimantus, and having become invisible in the individual reappears at length in the ideal State which is constructed by Socrates.
Their meeting was friendly and courteous; and they
discussed, sociably, their respective fortunes since they separated on the banks of the Bighorn.
He, I know--for the question had been
discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.