XL., line 9: the giants are, I think, those lawless, selfish, anti-social forces idealised by Machiavelli in his Principe, as Campanella read that treatisethe strong men and mighty ones of an impious and godless world.

At any rate he sang "Drinking," a song that lauds the wine-cup as chiefest of godless joys, and terminating in "drinking" thrice reiterated, of which each individual one finishes so much lower than it begins that the last one seems to expire in the bottomless pit.

It is a Government representing a civilisation which is purely material and godless.

A thousand cups of gold, In Judah deem'd divine Jehovah's vessels hold The godless Heathen's wine.

Thus did he live, a shining light in a corrupt and godless age, in spite of all the faults which modern critics have enlarged upon in their ambitious desire for novelties, or in their thoughtless or malignant desire?

It was in this godless, yet brilliant, age that Cleopatra appears upon the stage, having been born sixty-nine years before Christ,about a century before the new revolutionary religion was proclaimed in Judea.

" VIII COUNCIL OF THE GODLESS Someone exclaimed in an accent of alarm: "Number One!" With a concerted turning of startled heads, a hasty thrusting back of chairs, the gathering rose in involuntary deference.

It need not be added that he sympathized with Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution,"that immortal document which for rhetoric and passion has never been surpassed, and also for the brilliancy with which reverence for established institutions is upheld, and the disgust, hatred, and scorn uttered for the excesses which marked the godless revolutionists of the age.

"It's no concern of mine; but better tak' up wi' a godly meenister than a godless pawet," said the worthy warrior to himself as he marched down stairs.

So-called "secular" and godless alternatives may be offered; but their incongruity with the whole evolution of humanity from prehistoric animism to the higher Pantheism will make their doom short and sure.

A thousand cups of gold, In Judah deem'd divine Jehovah's vessels hold The godless heathen's wine!

" "'Twas I who composed that song, in praise of Margery's fried eggs, which is no profane and godless ballad.

And asked that pardonwhich he ne'er refused: For faults not his, for guilt and crimes Of godless men, and of rebellious times:

Mrs. Bolton scowled at them, feeling certain that they were godless persons;in which she was right.

A Godless thing.

"The godless hosts of pagans swarming o'er the Northern Sea," continued to arrive in fresh and fresh numbers from their inexhaustible Scandinavian breeding groundsfrom Norway, from Sweden, from Denmark, even, it is said, from Iceland.

" "To stay with you?" "Yes," reply I, thinking of our godless jokes about his wig and his false calves, and smiling gently to myself; "he was an old friend of father's.

The Zulus, about as 'godless' a people as possible, have a mythical first ancestor, Unkulunkulu, but he is 'beyond the reach of rites,' and is a centre of myths rather than of worship or of moral ideas.

[Footnote 24: In Mr. Carr's work, The Australian Race, reports of 'godless' natives are given, for instance, in the Mary River country and in Gippsland.

For long these natives were the joy of emancipated inquirers as the 'godless Andamanese.'

The Zulu godless ancestor-worship, then, by parity of reasoning, is, like their material culture, not an early but a late development.

To take an example: the Dinkas of the Upper Nile ('godless,' says Sir Samuel Baker) 'pay a very theoretical kind of homage to the all-powerful Being, dwelling in heaven, whence he sees all things.

Sapless doctrines doth rehearse, And the milk of falsehoods acrid, Burns our babe-lips like a curse, Cling we must to godless prophets, as the suckling to the nurse.

We are at last permitted to praise Gottfried unconditionally, though in his own time his book was certainly regarded as godless, and similar works, among them the Lancelot, were considered as dangerous.

"Then I knew," continued the Rabbi, "that our two guests were not of the community of Israel, but of the army of the godless, who had plotted to bring that corpse into the house by stealth so as to accuse us of child-murder, and stir up the people to plunder and murder us.