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... looked about at the picture of a home which calmed the convulsions of his physical nature, in which a phenomenon was taking place analogous to that w... ... explosions, tortures; analogous and visible signs of which may be seen in chemistry, when two antagonistic substances which science has united separa... ..., comparable only 35 Balzac to the terrible power of certain gases in the physical world, beings who combine with other beings, penetrate them as act... ... convinced of this. In one pas- sage he is seen as the precursor of modern chemistry by the announcement that the productions of organized nature are ... ...tes of instinct; just as every motion revealed the perfection of the man’s physical apparatus, the flexibility of his senses, and their fidelity when ... ...eeks to represent the effects of the moral nature was well as those of the physical nature, there are glo- rious men who express ideas in marble. The ... ...ter subtilizes. If such were the question, I cannot see why He who has, by physical relations, studded with stars at immea- surable distances the heav... ...spite of every obstacle. “All this being so, you believe in the results of Chemistry, although that science still knows no way of gauging the changes ...

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...at give one so vast a sense of the former. When I think of the progress of physical and mechanical science, of medicine and sanitation during the last... ... average efficiency, the power now available for human service, the merely physical increment, and compare it with anything that has ever been at man’... ... I knew, for example, that in science, whether it be subject XII., Organic Chemistry, or subject XVII., Ani- mal Physiology, when you blow into a glas... ...e in like a whirlwind. “This damned stuff all over me and the Agricultural Chemistry Class at six! Bah! AAAAAAH!” My mother would never learn not to a... ...at we called at first sociological discussion. I can still recall even the physical feeling of those first tentative talks. I remember them mostly as ... ...s in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, education and sociology. We could in fact ... ...want to get clear of those two places… . Always I renew my old feelings, a physical oppression, a sense of lowness and dampness almost exactly like th... ...omen and sex were as disregarded in these high affairs as, let us say, the chemistry of air or the will of the beasts in the fields; in ours the case ...

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...s scars upon his con- victions. And even now he felt that he was afflicted physically rather than mentally, that some protective padding of nerve-shea... ...od but of tissue paper. But this intellectual insecurity extended into his physical sensations. It affected his feeling in his skin, as if it were not... ...rom his wife. He knew he ought not to take these things, he knew they were physically and morally evil, but a tormenting craving drove him to them. Su... ...e delicate China tea Lady Ella procured him. 5 5 5 5 5 These doctrinal and physical anxieties and distresses were at their worst in the spring and ear... ...s your health. It is easy enough to say, as some do, that all ideas have a physical substratum; it is almost as easy to say with the Christian Scienti... ...y things one may leave to specialists: surgery, detailed admin- istration, chemistry, for example; but it is for every man to think his own philosophy...

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...ces in 1800, there were now hun- 18 The World Set Free dreds. And already Chemistry, which had been content with her atoms and molecules for the bett... ...e hints that might have led to the new departures of the twentieth-century chemistry), and every time it slipped un- observed through the professorial... ...ll through this time I had been working to the very limit of my mental and physical faculties, and my only moments of rest had been devoted to snatche... ...d from the sight of men, but in a number of countries, as the first urgent physical needs were met, there appeared a variety of personalities hav- ing... ...n. Your science is only be- ginning. It’s a subtler thing than physics and chemistry, and it takes longer to produce its miracles. And meanwhile a few...

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...eals. Birotteau, perfumer, did not know an iota of natural history, nor of chemistry. Though regarding Vauquelin as a great man, he thought him an exc... ... be mine!” He had vowed not to marry till he was forty, and kept his word. Physically, Ferdinand was a tall, slender young man, with a good figure and... ...hich underlie their vicissitudes, caused as they so often are by maladies? Physical evil, considered under the aspect of its moral ravages, examined a... ... on giving to their pictures my making them a shade too pensive, the vague physical languor of a young girl who has never left her mother’s side made ... ...eiving injury to the substances working within it, or, as we should say in chemistry, in liquefaction. Perhaps you are right; Dupuytren told me the oi... ...the causes of love, it is none the less true that all sympa- thy, moral or physical, is based upon calculations made ei- ther by the mind, or by senti... ...heir heads suffer from cerebral pains and affections. In great crises, the physical powers are attacked at the point where the indi- vidual temperamen...

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...own cour- age of the same rather screwed-up sort. He showed it not only in physical but in mental things. A boy named Prothero set a fashion of religi... ... to lead the noble life before he came bump against the fact that he was a physical cow- ard. He felt fear acutely. “Fear,” he wrote, “is the foremost... ... we were falling sideways, sideways… . “I was altogether out of breath and physically astonished, and I remember noting quite intelligently as we hit ... ... seems fated to shrivel up and pass alto- gether before the dry advance of physical science and mate- rial organization. He was full of unsatisfied cu... ...trifling spills and without damaging either of the horses he rode. And his physical self-respect increased. On his writing-desk appeared a few sheets ... ...may be now, it is must be—or, these con- federated metals, these things of chemistry and metallurgy, these explosives and mechanisms, will trample the...

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... must make most intelligent minds suppose that he had reached, morally and physically, that particular phase of satisfied passions and com- fortable h... ...their leathern skin almost a hide, and their nerves an appara- tus against physical pain almost as powerful as that of the 26 Sons of the Soil Russia... ...rchon. The old 40 Sons of the Soil man, surpassing the miracles of modern chemistry, knew too well how to resolve the tow into the all-benignant juic... ...o the harmonious coloring of the warm brown and ochre tints, indicative of physical health and strength. The clear brown eyes, which were bright and p... ...ive a last touch in one word about the moral qualities beneath this purely physical presentment, it may be said that while the steward, from the time ... ...moral being is actually more sensi- tive, more living as it were, than the physical being. The heart and the blood are less impressible than the nerve...

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...rely white skin. Though slightly resembling a girl disguised as a man, his physical strength was Herculean. His muscles had the suppleness and vigor o... ...this problem belong to the great question of races? to hitherto unobserved physical influences? Science may some day find the reason of this peculiari... ...ed the different holdings, whence they watched the process of this natural chemistry, known to them from child- hood. Others were playing with their w... ...t could be said, and as their day’s excursion, so filled with emotion, had physically tired them, they walked slowly, saying nothing. Suddenly, at the... ..., and are hardened. The reac- tion of the mental and moral system upon the physical is not enough to produce a mortal illness unless the physical syst... ...ve in that relation as in all others; it involves compatibility of temper, physical sympathies, harmonies of character, which make of that social nece...

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...the misapprehensions and misty perceptions of infancy; the first course of physical experiments is over, freedom of speech and motion have been attain... ...at which there is probably the most susceptibility to new impressions. The physical growth is over, and the almost exclusive craving for exercise and ... ...every Saxon, and is looked upon as the consummation of human invention and physical science. A great pole, nearly 80 feet high, is erected with a wood... ... course want to be reading history as well, and that involves a good deal; physical geography , geology, &c., yet one things helps another very much. ... ... school farms, allotments, the modern dairy, spade husbandry, agricultural chemistry. K, W , F , C, and G, and I have great talks; and as they all agr... ...Mrs. Somerville, I think, somewhere describes the na- ture of them in her “Physical Geography.” The wind veered and hauled about a point or two, but b...

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...er throat ached too much for her to wish to cry any more. She had not felt physically like this, since the day, seven years ago, when she and Mildred ... ...s nothing intellectual going on. There were the lectures, but they were on chemistry, for which Nuttie cared little. There were good solid books, and ... ... I think he was struck by having a creature with him to whom evil was like physical pain.’ ‘It will work,’ said Lady Ronnisglen. ‘Then,’ went on Mark,... ...cond Hannah More. It was a lan- guage he did not understand; and as to the physical unwhole- someness, he simply did not choose to believe it. She alm... ...y day. And, sad as this month had been, it had been such a rest from sheer physical toil that she had gained almost as much by it as the little one. T...

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...the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ear... ...ed as pure in Gopher Prairie. Whether by shock, disgust, joy of combat, or physical activity, all the party were freed from their years of social deco... ...some of the really stirring ideas that are springing up today—whether it’s chemistry or anthropology or labor problems—the things that are go- ing to ... ...n Street the more mean by comparison. The universal similarity—that is the physical expres- sion of the philosophy of dull safety. Nine-tenths of the ... ...udiciously, “Oh, I don’t want to be un- just to him. I believe he took his physical examination for military service. Got varicose veins—not bad, but ...

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...ir disciplined habits, both of mind and body , had endowed them with great physical perfection; and the eye of the veteran was apt to scan the fair pr... ... acutely eyeing the contents of Mohegan’ s basket, which Mr. Jones, in his physical ardor had transferred to the doctor, in order to hold himself one ... ...ected the specific differed, how- ever, greatly from the ordinary rules of chemistry; for instead of separating he afterward united the component part... ...char- acter, influenced as it is by education, by opportunity , and by the physical and moral conditions of the creature, my dear hearers,” he earnest... ...d-natured vanity . It was evident he prided him- self on the powers of the physical man, like all who have nothing better to boast of; and, stretching... ...e origi- nally intended for a very different sort of a man. He exerted his physical powers on the present occasion, with much dis- cretion; and, as he...

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...sperately, calling upon chance to aid him; for he was weak, incapable of a physical or mental contest, and this part of his settled creed that hu- man... ...or Camilla now, what sort of an entry will she make?’ Vittoria treated her physical weakness and ailments with this spirit of humour. ‘They may say th... ...f hours,’ Angelo said to him- self. He knew the effect of an exhibition of physical dexter- ity and strength upon a coward. The landlord’s daughter ca... ...a more studious forehead. The book he was constantly reading was a book of chemistry. He enter- tained Wilfrid with very strange talk. He spoke of the... ...toria’s underlip dropped sickly with the question, “Why?” Laura stated the physical necessity with Italian naivete. “If I can,” said Vittoria, and bli... ...Pericles in the recital of his tribula- tions. Being of a somewhat similar physical organization, she did it very laughably. Irma declared that Pericl...

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.... Indeed, for the poor fellow’s own sake, he should stay, for though he is physically as strong as a young megalosaur, and in the water or on the rock... ...f by exhibitions of his microscope and of some of the ornamental sports of chemistry. ‘The truth is,’ was the explanation privately dropped out to Eth... ...endeavour at imparting a new spring of life on this melancholy birth- day. Physically, the boy was better, and perhaps the new day had worn off somewh... ...he terrible time of real anticipation, were a marvel in that very point of physical resolution.’ ‘I could keep thoughts out then,’ he said; ‘I was mas... ...nt, Leonard. It is the temptation to us doctors to ascribe too much to the physical and too 397 Yo n g e little to the moral; and perhaps you would b...

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...out before her, showed the prostration of one who loses con- sciousness of physical being in the concentration of powers absorbed in a fixed idea: she... ...his body were lank and wasted, though ner- vous; and this discrepancy in a physical organization evi- dently once perfect puzzled the mind which endea... ...mind. What is genius but a long excess which squanders time and wealth and physical pow- ers, and leads more rapidly to a hospital than the worst of p... ...by so much 20 The Alkahest as a word a woman weighed down by the sense of physical disfigurement. No man knew better than he that a look, a word, suf... ... his enor- mous fortune as a “fermier-general” than for his discoveries in chemistry,—though later the great chemist was to eclipse the man of wealth.... ...him to distil wit and love exclu- 21 Balzac sively. Though he had studied chemistry with such ardor that Lavoisier commended him, he deserted science... ...use. It may be that man lives more by sentiment than by sense; perhaps the physical charm of beauty is limited, while the moral charm of a woman witho... ...sing her black hair, “I will tell you that I have returned to the study of chemistry, and I am the happiest man on earth.” 35 Balzac CHAPTER IV TWO Y... ...lzac CHAPTER IV TWO YEARS after the winter when Monsieur Claes returned to chemistry, the aspect of his house was changed. Whether it were that societ...

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..., or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These things, chemistry, surgery and so forth, we may take on the reputation of an expert... ...endeavour to make myself a little less obscure by a flagrant instance from physical things. Suppose some one began to talk seriously of a man seeing a... ...sible to the eye or cut in this manner. But any one at all conversant with physical conceptions would almost as soon think of killing the square root ... ...ce of the individual instance as one passes from mechanics and physics and chemistry through the biological sciences to eco- nomics and sociology, a g... ...milar to one another. Be it noted that, so far as the practical results of chemistry and physics go, it scarcely matters which assumption we adopt, th... ...enient. But this ceases to be true directly we emerge from the re- gion of chemistry and physics. In the biological sciences of the eighteenth century... ...ity belief, and my belief. Now what is called the scientific method in the physical sciences rests upon the ignoring of individualities; and like many... ...mit the enormous value, the wonder of its results in mechanics, in all the physical sciences, in chemistry, even in physiol- ogy,—but what is its valu... ... or controlled before the other sets come into play. Now in this matter of physical appetites I do not know whether to describe myself as a sensualist...

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...many examples in the lives of great men, appear to be merely the result of physical phenomena; to most biographers the head of a man of genius rises a... ...t all his powers into play, and in some degree lost con- sciousness of his physical existence, and lived on only by the remarkable energy of his menta... ...d the senior students—of philosophy, rhetoric, the higher mathematics, and chemistry. Each of these divisions had its own building, classrooms, and pl... ...ir cerebral tissue, and so degenerate the race, what deep-seated mischief, physical and moral, must result in schoolboys from the constant lack of air... ...on, but offended dignity spoke in the master through the strap. Of all the physical torments to which we were exposed, certainly the most acute was th... ...sharp 28 Louis Lambert noise breaking profound silence. Can an idea cause physical pain?—What do you say to that, eh?” When he gave utterance to such... ... be famous!—And you, too,” he added after a pause. “We will both study the Chemistry of the Will.” Noble soul! I recognized his superiority, though he... ... it not in trying to make gold that the alchemists unconsciously cre- ated chemistry? At the same time, Lambert, at a later period, studied comparativ...

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... I judged, then, that the children of that time were extremely precocious, physically at least, and I found afterwards abun- dant verification of my o... ... differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearin... ...vage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life. ‘I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, and those bi... ...and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure. Physical courage and the love of battle, for in- stance, are no great help—... ...no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man. And in a state of physical balance and secu- rity, power, intellectual as well as physical, w... ...broad staircase, we came to what may once have been a gallery of technical chemistry. And here I had not a little hope of useful discoveries. Except a...

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...ht say, of my agony. For I now suffered, for upwards of sixteen weeks, the physical anguish of hunger in. I various degrees of intensity, but as bitte... ...The first notice I had of any important change going on in this part of my physical economy was from the reawakening of a state of eye generally incid... ...lours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out by the fierce chemistry of my dreams into insufferable splendour that fretted my heart. 2... ...ture which had hitherto been so clear from all touch or taint of weakness (physically I mean) that I used to say of it, as the last Lord Orford said o... ... only it was, with one or two slight exceptions, that any circumstances of physical horror entered. All before had been moral and spiritual terrors. B... ...one mode of existence into another. The issue was not death, but a sort of physical regeneration; and I may add that ever since, at intervals, I have ...

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...dhood. What vanity could I have wounded,—I a child new-born? What moral or physical infirmity caused by mother’s cold- ness? Was I the child of duty, ... ...rde; I breathed an atmosphere of happiness. Has the moral nature, like the physical nature, its own electrical communications and its rapid changes of... ...ich were brown and prominent amid the general pallor of his skin, showed a physical structure which was likely to ensure him a long life. His hard, li... ...h ten years of emigration and ten years more of farm- life had changed his physical condition, he still retained cer- tain vestiges of nobility. The b... ...nd, he lived despoiled of everything, of his moral strength as well as his physical. Want of money made his name a burden. His unalterable opinions, h... ...ghed. “Enough for to-day, my dear abbe,” said the countess, “above all, no chemistry. Go for a ride on horseback, Jacques,” she added, letting her son...