Then, with a sudden realization of the best thing to do, I backed up to the rocky wall on my right, and, holding the candle above my head, waitedgun in handcursing my foolhardy curiosity, for bringing me into such a strait.

"You ought to have waked me before," Jones said, when he had swept the scene, with sane realization in his eye.

The concepts supreme power (God or creative nature) and supreme cause (fate or providence) do not attain to that which we seek to think in them: that which has in it no opposition is an idea incapable of realization by man, but, nevertheless, a necessary ideal, the presupposition of all cognition (and volition), and the ground of all certitude.

That destiny seems to us brighter and more certain of realization to-day than ever before.

If we except two concepts which limit our knowledge, chaos and Godabsolute formlessness or chaos is an idea just as incapable of realization as absolute unity or deityevery actual cognition is a product of both factors, of the sensuous organization and of reason.

But when, in especially gifted men, appears the need common to all of us of seeking in the external world a corresponding realization for all the gifts with which Nature has endowed them, thereby raising their inner being to a self-relying whole, we may be assured of the development of a character in which both the present and the future world will rejoice.

Crabtree, and Sir Benjaminthose poor snakes that live but in the sunshine of your mirthmust be rippened by this hot-bed process of realization into asps or amphisbænas; and Mrs. CandourO!

I am far from saying that this scene would, in fact, have justified its amazing antecedents; but it would have shown a realization on the author's part that he must at any rate attempt some effect proportionate to the strain he had placed upon our credulity.

On this note, the realization at once of the delicate loveliness and of the unsubstantiality of the pastoral ideal, we may close our survey of its growth and blossoming in our dramatic literature, and before finally turning from the tradition which fascinated so many generations of European artists, pause for one moment to inquire of the critical expression it has received at the hands of more philosophical writers.

He faced this realization with deadly shame....