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...nge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pen... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For By Charlotte Mary Yonge CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPT... ...s as natural enemies, to be tolerated for one’s own good. There had been a development of the con- science and soul even in this first term that made ... ...eing a child again with her Bear of old times; and her superabundant life, energy, and fun amazed all, es- pecially by the contrast with her poor litt... ...re Labouring with thy secret load.” —Keble. THE EARLY SPRING brought a new development. Thekla, who attended classes at the High School, came home wit...

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... pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended author....

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...d to an obscure aspirant. T o my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown... ...able. She had no great talents, no marked traits of character, no peculiar development of feel- ing or taste which raised her one inch above the ordin... ...ght; rightly said, Miss Eyre; and, at this mo- ment, I am paving hell with energy.” “Sir?” “I am laying down good intentions, which I believe durable ... ...g perceived, brought my name under dis- cussion. Neither of them possessed energy or wit to belabour me soundly, but they insulted me as coarsely as t... ...of truth in the wildest fable. My cherished preserver, goodnight!” Strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look. “I am glad I happened to... ...road and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth,—all energy, decision, will,—were not beautiful, ac- cording to rule; but they w... ...e little chilling differences between us, which did not at all tend to the development of cordiality: in short, now that I was acknowledged his kinswo...

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...of my subject there are men not only of far greater intellectual power and energy than I, but who have devoted their whole lives to the sustained anal... ...s with numbers and abstract forms there have been definite phases of human development. There was with regard to number, the phase when man could bare... ... the residuum. So we have men and women abandoning their share in economic development, crushing the impulses and evading the complications that arise... ...st itself and fails to see the stupendous possibilities of deliberate self-development that lie open to it now. I see myself in life as part of a grea... ...hat we do not stand alone; we signify as parts of a universal and immortal development. Our separate selves are our charges, the talents of which much... ...stence, but in the world as we have it we are forced to engage much of our energy in scrambling for these preliminary necessities. Our problems of con... ...s dom being secured, one comes to the general disposition of one’s surplus energy. With regard to that I think that a very simple proposition follows ... ...such a new grouping. It would mean too much loss of time, too much loss of energy and attention, too much sacrifice of existing co-operations. New cul... ...izations would not ex- ceed the average man’s intellectual power and moral energy, just as there is scarcely an idea or an emotion that can be conveye...

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...ves and their proceedings explained. Because there is perceptible in these developments, quite over and above the desire to influence opinion, a very ... ...taliana. Banking in a country undergoing so rapid and vigorous an economic development as Italy is very different from the banking we simple English k... ... the other hand Italy is very close to Ger- many; she wants easy money for development, cheap coal, a market for various products. The case against th... ... to favour Ger- man enterprises and German political influence against the development of native Italian business; that their merchants are not bona-f... ...itting as far as humanly possible all mention of Napoleon’s campaigns. The development of war has depended largely upon two factors. One of these is i... ...ociations and the equestrian tradition, British technical intelligence and energy can do just as well as the French. Our problem with our army is not ... ...irable work of our aviators; what is still untellable in any detail is the energy and ability of the constructive and repairing branch upon whose effi... ... how any impartial person can deny that Father Bernard Vaughn is in mental energy, vigour of expression, richness of thought and variety of informatio... ...estion whether this common- sense course is inevitable. Suppose the mental energy left in Europe after the war is insufficient for such a constructive...

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...ponent of militarism or legalism, or the man who will first release atomic energy for human use, will walk along the Via Sacra as that Cicero or Giord... ...rea- soning power see into the years ahead in all such matters of material development. But it is not with the development of mechanical inven- tions ... ...rches, or of any other of the multitudinous Christian sects, the power and energy, the knowledge and ability, or even the goodwill needed to negotiate... ...affairs that will supply just the lacking elements that are needed for the development of a world peace. 13 H G Wells I would venture to suggest that... ...roducing changes in men’s minds that may presently give us both the needed energy and the needed organisation from which a world direction may develop... ...uickening of the general imagination by experience there are certain other developments in progress that point very clearly to a change under the pres... ... a sequence to, the deadlock war of 1915. But before dealing with this new development of the latter half of 1915 it is necessary to consider certain ... ...equence of the interruption of communications, the diversion of productive energy, the increased demand for many necessities by the Government and the... ...sh affairs mean in the aggre- gate enormous obstruction and waste of human energy. It does not alter the much graver fact, the fact that darkens all m...

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... that second effort guilty of much rash writing, but with a consid- erable development of formed opinion. In many matters I had shaped out at last a c... ...y, and entirely similar generations, until the Gods grew weary. Change and development were dammed back by invincible dams for ever. But the Modern Ut... ...i- vidualities may converge most effectually upon a compre- hensive onward development.” That is the first, most generalised difference between a Utop... ...ifferent skies to an altogether different destiny. There follows a curious development of this to anyone clearly impressed by the uniqueness and the u... ...totalers, Prohibitionists, and Haters and Persecutors of Innkeepers, their energy of reform awakens responsive notes in me, and to their species I loo... ...eck in the increase of the available stores of gold, or an increase in the energy ap- plied to social purposes, or a checking of the public security t... ...atever, but instead, force, and that value might be mea- sured in units of energy. An excellent development this, in theory, at any rate, of the gener... ... soon as it passes out of the experimental stage, the supply of electrical energy, just like drainage and the supply of water, will fall to the local ... ...ok-keeping will natu- rally be done most conveniently in units of physical energy. It is not incredible that the assessment of the various local admin...

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...tors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities, achieved it in spite of the disregard a... ...ersal destruction the slow growth of whole days of 13 H G Wells civilised development. I still remember the hatred and dis- gust of these catastrophe... ...nding them. They’ll eat your life up. Eat up your hours and your blood and energy! When those houses came to me, I ought to have sold them—or fled the... ... of life. 48 The New Machiavelli It was in that phase of an urban youth’s development, the phase of the cheap cigarette, that this thing happened. On... ...e, youngsters chiefly of the lower middle-class, are one of the odd social developments of the great suburban growths— unkindly critics, blind to the ... ...avelli He went over us as a motor-car goes over a dog. There was a sort of energy about him, a new sort of energy to us; we had never realised that an... ...he was, if not exact, at least indolent, with a strong disposition to save energy by sketching—even her handwriting showed that—while he was inexhaust... ...intimacy. The interim was full of the quality of work delayed, of time and energy wasted, of inse- cure precautions against scandal and exposure. Disa... ... afternoon of it. I was beginning now to long quite definitely for events. Energy was accumulating in me, and worrying me for an outlet. I found the T...

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...he chemist to get well forward with his discovery of the release of atomic energy. 1956—or for that matter 2056—may be none too late for that crowning... ...H G Wells S S S S Section 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 THE LATENT ENERGY of coal and the power of steam waited long on the verge of discovery... ... was the first-comer in the new powers, it was the beginning of the Age of Energy that was to close the long history of the Warring States. But for a ... ...visible and final and—lifeless— lifeless, is really a reservoir of immense energy. That is the most wonderful thing about all this work. A little whil... ...and gentlemen, in the atoms in this bottle there slumbers at least as much energy as we could get by burning a hundred and sixty tons of coal. If at a... ... were made and fantastic wages earned by all who were concerned in the new developments. This prosperity was not a little enhanced by the fact that in... ...hing, patenting, pre-empting, monopolising this or that feature of the new development, seeking to subdue this gi- gantic winged power to the purposes... ... sphere of training. That was the most generalised form of soldiering. The development of the theory of war had been for some decades but little assis... ...ructed that they could go over broken ground. In addition there were large developments of the engineer- ing arm, concerned with motor transport, moto...

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...ed thought in textual interpretation. That swamping came very early in the development of Christian- ity. The writer of St. John’s gospel appears stil... ... Eden or a Heaven, nor sit upon a throne. But current Christianity, modern developments of Islam, much Indian theological thought—that, for instance, ... ...at he has no longer the right to conceive theology as he conceives it. The development of his science has destroyed that right. He does not realise ho... ...n truth appear ever to have been concerned with that, and modern religious developments are certainly not under that preoccupation with the narrower s... ...es, “the knowledge that the goal of human life can be attained only by the development of a high degree of solidarity amongst men will restrain ac- tu... ...aps the fail- ures. Think of the Dinosaurs and the expenditure of creative energy that went to their differentiation and their well-nigh incredible ph... ...acy of God means at most a change in the spirit of their work, a refreshed energy, a clearer un- derstanding, a new zeal, a completer disregard of gai... ...the dis- pensation of God discovered. A barrister is usually a man of some energy and ambition, his honour is moulded by the traditions of an ancient ...

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...ern front, so many ships sunk, so much prop- erty destroyed, so much human energy wasted for ever upon mere destruction, and why to-morrow and the nex... ...factory permanent pacification of the world, 43 H.G. Wells but local self-development in these regions under honestly conceived international control... ...pon which our politicians and press still so largely subsist. The enormous development of war methods and war ma- terial within the last fifty years h... ... it had challenged. That curious system had been the natural and unplanned development of the political complications of the seventeenth and eighteent... ...hat may arise from it. Underlying both argu- ments is the fact that modern developments of mechanical science have brought the nations of Europe toget... ...e secure. And turning now to the other aspect of these consequences of the development of material science, it is too often as- sumed that this war is... ...s, have “captured” the local Conservative organization. They have time and energy to capture it, because they have no other interest in life ex- 74 I...

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...de the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers dis- cussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilisation progressed. One night (the firs... ...t heaviness and painfulness of move- ment due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth— above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense ... ... young pine trees and furze bushes, I stopped, panting, and waited further developments. The common round the sand pits was dotted with people, stand-... ...ly alive to the tremendous power of their antagonists, worked with furious energy. Every minute a fresh 57 H G Wells gun came into position until, be... ...Probably this is due to the relative strength of the earth’s gravitational energy.” On that last text their leader-writer expanded very comfortingly. ... ...on are undeniable, if one thinks of the tremendous waste of human time and energy occasioned by eating and the diges- tive process. Our bodies are hal... ...e Martians may be descended from beings not unlike ourselves, by a gradual development of brain and hands (the latter giving rise to the two bunches o... ...ure has never hit upon the wheel, or has preferred other expedients to its development. And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is inc... ...ion and the will of the Lord. Very likely you’ve seen the same thing. It’s energy in a gale of funk, and turned clean inside out. These cages will be ...

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...I’m a damned fool, sir. Because I’ve reservoirs and reservoirs of muscular energy, and one or other of them is always leaking. It’s a most interesting... ...er with a certain aloofness of manner that prom- ises ill for the orthodox development of the Adventure. He perceives he was too precipitate. But he f... ...as too precipitate. But he feels his honour is involved, and meditates the development of a new attack. And the girl? She is unawakened. Her motives a... ...sense, indeed, but the course of events at any rate is safe from any fresh developments through their activities for the next eight hours or more. The... ... anyhow. Juicy nuisance!” He jumped to his feet with a sudden awakening of energy, to proceed with his toilet. Then with a certain horror he remembere... ...h?” said Mr. Hoopdriver, catching at his moustache. This was an unexpected development. “I want to write, you see,” said the Young Lady in Grey, “to w... ...se his dark- ling eye, for he was a neat-minded little man in spite of his energy. The whole business—so near a capture—was horri- bly vexatious. Phip... ...els of another, that he had had the great- est difficulty in following the development of the business. He distinctly remembered himself walking acros...

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...ommissioner of the Department of Agriculture, asking your attention to the developments in that vital interest of the nation. When Congress assembled ... ... danger of committals on points which could be more safely left to further developments. Care has been taken to so shape the document as to avoid emb... ...rit, then, is due to the soldier. In this extraordinary war, extraordinary developments have manifested themselves, such as have not been seen in form... ...perous system which opens the way to all—gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress, and improvement of condition to all. No men living ar... ...at foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation, the asylum ... ...land, and to the sailors and soldiers engaged in the operations, for their energy and courage, which, under the blessing of Provi- dence, have been cr... ... with the return of domestic peace the country will be able to resume with energy and advantage its former high career of commerce and civilization. O... ...of new lines of ocean mail steamships and the policy he recommends for the development of increased commercial intercourse with adjacent and neighbori... ...ed man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance, and energy, and daring to the same end. Grant that he desires the elective fra...

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...s of Indiana, the mother had died, and a stepmother, a woman of thrift and energy, had taken charge of the children, the shaggy-headed, ragged, bare- ... ...fully to trim his expressions in order to save paper. His language had the energy of honest direct- ness and he was a master of logical lucidity. He l... ...ng them, and the many kindnesses they had done him. Although in his mental development he had risen far above them, he never looked down upon them. Ho... ...ormally authorized “the use of his name.” The matter was managed with such energy and excellent judgment that, in the convention, he had not only the ... ...dge into the field as its can- didate. After a campaign conducted with the energy of genuine enthusiasm on the antislavery side the united Republicans... ...intensely practical mind, vehement impulses, fierce positiveness, ruthless energy, immense working power, lofty patriotism, and severest devotion to d... ...pinion, entertained by many, that the President had really anticipated the development of popular feeling. The cry that the war for the Union had been... ...orces; but that, as the great commanders had to be evolved slowly from the developments of the war, constant suc- cess could not be counted upon, and ... ...years was to qualify him for the great des- tiny that awaited him, and the development of those men- tal faculties and moral endowments which, by the ...

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...they showed you a fashion-plate,” said the tailor,” but this is our modern development See here.” The little figure repeated its evolutions, but in a ... ...d the whole of this gigantic city was convulsed by their struggle. Frantic development of his world! “I do not understand,” he cried. “I do not unders... ...thed by their advice in cold water, he felt a rapid return of interest and energy, and was presently able and willing to accompany Ostrog through seve... ...iful; below was hurry, excitement, conflict- ing orders, pauses, spasmodic developments of organisation, a vast ascending clamour and confusion. Befor... ... whirling shadows and stored inces- 108 When the Sleeper Wakes santly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. A... ...he city had swallowed up humanity; man had entered upon a new stage in his development. First had come the nomad, the hunter, then had followed the ag... ...and famine, in the darkest hours of ear- lier history. His own part in the development of this time he now knew clearly enough. Through the successive... ...ng hall in Northumberland Avenue. That interested him very greatly. By the energy and thought of Asano he was able to view this place from a little sc... ...eans of a lottery wheel. These business activities were prosecuted with an energy that readily passed into violence, and Graham approaching a dense cr...

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... the times were controversial; and usually it happens—that, where too much energy is carried into the controversies or intellectual part of religion, ... ...cation. T owards these great objects the Scot- tish clergy had worked with energy and with little distur- bance to their unanimity. Confidence was uni... ...ok, molest, and insult the true church for ever. Even this brief period of development would have been briefer, had not the law courts interposed many... ..., and so elaborately careful in his details as to extort admiration of his energy and of his patience in research. But the reason for which we notice ... ...eory (that is, of general comprehensive survey) applied to the po- litical development of nations, and accounting for the great *The History of Charle... ...ad of a new era in European history, and of a great movement in the social development of nations; that each laid the foundations for a new dynasty in... ...le demonstrations; and, without the counsels of a Charlemagne, and with an energy of action inferior to his, it is probable that she would have experi... ...ers had themselves kindled the popular excitement which provoked this vast development of martial power amongst the French, and first brought their ow... ...ancient habits and training, encouraged and effectually or- ganized by the energy of the aspiring mayors of the palace, or great lieutenants of the Me...

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... a whit too large in proportion with the spacious plan of Zenobia’s entire development. It did one good to see a fine intellect (as hers really was, a... ...line nature, at whatever ep och of life; or, if there be, a fine and rare development of char acter might reasonably be looked for from the youth wh... ... intellect. It was only the lack of a fitter avenue that drove her to seek development in literature. She was made (among a thousand other things that... ...n our own than when robust health gives us a repellent and self defensive energy. Zenobia’s sphere, I imagine, impressed it 36 The Blithedale Roman... ...ed in my shirtsleeves, and with the sleeves rolled up, to show my muscular development. What stories will be rife among them about our mighty strength... ...What else could possibly be done for him? How else could he be imbued with energy enough to hope for a happier state hereafter? How else be inspired t... ...t showed largely, was superfi cial, like all his other manifestations and developments; he did not so truly keep this noble creature in his heart, as... ...me! Tell him that I’ll haunt him! “—She spoke these words with the wildest energy.—”And give him—no, give Priscilla—this!” Thus saying, she took the j... ...he tears gushed into my eyes, and I forgave him; for I remembered the wild energy, the passionate shriek, with which Zenobia had spoken those words, “...

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...antage. This occurred on the first day of my sojourn, when my play-writing energy was at its height and I regarded the inci- dent simply as an annoyin... ...at as a sentimental comic character he might serve a useful purpose in the development of my plot. The third day he called upon me. For a time I was p... ...but “opaque” conveys the idea—to “all forms of radiant en- ergy.” “Radiant energy,” he made me understand, was any- thing like light or heat, or those... ...m centres, and act on bodies at a distance, whence comes the term “radiant energy.” Now almost all substances are opaque to some form or other of radi... ...gy.” Now almost all substances are opaque to some form or other of radiant energy. Glass, for example, is transparent to light, but much less so to he... ...not only 13 H. G . Wells opaque to light and heat, but also to electrical energy, which passes through both iodine solution and glass almost as thoug... ...me into sight—agape. For a time I stood there, too overwhelmed by this new development to think of the people. At first I was too stunned to see the t... ...ed air, consequent exaggera- tion of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky -was exciting my... ...n the Grand Lunar, into whose presence I am finally to come. The unlimited development of the minds of the intellectual class is rendered possible by ...

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...ime will come when we shall correct our moods, get down to our reserves of energy by their help, suspend fatigue, put off sleep during long spells of ... ...ck of en- ergy—” “Lack of balance,” corrected the doctor. “You are wasting energy upon internal friction. “But isn’t that inevitable? No machine is pe... ...her class. So with my- self; there is a natural and necessary high rate of energy waste. Moods of apathy and indolence are natural to me. (Damn that o... ...,” he considered. “Y ou wanted some such blow-off as this.” “Did I? “ “The energy you have! That car must be somebody’s whip- ping boy.” “The devil it... ...nd very laborious work. I’ve travelled much. I’ve organized great business developments. Y ou might think that my time has been fairly well filled wit... ... whatever worth fighting for. Whatever justifies effort, whatever restores energy is hidden in women ….” “An access of sex,” said Dr. Martineau. “ Thi... ...He had done his utmost to keep Martin Leeds out of his head throughout the development of this affair. Now in an unruly and determined way that was ex...

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...cience. It was afflicting him with a general malaise, it was affecting his energy, his temper, all the balance and comfort of his nerves. All day he w... ...the first time the day betrayed a softness and touched this scene of black energy to gold. All late afternoons are beautiful, whatever the day has bee... ... and a new person masquer- ades as yesterday’s child until some unexpected development betrays the cheat. The bishop had still to learn this perennial... ...ans, these vigils and crammings and writings down, were using all and more energy than the bishop could well spare, he was also doing his quiet utmost... ...erature of church history and the controversies aris- ing out of doctrinal development became the employment of the bishop’s leisure and a commanding ... ...rth, who had acquired a consider- able amount of ungentlemanly science and energy in Ger- many and German Switzerland. But the Fellows element was goo... ...tic-looking youngster from Eton, had also come to the theological stage of development. She did how- ever weigh the possibilities of too liberal opini... ...he bishop sat at the table resting his arm upon it and await- ing the next development of this unsatisfactory interview. He was on the verge of asking... ...ly situation, if a little sadly, at any rate with the courage of practical energy. It was she who stood in one ungainly house after another and scheme...