Catholic World Volume 23 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ..."All affairs, when they become ordinary, are apt to become matters of business; and business matters arc--well, we need not say what." But to return to the " sixes." There are six fundamental motors of. human passions. There are six infinities--namely, dcific spirit, soul spirit, matter, space, duration, diversity. There are six organs of sense (the old notion that there were but five is exploded)--sensation, tempeiature, taste, smell, hearing, sight. There are six crystallizations--monometric, dimetric, trimetric, monoclinic, triclinic, and hexagonal. There are six religious societies--Adam, Adam and Eve, Patriarchy, Israel in Egypt, Israel in Palestine, the Christian Church. It follows as a matter of course that there must be six social units; and in fact, if it were worth while, we could prove that there must be ten or twenty. There is no unit in which Mr. Wright so much delights as the Precinct. The real cause of the American civil war he has discovered to have been a neglect of Precinct by both the North and the South; and it is quite probable, we think, there is no social or political problem which may not ultimately be solved in the same felicitous and satisfactory manner. Genius is manifested--at least this is, we believe, the opinion of Mr. Emerson--quite as strikingly in quotation as in original composition, and we respectfully call the attention of the philosopher of Concord to Mr. Wright as a confirmatory example of this law of mind. Many a household will find food for thought in the following citation: "Family miffs are a grand institution for giving needful repose and after-exhilaration to overtasked affection." And this oilier will be interesting to politicians: "It is to the criminal...