What festivals of atonement, what sacred gamesshall we need to invent?

How shall we, murderers of all murderers,console ourselves?

How were we able to drink up the sea? Whogave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when weunchained the earth from its sun?

many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excitedconsiderable laughter

Whither is God?"

What are these churches now if they an: not the tombs andsepulchres of God?

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Thia deed is still more distant from them thanthe most distant stars-tlfldJII thg • "°'11 iith,,,,s,t,,,,.

Must we notourselves become gods simplytoseem worthy of it?

How shall we, the murdcrmof11.1.1murderers, console ourselves

Arc_we n�tpeipetually falling? Backward, s1deward, forward,111alldirections? lt there any up ordown left?

ow were we able to ddnk up thesea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon

'I shall tell you.We lkwl Id/ltd hi11t - you and I.

hyperkalemic

s Veltassa prescriptio

Yeah, definitely the day before he died

always thought Shannon was a good-for-nothing leech, living off of Bancroft’s153money and doing all these sorts of unprofitable ventures

Happy to tell you, but probably easier to ask Kell

contingency fee. If Shannon prevails, I get 0.1% of the total value of what Shannon inherits.267If Shannon does not prevail, I shall receive nothing.

hat Hopson directly killed their fathe

sychology and biochemistry from Bowling Green State University. I also11have a master’s degree in biochemistry from Michigan State

ollowed by a two-year residency specializing in pulmonary medicine at the University of Alaska31Hospitals.

According to Silva,

ut you need to control your father.80He’s been asking too many questions

ullivan had16super PACs supporting her campaign. The largest one was run by Avery Bancroft,

Kirby Doolittle

Alex99definitely drank alcohol, but I don’t remember seeing Harley drink any of the rounds I ordered

Second, Avery and Taylor aren’t exactly close

ecember 2023, after visiting dozens of countries, Avery and I found ourselves in eastern41Australia.

e he was friends with both the Chief of Police and the32District Attorney (they had a weekly poker game through all of 2022)

I was Avery’s new17personal assistant

Afood that they normally never refused had become less than desirable: ithad become distasteful!9

we'd trisger some real drama.

They are so fond of barter that they will evenbring you a dried orange peel in exchange for a pebble, both useless items.

The answer is that it is not wealth perse that enhances well-being but relative wealth

American economist who noticed that withinevery society, rich people tend to be happier than poor ones

ften depend on each otherand survive through cooperation

Vocalizations are their lifeline to the group.

e set up situations in which they could work together, share food, exchange tokens,recognize faces, and so on

. Our sense of fairness is an intellectual transformation of this shared emotion

how emotions and cognition go hand- in hand to producethe outcomes we se

ability to read another's emotions, use emotional information, and control one's own emotions in order to achievegoals.4

animal emotions are a sign of intelligence, as Iwill argue here

visceral

misleading giventhat the brain is wired in a million ways to the body and is an integratedpart of it.

Disdain for the body

human mind requiresa material vesse

Women were considered sentimentaland intuitive, more in tune with their bodies, hence not nearly as intellectual as men

ill look down on the emotions and think that sound decision makingrequires that we be dear-headed and dispassionat

two actually go together and cannot operate without each other

let yourselffall in love with the wrong person,

filter of experience and learning knownas appraisal

yet depends on comparing current conditions with past experience,

till produce the desired behavioral change, butonly after a careful evaluation of the situation.

Fear isaself-protective emotion, which puts it at thetop of the survival value list.

e scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition in having two layers. Like the latter, it passes onits theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.

neurotics

we accept defeat too easily, we may prevent ourselves from finding that we were very nearly right

e expect regularities everywhere and attempt tofind them even where there are none; events which do not yield to these attempts we are inclined to treat as a kind of‘background noise’;

dogmatic

rchitects of themachine, must decide a priori what constitutes its ‘world’;

hen Kant said,‘Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature but imposes its laws upon nature’, he was right.

logically a priori in this sense the expectation is not valid a priori.

priori,

nborn propensity to look out for regularities,

inbornexpectations.

nbor

bjects change . . . according to the needs of the animal.’

incredulity.

cientific theorieswere not the digest of observations, but that they were inventions--conjectures boldly put forward for trial, to beeliminated if they clashed with observations; with observations which were rarely accidental but as a rule undertakenwith the definite intention of testing a theory by obtaining, if possible, a decisive refutation

we actively try to impose

proposed to explainrepetition-for-us as the result of our propensity to expect regularities and to search for them.

propensity

nswer w

similarity-for-us is the product of a response involving interpretations (which may beinadequate) and anticipations or expectations

aive idea of eventswhich are similar by the idea of events to which we react by interpreting them as being similar.

he situation was a repetition-for-them because they respondedto it by anticipating its similarity to the previous one.

central idea of Hume's theory is that of repetition, based upon similarity (or 'resemblance’).

repetition but also for a great deal of novelty, andconsequently of non-repetition

but we must not s

these become consciou

Hume thought

superfluous.

practice of induction by an appeal toexperience must lead to an infinite regress.

he problem of induction-

demarcation

demarcation--

annot claim to be backed by empirical evidence in the scientific sense-

hese theories describe some facts, but in the manner of myths.

predict things so vaguely that the predictions can hardly fail: that they become irrefutable.

eformulate as follows.

e theory is incompatible with certain possible results of observation--i

| could not think of any h

incessant stream of confirmations, of observations which ‘verified’ the theories in question; and this point was constantly emphasized by their adherents.

Once your eyes were thus opened you saw confirming instances everywhere: the world was full of verifications of the theory.

hese theories appeared to be able to explain practically everything that happened within the fields to which they referred.

exp/anatory power.

felt that these other three theories, though posing as sciences, had in fact more in common with primitive myths than with science; that they resembled astrology rather than astronomy.

hy are they so different from physical theories, from Newton's theory, and especially from the theory of relativity?

t was a great experience for us,

Marx's theory of history, Freud's psycho-analysis, and Alfred Adler's so-called ‘individual psychology’

'metaphysics'--by its empirical method,

ished to distinguish between science and pseudo-science;

REFUTATIONS

ONJECTURES

To praise this intricate whirl of thought and pr

ferment of social change, wherein forces of all kinds are fighting for supremacy; and to praise the ill the South is to-day perpetrating is just as wrong as to condemn the_ good.

Negroes would shirk a heavy responsibility

egroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to modern manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as well as white boys.

inded opponents.

hitherto

abatement

One class

t is utterly impossible, under modern competitive methods, for workingmen and property-owners to defend their rights and exist without the right of suffrag

disfranchisement

oncentrate all their energies on industrial education, the accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South.

national opinion, the Negroes began to recognize Mr. Washington’s leadership;

ashington arose as essentially the leader not of one race but of two,—a compromiser between the South, the North, and the Negro.

but insisted that they themselves were freemen, and sought assimilation and amalgamation with the nation on the same terms with other men.

ardor.

en the a

is is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society.

If that is all you and your race ask, take it.”

he ideals of material prosperity

So both approved it,

programme after many decades of bitter complaint; it startled and won the applaus

outh a new heaven and a new earth. 20

ontribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we Shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.

helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to education of head, hand, and heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories.

helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Cast down your bucket where you are”— cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surroun

manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the managers of this magnificent Exposition

tlanta Exposition Speech”

I acknowledge the benefit of both.

servility,

eOctopus.28

languor.

the two menapproached each other, Presley, closely studyingthe other, began to wonder where he had seenhim before.

the valleys up,And stop to feed itself at

present.12

ehold its effectupon this plant."10

being what I find myself, methinks Iam of all mortals the most fit to die."

e felt how much moreprecious was such a sentiment than that meanerkind which would have borne with theimperfection for her sake, and have been guilty oftreason to holy love by degrading its perfect ideato the level of the actual; and with her whole spiritshe prayed that, for a single moment, she mightsatisfy his highest and deepest conception.

l me all the risk we run,

rmonious effects upon our lives; but Iwould have you consider how trifling, incomparison, is the skill requisite to remove thislittle

Aminadab!"

highest cloud region and of theprofoundest mines; he had satisfied himself of thecauses that kindled and kept alive t

orrected what Nature left imperfect inher fairest work! Even Pygmalion, when _ hissculptured woman assumed life, felt not greaterecstasy than mine wil

Georgiana, youhave led me deeper than ever into the heart ofscience.

s inexorably resolved tocut or wrench it

eflect, my husband;for by all means I would have you recall thatdream.

eorgiana's lovers were wont to say that somefairy at her birth hour had laid her tiny hand uponthe infant's cheek,

f any shifting motion causedher to turn pale there was the mark again, acrimson stain upon the snow,

as being the visible mark ofearthly imperfection."

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washed the stain of acids fromhis fingers, and persuaded a beautiful woman tobecome his wife.

opens had made experience of aSpiritual affinity more attractive than anychemical one.

y wanderings, many yearsOf absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,And this green pastoral landscape, were to meMore dear, both for themselves and for thy sake!

she can so informThe mind that is within us, so impressWith quietness and beauty, and so feedWith lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor allThe dreary intercourse of daily

r, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catchThe language of my former heart, and readMy former pleasures in the shooting lightsOf thy wild eyes.

n nature and the language of the senseThe anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soulOf all my moral being

And so I dare to hope,Though changed, no doubt, from what I was whenfirs

e no slight or trivial influenceOn that best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered, act

in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the dinOf towns and cities, I have owed to them,In hours of weariness

is season, with their unripe fruits,

repose

William Wordsworth

Abbey’

Species: Chapter 14

hat we know of the lawsimpressed on matter by the Creator, t

impotent;

banish the belief of thecontinued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in theirstructure.

modified and adapted in the most perfect manner to eachother, by the continued preservation of individuals presenting mutual and slightly favourabledeviations of structure.

would be selected

ne with a lightgreyhound-like form, which pursues deer, and the other more bulky, with shorter legs, whichmore frequently attacks the shepherd's flocks

cub might be born with an innate tendency to pursuc certain kinds of prey.

hat man can improve the flectness of his greyhounds by careful andmethodical selection, or by that unconscious selection which results from each man trying tokeep the best dogs without any thought of modifying the

fleetness;

monstrosity.

for the shield may be asimportant for victory, as the sword or spear

Sexual Selectio

ocess of modification would be very slow,

act on and modity organic beings at any age, by the accumulation ofprofitable variations at that age, and by their inheritance at a corresponding age.

Can we wonder,then, that nature's productions should be far ‘truer’ in character than man's productions;

Under nature, the slightest difference of structure or constitution may well turn thericely-balanced scale in the struggle for life, and so be preserved.

profitable variationsoccurring; and unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing.

polymorphic.

ncreasing in number,we should have to give it some advantage over its competitors, or over the animals whichpreyed on it.

other animals

annually sorted

arn tempted to give one more instance

Batile within battle must ever be recurring with varying success; andyet in the long-run the forces are so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains uniform forlong periods of time, though assuredly the merest trifle would often give the victory to oneorganic being over another.

hese young trees had not been sown orplanted,

game animals

Seedlings, also, are destroyed in vast numbers by various enemies;

Eggs or very young animals seem generally to suffer most,

large number of eggs or seeds is to make upfor much destruction at some period of life: and this period in the great majority of cases is anearly one,

e see no great destruction falling on them, and we forget that thousandsare annually slaughtered for food, and that in a state of nature an equal number would havesornehow to be disposed of

when circumstances have been favourable to them during two or three followingseasons,