The kernel of the myth according to this story is a kallisteion or beauty contest. When the gods were assembled at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Eris, Strife, threw among them a golden apple. J.E. Harrison, Mythology (1924) 89

The many devices, the electro-magnetic receivers, tape machines, coherers, syphon recorders and the thousand and one electrical machines produced at the time for these purposes, have practically all gone. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 13

Sound, the regular oscillation, and noise, the irregular oscillation, of the air, fare really the beginning and end of wireless as it is known to the public to-day. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 14

This means that we must have quite a big movement on a diaphragm of large size, and a large diaphragm is made to move by the electrical oscillation, itself not very accurate; naturally, if it is heavy, like a poker or anything else, it has a will of its own, and therefore it continues to move when the wireless oscillation has told it to stop. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 17

If a hero says “Good-bye” to a heroine with a kiss like a creeking board, in the middle of a twenty-reel drama, instead of improving upon the effect of your imagination, which tells you that it is real, and which acts the scene for you better than it can be shown in life or sound, it would be like putting up a blackboard across the screen with the words written upon it, “this is not real it is only a fake.” A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 28-9

So the greatest effects we shall soon see from wireless and sound are these: we shall be able to speak to people all over the world by relaying and a combination of land-line and radio; we shall easily be able to connect our office with a wireless station on the coast, radio across the Continent, and then connect by land-line to another office on the other side of the Atlantic. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 30-31

Remember that if I am addressing a man by wireless who is one hundred miles away, someone who is listening on a telephone will hear my voice before I am heard at the end of the big hall where I am speaking, because the velocity of sound is only 1100 feet per second, and wireless, like light, travels much faster. Sound can also be actually refracted. Just as the old-fashioned jeweller used a globe of water to concentrate the light upon his work, so will a collodion balloon filled with carbon dioxide, the ordinary gas product of average combustion, act as a lens for sound, which can be actually focussed by these means. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 20-21

The infinitesimal movements of this aluminium coil will reproduce speech up to about 40,000 periods per second in oscillatory speed, yet speech is well recognisable if all frequencies over 4,000 per second are gridded out. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 26

Unfortunately, from the business point of view, the long distance re-production effect is usually satisfactory even when re-broadcasted upon telephones, and for business purposes it is immaterial whether the voice that records the profit or loss is harsh or pleasant. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 29

It is the science of wireless that is beautiful; it is the possibilities that are wonderful; but to talk of pure sound and to judge of it by the human ear which varies after every meal, is like measuring the amount of current passing through an electric-light bulb by feeling its heat with the hand. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 33-4

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Supposing two people had been able to converse privately and with absolute secrecy from other “listeners in,” then we should not mind trusting all our messages to Radio. At present, what can be coded can be decoded, and we are not entranced by the idea of entrusting our pennies to the winds of Heaven and the vagaries of a thunderstorm. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 36-7

Now wireless, if I may apply the word here, is very like light in many ways; it is capable of refraction and shadow effects; it travels at the same speed, and if the wave-lengths of wireless could be sufficiently shortened to become visible a new, and possibly effective, method of transmitting wireless light and even power. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 48-9

It is more than likely that, in the far future, the proper study of oscillatory theories, the proper investigation of the spectrum only very partially explored by a few, will lead us to a better understanding of the nature of life, and will help us to appreciate the theories of electrical sonics. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 40

Vision at a distance is, therefore, very necessary as our inclination for travel decreases and its comfort increases. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 47

Vision at a distance is, therefore, very necessary as our inclination for travel decreases and its comfort increases. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 47

There was a time when we made appointments to meet our friends at the full of the moon, but now we say at “10 o'clock, and I can only give you two minutes.” A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 48

In the future we shall probably say, “Meet me at 10.2.1-5 sees., and do not keep me waiting.” To do this we must have radio sight. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 47-8

Now wireless, if I may apply the word here, is very like light in many ways; it is capable of refraction and shadow effects; it travels at the same speed, and if the wave-lengths of wireless could be sufficiently shortened to become visible we should probably find ourselves with a new, and possibly effective, method of transmitting wireless light and even power. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 48-9

There is a still more rapid method of transmitting a photograph: it is to allow the light from an ordinary lamp to pass through a spot upon the negative and then to a selenium cell. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 54

The electro-magnetic theory of light and the phenomena exhibited by the neon tube, present many opportunities. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 60

Another property, and a feature of great importance from the aspect of television, is that of retentivity. A.M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924) 56

If Mars, millions of years older than ourselves, has arrived at such a stage of advancement that it can think of transcending its own boundaries, it may make some attempt at communication, but the attempt might take the form which to us would be quite unrecognizable. Some observers thought that the persistent thunderstorms and magnetic disturbances experienced during the last opposition over wide areas were signs of such an attempt, but the coincidence may have been quite accidental. E.E. Fournier d'Albe, Quo vadimus (1925) 89-90

I determined, however, to confirm this intelligent forecast by consulting Tantalus himself. To consult the oracle of a dead hero, it was, I knew, only necessary to undergo the process of ‘incubation,’ a sort of camping out on his tomb, in the skin of a sacrificial beast; and fortunately the tomb of Tantalus had just been discovered in Phrygia by the archaeologists of the British School at Athens. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 8

I determined, however, to confirm this intelligent forecast by consulting Tantalus himself. To consult the oracle of a dead hero, it was, I knew, only necessary to undergo the process of ‘incubation,’ a sort of camping out on his tomb, in the skin of a sacrificial beast; and fortunately the tomb of Tantalus had just been discovered in Phrygia by the archaeologists of the British School at Athens. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 8

If we have improved on them [early Man], it has probably been only in such minor matters as resistance to the microbes of the many diseases which flourish among dense populations under slum conditions. Against that probability have to be set such certainties as that our toes and many of our muscles are being atrophied and that we are getting more liable to caries and baldness. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 21

In the first place. Language not only extends enormously the possibilities of co-operation and common action, but also renders possible the consolidation of customs and their preservation by oral tradition. In the next place, Writing enables a society to record all that it considers worth remembering. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 25-6

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Logic has been just examinable nonsense for over two thousand years. The present economic chaos in the world has been indirectly brought about by the policy adopted by the professors of economics forty or fifty years ago, to suit their own convenience. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 32

So soon as the professors had retired from it, every economic heresy and delusion, which had been exposed and uprooted by Adam Smith, at once revived and flourished. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 32

Nor was it so very long ago that, in order to save the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge, it had to be recast, because it had degenerated into an intellectual jig-saw puzzle, wholly unrelated to the applications of mathematics to the other sciences. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 133

It is probable that the social history of Iceland, settled as it was by unbridled individualists who would not brook any form of organized government, might throw some light on this process of taming the individual. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 37

So society, as at present organized, is always dying off at the lop, and proliferating at the bottom, of the social pyramid. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 44

The children of the rich are tempted to live for ‘society’ in the narrower sense, which means frittering away one's life on a round of vacuous amusement; and they rarely resist the temptation. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 46

Also babies brought up on the bottle, which has an irresistible attraction for microbes of all sorts, are apt to be less healthy than those nourished in the more primitive manner. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 45-6

Since the merry days of King Charles II, very few noble families of royal descent have been added to the peerage. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 51

Our civilization, therefore, carries within it the seeds of its own decay and destruction, and it does not require high prophetic gifts to predict the future of a race which goes the way marked out for it by such perversely suicidal institutions. It cannot improve, but must degenerate, and the only question would seem to be whether the decadence of Man will leave him viable as a biological species. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 51

We start with a pretty shrewd suspicion that certain types, say the feeble-minded, the sickly, the insane, are undesuable, and that no good can come of coddling and cultivating them: we similarly are pretty sure that certain other types, say the intelligent, healthy, and energetic, are inherently superior to the former. We try, therefore, to improve and increase the better types. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 63

I am much less inclined to put my trust in the advance of pharmacology than Mr Haldane and Mr Russell! Hitherto new drugs have only meant new vices, sometimes (like cocaine) of so fascinating a character as to distract the whole police force from their proper function of repressing crime. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 75

I am much less inclined to put my trust in the advance of pharmacology than Mr Haldane and Mr Russell! Hitherto new drugs have only meant new vices, sometimes (like cocaine) of so fascinating a character as to distract the whole police force from their proper function of repressing crime. F.C.S. Schiller, Tantalus (1924) 75

Until 1915 the soldier's business was to push or throw pieces of metal at the enemy. Various devices had been employed for throwing them fast or far, and some of them threw other pieces on arrival at their destination, thanks, in the main, to the genius of the unforgotten Major-General Shrapnel. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 5-6

It is true that early in the eighth century A.D. the appropriately named Syrian Callinicus had prolonged the life of the Eastern Roman Empire for another 750 years and saved a large part of Christendom from Mahommedan domination by his invention of “Greek fire,” an inflammable liquid which was, however, later superseded by gunpowder. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 6

For example, we can arrange carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms in patterns which constitute the molecules of sugar, glycerine, or alcohol at will. This is called chemical synthesis. We have been doing it by rule-of-thumb methods for thousands of years, and are just beginning to learn a little about it. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 17-8

Chemical warfare had been so far foreseen by statesmen that in 1907 the signatories of the Hague Conference agreed to renounce the use of projectiles the sole object of which was the diffusion of asphyxiating or harmful gases. They were thus debarred from using lachrymatory gas, the most humane weapon ever invented; but permitted to discharge gas from cylinders on the ground, an exceedingly cruel practice. This regulation was well meant, but the path to August, 1914, was paved with good intentions. In 1914 none of the great powers had made any preparation for poison-gas warfare, and it was not till April 22nd, 1915, more than eight months after the beginning of the war, that the Germans began its use J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 7

For, after a given area has been well sprayed with dichlorethyl sulphide from bursting shells for some time, it is death to occupy it without a mask, and the vapour may blister the skin, while anyone touching the ground will be certain of a very serious blister. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 26

The fourth group, of blistering gases, contains only one substance used during the war, dichlorethyl sulphide, or “mustard gas.” This is really a liquid, whose vapour is not only poisonous when breathed, but but blisters any part of the skin with which it comes into contact even. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 13

Mustard gas is a very different thing. It was never used to force a decision by breaking the enemy's lines, but to cause him casualties and deny him the use of ground. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 26

Chemical warfare had been so far foreseen by statesmen that in 1907 the signatories of the Hague Conference agreed to renounce the use of projectiles J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) ?7

It is, to my mind, far more probable that skin irritants may be discovered which are even more unpleasant than mustard gas. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 40

The Turks were seldom capable of organizing a combined attack by any number greater than a battalion, or a shoot by anything larger than a battery. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 51

We were threatened with gas bombs during the war, and certain London pharmacists made very large sums by the sale of alleged anti-gas masks. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 33

It could be, and was, urged at the time that as the carrying of these curious objects [alleged anti-gas masks] seemed to calm the civilian population in a moment of national emergency, they served a useful purpose. The same argument has been brought forward on behalf of amulets and other pious frauds sold in the name of religion. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 33

The insidiousness of hydrogen arsenide has, however, so alarmed chemists that a tradition persists of a man having been killed by a single bubble of it, while they are so afraid of smelling carbon monoxide that it is generally stated to be inodorous. Besides errors due to this cause, there were errors of arithmetic. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 54-5

On the nights of March 11th to March 14th, 1918, just before the great offensive of March 21st, the Germans fired 150,000 mustard gas shells into the villages and valleys of the Cambrai salient, an area of about twenty square miles, the same as that of central London. This caused 4,500 casualties, of whom only fifty died (all of them because they took off their respirators too soon). J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 55-6

But very soon familiarity bred contempt, or even liking, for aeroplanes dropped sheaves of pamphlets explaining how any soldier tired of the war could become a casualty without danger either of death or detection by allowing earth contaminated with mustard gas to touch the skin or the clothing. A good many wound-stripes were earned by this simple and up-to-date method, though, as we had the superiority in the air and the German soldiers were both more tired and more confiding than our own, the German casualties from this cause were probably still greater. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 61

But let us tell our civilian population before and not after they are attacked with blistering gases that the blisters produced are considerably less dangerous than measles. It was predicted during the war that the survivors of lung-irritant gases would get consumption, while those burned by mustard gas would develop cancer. This has not happened, but it is the sort of rumour that easily starts. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 61-2

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None of us was much the worse for the gas, or in any real danger, as we knew where to stop, but some had to go to bed for a few days, and I was very short of breath and incapable of running for a month or so. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 68-9

The success of our respirators was largely due to one man, Harrison, whose name is insufficiently known to his countrymen. He was an analytical chemist, and author of that admirable and too little read work Secret Remedies (published by the British Medical Association). J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 71

The success of our respirators was largely due to one man, Harrison, whose name is insufficiently known to his countrymen. He was an analytical chemist, and author of that admirable and too little read work Secret Remedies (published by the British Medical Association). J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 71

And, though I have seen a good many scientific experiments on animals, I have never seen one which, so far as concerns the pain given, I should object to having performed on myself. That this attitude is not unusual would appear from the following experiment described by the director of the Porton experimental ground, in which he wished to compare the effects of hydrocyanic (or prussic) acid gas on himself and a dog. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 75

The Germans would probably have tried, as they tried in 1914, to bring about a “Schlacht ohne Morgen,” a battle on reversed fronts modelled on Cannae. The fighting would probably have been about as severe as at Cannae, and men would have been fighting in close order, ten or twenty deep, along a hundred-mile front. No doubt it would have been over sooner, but the losses would probably have been just as great. J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 79

But I have no sympathy whatever for Mr. Facing-both-ways when he says that, though he is prepared on occasion to fight, he will not use these nasty new-fangled weapons. Of course I am not suggesting that we should violate or prepare to violate the Washington Agreement on this subject. I do, however, believe that we ought to denounce it at the earliest possible opportunity J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 82

Such are the facts about chemical warfare. They will not be believed because a belief in them would do violence to the sentiments of most people. They will not be promulgated, as there is no money to be made out of them. (Chemical manufacturers make both high explosive and mustard gas, and the former more easily.) J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus (1925) 83

The medical student seldom stops to consider the significance of the presence of the mammary gland in the male. … the gland is already present when the external sex-organs are indistinguishable. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 9-10

The male is the father of girls as well as of boys, it is therefore nevessary to provide both father and mother with a complete sexual outfit of either sex is to provide equal shares to the making of their progeny. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 12

The Mammary Apparatus of the Mammalia, with Introduction by Prof. J.P. Hill, London, 1920 C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 12note [reference]

Sir Arthur Keith in his delightful work Human Embryology and Morphology (4^th Ed. 1921) says … C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 11

We are led to consider that while we inherit through our non-human ancestors many of the features (more or less portrayed in our living non-human cousins), we also have had impressed upon us … the features of our immediate predecessors, namely our own parents. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 14-15

In such forms, for instance as the jellyfishes, the brain-skin layer does not differentiate into its two component parts … C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 17

The area is known as the embryonic shield, because it is on it that the embryo is afterwards laid down. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 17

Let there come someone who, with an angry face, speaks to it [an infant] in harsh tones. The smile disappears, the features contract into an expression of pain, and, beginning to cry, it turns away its head, and makes such movements of escape as are possible. What is the meaning of these facts Why does not the frown make it smile, and the mother's laugh make it weep ? C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 21-22

Let us now examine the same faculties, viz. sorrow and joy under different conditions, and see how the Brain machinery is called forth into action. The child trips over the door-mat and falls in its eagerness to reach the sweetmeat held up in the parent's hand at the other end of the room. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 24-5

Such must he distinguished from the monsters of medical science, which include many forms of arrest of development, and plural fusions. One genuine aberrant form of kitten has come under my notice, in which the face was long and pointed and the eyes open at birth. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 28n

Such must he distinguished from the monsters of medical science, which include many forms of arrest of development, and plural fusions. One genuine aberrant form of kitten has come under my notice, in which the face was long and pointed and the eyes open at birth. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 28n

… here Sir Francis Darwin draws a striking analogy in saying: “This is precisely paralleled by our own experience of memory, for it often happens that we cannot reproduce the last-learned verse of the poem without repeating the earlier part. [Each] verse [is] suggested by the previous one and acts as a stimulus for the next. The blurred and imperfect character of the ontogenetic version of the phylogenetic series may at least remind us of the tendency to abbreviate by omission what we have learnt by heart. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 30-1

This I say because the brain of a hawk may be well described as an eye-brain, the sense of sight being developed altogether out of proportion to the other senses C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 36

A friend staying on a visit, who has a passionate love for animals, took a great fancy to my pet, and this was strongly reciprocated. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 36

On approaching her coop with a hard black felt hat on my head, she [the kestrel] never lecognized me, and exhibited considerable dread of my presence I cannot say that I have quite discovered the reason, but it would appear that she conjured up in her mind a vague mental picture of something animate or otherwise which she had probably once upon a time seen and which frightened her C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 37

… in fact he [the male pigeon] showed distinctly that he did not intend to allow her [the female] to leave the nest until it was time for him to take on his share of incubation. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 39

The moment I heard this I placed the saucer of milk on the floor and thus after some difficulty I succeeded in developing a permanent double call-note in this domestic pet [cat]. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 41

The dog had acquired a permanent love for her master she longed for petting and caresses. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 43

In regard to the faculty of Imagination occurring in wild beasts confined behind prison bars, it is quite amazing to observe what may or may not present itself as a fetish I placed a reflex camera with a large telephoto lens close to a cage tenanted by a lion and a lioness. The camera was slung from my shoulders. I had hardly commenced to manipulate the instrument when the animals, becoming conscious of the uncanny stare of a Cyclopean monster (lens), instantly stampeded, performing a series of catherine-wheel actions round their den, C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 48

Let the hawk appear in swooping flight with destructive purport (and very cognisant indeed are the small birds of this movement); let the cat prowl and crouch along the hedgerow or dare to come out on the open with the glare of hunger in its flashing orbs, then the air becomes filled with the loud, ringing, defiant battle-cries and alarm-notes of blackbirds, thrushes, finches, buntings, warblers, and others, each and all of which boldly mount on wing to assail the feathered brigand, or fearlessty dash down, mob, and so harass the prowling feline that cover is gladly sought without further delay. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 60

The Grey (or Hooded) Crow robs eggs, steals nestlings, and attacks and pulls to pieces disabled creatures often much larger than itself. And yet (as I have seen and elsewhere described) a slender defenceless Redshank may forage amid the seaweed alongside his powerful companion without the least fear of being attacked. It is true that the Crow confines his attacks to nestlings and cripples albeit, considering the Crow's strength and opportunities of attack, it is remarkable with what amicableness the two species forage together to satisfy a common want. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 61

Far from this being the case, there are several hours of the day in which litte birds combine into a flock, and enjoy mobbing the Hawk … C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 62

From its leisured flight I am satisfied that the Hawk enjoys the sport and audacity of his minor companions, any one of which he can so easily pick up after a short pursuit when hunger calls his destroying instincts into action. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 63

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To return to consider the faculty of Imagination. I have made reference to this in the case of the Dog, and perhaps may be pardoned if I briefly do so again, as at this juncture such a reference will help us to lead up to what directly follows regarding the origin of the conception of the Supernatural. C.J. Patten, The Passing of the Phantoms (1925) 71-2

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Some modification of our present marriage-arrangement is inevitable, and concubinage seems quite a probable solution. D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 7

They do not teach mothercraft or physiology in finishing schools for gentlemen's daughters, and it is no part of the duty of gentlemen's wives to reproduce their kind. Perhaps there is comfort in that. D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 20

Quietly, and without mention of the fatal word “sex,” the spinster feminists, by emphasis on health and vigour, built up a generation of young women who were to be frank about other desires besides eating and drinking. D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 27

We are to blame in that we have not learned to bring forth our children without pain, those children whose brows bear the marks of obstetric instruments that were used to spare their mothers, and whose lips have not been laid to those inhuman mothers' breasts. D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 9

Professional people, scientists, artists, research workers, pure mathematicians, as well as skilled engineers, are, indeed, the salt of tlie earth, and the community that fails to produce them and give them scope is doomed in this modern world. D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 60

Frequently she is cursed or beaten by her husband for her fertility. D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 63

[suggested by context of need for limiting births] D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) [passim]

To feed an industrial population in a small island is a peculiar and special problem and one demanding expert care and advice. Food must come long distances and must “keep.” D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 66

We might, on grounds of science perhaps, advance this claim, urging that, since a female being needs one more chromosome for its creation than a male, it must, therefore, be of higher importance. D. Russell, Hypatia (1925) 71

It [psychology] has learnt to suspect, when people hurry over an incident in their recollection or think, because it was so trifling, that it slipped their memory that through the small orderly commonsense reclaimed garden of the mind has passed a trespasser from the hinterland. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) ?12

But with the rise of the Minoan culture we enter a world of vigorous fashion. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 44

This was a period when men took regularly to making up their complexions, and with a sharpened perception (which drove that typical Elizabethan, Sir John Harrington, with his almost Minoan figure, to reinvent the Minoan's masterpiece, the water-closet), evidently attaining a keener sense of surfaces, they decided that if they could not shave clean, as they evidently could not, if one may judge by Holbein's careful painting, they had better trim, starch, and iron their beards and moustaches. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 100

One stage further back we come across the giant antlerage of the Irish Elk and the tail of the Japanese cock, both secondary sexual characteristics of such exuberance as to endanger the survival of the animal on which they have grown. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 60

There is not room here to trace fully the strange progress from the hermaphroditic archaisms, through the somewhat too animal athleticism of Polycleitos to the Farnese Hercules. As art goes toward Rome, the age of beauty is advanced. Greece itself showed progressive signs of infantilism, turning from the intermediate sex to sexless youth, and finally to an inane exuberance of prize babies, the first froth of putti-cherub senile sentiment. The work of this amazing people at the height of their power reveals an obsession with the idea of youth which is already morbid. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 61

The same sterilising standard affected Roman costume: it developed, as it was bound to do, as military and official dress. The Greek could only advise “Take off your clothes and be nice and natural.” The Roman had no objection to watching a Greek exhibit himself, but he remained wrapped in his toga. The Greek, as Juvenal remarked, could turn himself into anything, changing even his sex, but the Roman felt he was a more stable type and was proud of his inadaptability. The toga does evolve a little: it becomes ‘contabulated,” it is true, but too soon it was the garment for official receptions—indeed many provincials only wore it at funerals. When something more active was required, you could always get into military dress. Augustus adopted that as his ordinary costume. A military court always feels that it is rather bad taste to be seen about in mufti. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 68-9

The common jacket has neither coat nor lapel. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 65

The edges of the robe are affected by flamboyance, twistly stiffly, and the pagoda-pattern, architecturally a common-sense construction, gives rise to a fantastic mitre. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 65

xxxx D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 67

… and into such models of decayed imperialism they breated the new energy, and the immense, heavy arcades such as Gundulf the Weeper … D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 70

xxxx D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 73

Nature had already given man such legs that the Psalmist had definitely, as a true Semite, to declare that their Maker did not delight in them. The tailor could only unveil as on him worked the imitative passion to translate in terms of his own art the invention of the architect. Tights sweep clean up to the apex, round the athletic arch of the thighs, to the trunk borne like a tower above the crossing. The tunic, to display this, the final organic architecture, shrinks into the jupon, a body-glove, and the build of man, though his flesh be covered to his palms and chin, is more visible to every eye than ever since the closing of the Gymnasium. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 86-7

So, under steadily flattening vaults, shallower mouldings—this is the period of the caveto—sparser, more mechanical ornament—witness the square and the ‘Tudor’ foliage—through windows of stiffened mullions and, by order of the specialised glazier, ever more inorganic design, man may be seen inventing this fantastic hat, the ‘Chaperon,’ whose fashionable points were remnants of its past uses, and to match it a gown, the houpelande, to accentuate his figure. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 90

Meanwhile our clothes, ordinary civvies, are still with us; and as all the conventional arts save this one have vanished, it remains with the unique anthropological interest which belonged to the Tasmanian. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 118

Meanwhile our clothes, ordinary civvies, are still with us; and as all the conventional arts save this one have vanished, it remains with the unique anthropological interest which belonged to the Tasmanian. D. Heard, Narcissus, an Anatomy of Clothes (1924) 118

[…] but, if all the world wanted them plain, they would be a stock line and you could have them for half the money. H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 18

Eating its heart confers peculiar qualities, notably fertility and the gift of tongues, and the draconite or precious stone which lies embedded in its forehead has incredible properties in the way of medicine and magic, but only if you catch the animal alive and remove the stone without otherwise injuring it. H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 27

Eating its heart confers peculiar qualities, notably fertility and the gift of tongues, and the draconite or precious stone which lies embedded in its forehead has incredible properties in the way of medicine and magic, but only if you catch the animal alive and remove the stone without otherwise injuring it. H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 27

George (a child of supernatural birth, induced by his mother's eating a peculiar fish) H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 36

and the means adopted by them for achieving their pious purpose may be the eating of fish, fruit, barleycorn, eggs, saltpetre or a dragon's heart. H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 41

The savage mother, finding herself with child, would attribute her condition not to a “commonplace event which took place perhaps many months before”, but to a recent thunderstorm or other striking phenomenon to which all could bear witness. H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 62

So Isis ruled alone for a while, and then in her own inimitable fashion, gave birth to the water-god Osiris, and between them in due course they produced the warrior Horus, who in the fullness of time became the avenger of Osiris, when the powers of darkness slew him. H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 62

xxxx H.F.S. Stokes, Perseus (1925) 66

“It is notoriously known through the universal world,” writes Caxton in his preface to Malory's Morte Darthur, “that there be nine worthy” kings and “the best that ever were,” and that the “first and chief of the three best Christian and worthy” is King Arthur. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 1

Arthur alone of “the Nine Worthies” had not had justice done to him in his own country. The other two Christian “worthies,” Charlemagne and Godfrey of Boulogne, had been adequately celebrated abroad, and Caxton himself had contributed to spread the latter's fame in England. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 8

The Latin Artôrius and the god's name, which we have treated as early Brythonic Artor, genitive Artoros, would equally yield in Welsh the familiar form Arthur. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 12

Then Arthur fought against them in those days, together with the kings of the Britons, but he himself was leader in the battles. The first battle was at the mouth of the river Glein; the second, third, fourth and fifth on the river Dubglas, in the region Linnuis; the sixth on the river Bassas; the seventh in the wood of Celidon, that is, Cat Coet Celidon; the eighth at the castle of Guinnion, when Arthur bore the image of the holy Virgin Mary on his shoulders, and when the pagans were put to flight and a great slaughter made of them through the might of our Lord Jesus Christ and of Holy Mary his mother. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 15

[original reading to be decoded] W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 00

When we come to examine the remaining chronicle literature of the pre-Norman period, we find no mention of Arthur's name, and nothing but the briefest allusion to the campaigns in which he is supposed to have fought.
30: The meagreness of the pre-Norman Arthurian records winch have been here reviewed stands in significant contrast to the amplitude and the range of the Arthurian matter which we find in the romantic productions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 27

When he (Vortimer) died, the British strength decayed, and all hope fled from them; and they would soon have perished altogether, had not Ambrosius, the sole survivor of the Romans, who became monarch after Vortigern, quelled the presumptuous barbarians by the powerful aid of the warlike Arthur. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 32

Later on in the same centurv, as Alanus de Insulis records, 2 belief in Arthur's “return” was so firmly held in the country districts of Brittany that a denial of it might have cost a man his life. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 31

When he (Arthur) was about to cross over the Alps, an envoy said unto him, ‘Modred, thy nephew, hath set thy crown upon his own head with the assistance of Cheldric, king of the English, and hath taken thy wife unto himself.’ W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 34

To begin once more with Caxton, the preface to the Morte Darthur states that of the “noble volumes made of Arthur and his noble knights” there “be many in Welsh.” Caxton was, here, either drawing upon his imagination or speaking with imperfect knowledge. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 37

In one poem the bard tells us that he “has been where Llacheu, the son of Arthur, was slain” and that is all; in another, evidently a late poem, we hear of “Arthur's host” or “retinue” (teulu Arthur); while in a stanza, already alluded to, in “The Songs of the Graves,” we are told that his grave is unknown. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 40

One of the exploits achieved in the course of these voyages was, apparently, the rape of a cauldron belonging to the King of Hades, and the whole poem, according to Rhys, “evidently deals with expeditions conducted by Arthur by sea to the realms of twilight and darkness.” W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 44

It refers to various expeditions made by Arthur and his men, in his ship Pridwen to certain mysterious regions oversea. Definite names enough are given to the different places visited—Caer Sidi, Caer Rigor, Caer Vandwy, and so on,—but the places themselves remain quite unidentified. “Three freights of Pridwen,” sings the bard, “were they who went with Arthur “on these expeditions;” seven alone were we who returned therefrom. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 43-4

xxxx W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 00

The last two poems here referred to have several features in common with what is, probably, the oldest of the Arthurian prose tales in Welsh,—the story of Kulhwch and Olwen. That story also tells of the rape of a cauldron, belonging not, indeed, to the King of Hades, but to one Diwrnach, who lived across the sea in Ireland; Arthur went in quest of it, with a small retinue, in his ship Pridwen, and brought it home “full of Irish money.” W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 44

The last two poems here referred to have several features in common with what is, probably, the oldest of the Arthurian prose tales in Welsh,—the story of Kulhwch and Olwen. That story also tells of the rape of a cauldron, belonging not, indeed, to the King of Hades, but to one Diwrnach, who lived across the sea in Ireland; Arthur went in quest of it, with a small retinue, in his ship Pridwen, and brought it home “full of Irish money.” W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 44

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The winning of Olwen,—hard enough though it appears in the story, which is mainly concerned with the long series of laborious tasks imposed upon Kulhwch as conditions of gaining her hand—is made “easy” through Arthur's intervention. The hero starts by duly presenting himself at “the gate of Arthur's palace,” and he there meets with the porter, Glewlwyd of the Mighty Grasp, who conveys to Arthur the news of his arrival. W. Lewis Jones, King Arthur in History and Legend (1914) 46

Tom Hill, Tubberneing, Gorey, writes: “Last June I had a cow with a TERRIBLY SWOLLEN BAG, quite twice normal size. I gave her three drenches of CATALINE (she was almost dry); the milk came back to her usual quantity, and is as good a cow as ever.—That's CATALINE!
P.S. I should like to shake hands with the clever inventor. I milk 80 Cows. Connacht Tribune (30 May 1925) 5/4

Houses, as well as every other commodity (including labour, rooms, etc.), have increased in value, and it is unfair to single them out as the only one article to be exempted from the law of supply and demand. It is amazing the short leases upon which houses were formerly built—and no tin-pot building either—like the would-be architects we see in Salthill to-day with the door up on the top of a stick. Michael Angelo or Sir Christopher Wren are only in the shade of the old apple tree. Connacht Tribune (16 May 1925) 7/5

Those old houses had no coloured paper slates like the new houses in Claddagh nor had they fake beaver-boards, sound-conducting walls to substitute a thing called plaster. A house is a jewel. If it is good, it is always worth its own money. If fake, it is unpledgeable—a dead loss. Some of those short leases to which I refer were even on lives. My mother's lease lapsed on the death of the Duke of Clarence and King Edward VII. Connacht Tribune (16 May 1925) 7/5

Those old houses had no coloured paper slates like the new houses in Claddagh nor had they fake beaver-boards, sound-conducting walls to substitute a thing called plaster. A house is a jewel. If it is good, it is always worth its own money. If fake, it is unpledgeable—a dead loss. Some of those short leases to which I refer were even on lives. My mother's lease lapsed on the death of the Duke of Clarence and King Edward VII. Connacht Tribune (16 May 1925) 7/5

Those old houses had no coloured paper slates like the new houses in Claddagh nor had they fake beaver-boards, sound-conducting walls to substitute a thing called plaster. A house is a jewel. If it is good, it is always worth its own money. If fake, it is unpledgeable—a dead loss. Some of those short leases to which I refer were even on lives. My mother's lease lapsed on the death of the Duke of Clarence and King Edward VII. Connacht Tribune (16 May 1925) 7/5

It would only be common justice to protect the townsmen of Ireland who permanently developed their little bits of the Terra Firma of their country as well as the ranchers who only temporarily developed theirs, at least to extend their leases in perpetuity or, better still, a right to purchase at a generous price, particularly when no State assistance is sought, the right to enjoy the product of their parent's brain, brawn and sweat which in many cases impregnates the railroad sleepers of America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and who spent their last shilling in building Ireland. Connacht Tribune (16 May 1925) 7/5