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A Singular Life
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
出版
Grosset & Dunlap
, 1894
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1508840415
9781508840411
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=X8wOAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
There were seven of them at the table that day, and they were talking about heredity. At least they were talking about whatever stood for heredity at the date of our history. The word had penetrated to religious circles at the time; but it was still interpreted with a free personal translation. Perhaps there is no greater curiosity of its kind than that of a group of theological students (chiefly in their junior year) discussing science. It is not certain that the tendencies of the Seminary club dinner are not in themselves materialistic. The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection. That the thing we have not is the thing we would have, neither you nor I nor the junior may deny; and it is quite probable that these young men set an undue value upon a game dinner and entrées, which was not without its reactionary effect upon their philosophy.