| 单词 | unreason |
| 例句 | “The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,” he said, “was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws—this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Eventually the work broke the crippled—it always did—and those in a state of unreason were sold off cheap or took a knife to their own throats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Preying on economic depression and collective fatigue after the first world war, these intellectuals finally succeeded in imbuing French society and its institutions with what he calls “unreason”. Turning dark 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z They understand its baffling flights into unreason; they see past the wild connections to the human frailty that inspires them. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But people who are willfully ignorant, or who embrace unreason because it serves their immediate advantage, are stupid in a way worth deploring with all the available tools of discourse, including humor. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z This intellectual tour de force, which will be published next month, blends psychology, biology, economics, philosophy and religion to show how centuries of unreason gird today’s right-wing populism. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The rough-cut wood, the asymmetrical stacking, create an inner tension; while the work suggests architecture, its prickly irregularity communicates unreason and rage. The best of Louise Bourgeois 2010-06-01T14:06:00Z Instead, it turns her into someone “feral, like an addict, all stealth and unreason.” A Young Wife Toys With Adultery 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z While Newton and Locke were ushering in an Age of Reason in Europe, over in America unreason was taking new seductive forms. Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z An empire that astonishes the world with the magnificence of its scientific research laboratories, but one never safe from frequent uprisings in the rebel provinces of unreason. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z The report spoke to the disavowal of the principle on which the country was founded, but it didn’t attract much notice in the press or slow down the retreat into the provinces of unreason. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z Religion, he argues, is immoral in itself and in its consequences: a set of life-threatening delusions that no one would succumb to unless they had been debauched by the forces of unreason. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z “In childish hope, unreason. Begging your husband Breathe! Don’t stop breathing!” Review | Joyce Carol Oates captures the wobbly reality of widowhood in ‘Breathe’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Looking to the future: the Republican electorate is unfortunately telling us that they are in love not just with one man but with the politics of hate and unreason that he represents. The GOP's surrender to Donald Trump is now complete 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z They are the voices of reason against implacable unreason. Review: Dustin H. Chinn's new Chance Theater comedy serves up the cultural politics of food 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z So my question is not “Is divorce reasonable?” but rather, “Are we susceptible to the unreason that triggered war once before?” Take threats of ‘National Divorce’ seriously 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z But nothing about politics is normal or rational these days, and victory over the forces of unreason and destruction is not guaranteed. OPEC's October Surprise: Higher gas prices a boon to Putin, the Saudis — and Republicans 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Putin has reminded humankind that the idiom fascism knows best is untruth so grotesque it begets unreason. Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Fascists calling other people “fascists” is fascism taken to its illogical extreme as a cult of unreason. Opinion | We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z On issues such as vaccines, climate change and corporate taxation, a host of individual and institutional actors now seem dogmatically chained to unreason as they pursue real or illusory power. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z With its new abortion law, sending women back to the back alley and encouraging Stasi-like participation from the citizenry, Texas now becomes the capital of American unreason. Opinion | Drowning Our Future in the Past 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z This is what I wanted to know before sending my students to the realms of unreason. Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame on the "spontaneous fluctuations" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z “It’s really a question of reason or unreason. And Saxony needs to become the land of reason again,” Dulig added. German states tighten virus rules as pandemic battle falters 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z There she witnessed the intoxicating power of "unreason" and its unbreakable hold over too many Americans: When worlds collide: Can reality finally defeat the Trumpian delusion? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Heller, is such a travesty of historical unreason. Perspective | The framers of the Constitution didn’t worry about ‘originalism’ 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The right’s reign of unreason long predates his presidency. Opinion | Foes of science faced ridicule at the Scopes trial. We’re paying the price 95 years later. 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z But any attention given to the House’s shock troops of inanity and unreason is misdirected. Opinion | Senate Republicans must weigh the full cost of complicity 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But the unreason hits a new peak in the Trump Energy Department’s campaign to save old, outdated, energy-wasting lightbulbs, to the benefit of no one except a handful of lightbulb manufacturers. Opinion | Trump’s irrational war on environmental rules just outdid itself 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z She consistently responds, though rarely so topically, to widespread alarms of social, political, and spiritual disorder—the daily unreason, the falling apart. Dana Schutz’s Paintings Wring Beauty from Worldwide Calamity 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The Prime Minister may not communicate well, but many people see her as a reasonable person caught in a situation of great unreason. Theresa May’s Impossible Choice 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But I fear that we will respond to the adversity that climate change brings with hate, fear, and unreason. James Hansen’s legacy: Scientists reflect on climate change in 1988, 2018, and 2048 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z He was “convinced that President Johnson’s always large eccentricities had taken a huge leap into unreason,” but other longtime White House insiders, including former secretary of state Dean Rusk, derided such speculation as “nonsense.” Richard N. Goodwin, ‘supreme generalist’ who was top aide to JFK and LBJ, dies at 86 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Such forces of unreason are emboldened if they encounter inaction and silence; they thrive if scientific myths, misconceptions and disinformation are repeated without being challenged. Speaking Science to Power 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s not that there is some quantum of unreason that needs an outlet when reason’s power grows. Opinion | The Edges of Reason 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Small wonder some white people retreat into bunkers of unreason and fear. White supremacists at the table 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z At some point, hope for a new and improved Trump deteriorates into unreason. Opinion | The GOP’s hard, messy options for destroying Trumpism 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Accepting the expert consensus is a matter of reason vs. unreason. Opinion | Scott Pruitt demonstrates what climate denial sounds like 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In a time of mad unreason, where high power babbles and stammers, the cautious eloquence of our courts affirms their independence. Sanity from the Courts on Gun Control in a Time of Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z What Ross calls the edges of reason are really the depths of unreason. Opinion | The Edges of Reason 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z It has become the central tenet of their appeal to unreason. Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Thus, a priori distinctions between human and non-human, reason and unreason, civilisation and barbarism underpinned the modern ideals of freedom and democracy from the time they were formulated. The Divided States: Trump's inauguration and how democracy has failed 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z You want to see where the rule of unreason, prejudice and savagery leads? Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z And yet modern history provides enormous evidence for the persistent power of unreason. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The world of unreason that Ross appears to be advocating has a long record of promoting ignorance, slavery, tyranny, death and human suffering. Opinion | The Edges of Reason 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z When you define those who disagree with you not just as political opponents but satanic acolytes of darkness, you are committed to a politics of unreason, intolerance and hate. Marina Abramovic: the latest target in the rightwing culture wars 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The result is a toxic mix of unreason, revolutionary fervor and perceived grievance. After tensions explode in Nevada, it’s time for Sanders to be honest with his supporters 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z He was complaining about political unreason and the credulity of a majority — even of educated people — precisely 300 years ago. Republicans really fall for this nonsense: The GOP is the party of stupid, but its voters are the deluded ones 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s campaign is based on suspicion and unreason. Republican leaders’ silence on Trump is inexcusable — and irrational 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z He is one reason the school is a rare exception to the rule of unreason on U.S. campuses, where freedom of speech is under siege. American higher education is a house divided 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, called it a provocation and said: “As long as I am president of a nation of free and equal citizens, justice will prevail over unreason.” Catalan 'independence declaration' puts region on course for Madrid showdown 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The novel is, I think, about reason and unreason. Salman Rushdie: ‘It might be the funniest of my novels’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Good enough that the Republicans tip into unreason, you might think. Donald Trump’s biggest crime is his honesty: How he exposes the sickening rot at the core of the GOP 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Discerning a “reason” for unreason, for the hatred of anti-Semitism, is as vexed as it ever was. The Shadow of Anti-Semitism in France 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms,” he wrote. Religion is a “medieval form of unreason”: Salman Rushdie responds to Paris attacks 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms,” Rushie wrote. Salman Rushdie Says 'I Stand With Charlie Hebdo' After Paris Attack 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z One aspect of unreason is imagination and dream. Salman Rushdie: ‘It might be the funniest of my novels’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z If the reasonable side regularly makes concessions to unreason, the extremists win. Obama keeps bailing Boehner out 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Certainly unreason can be tempered by the hard-won practices of civilisation, but civilisation will always be a precarious achievement. The child-like faith in reason 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The fact of his lineage cuts straight through to the unreason that props up the monarchy. Royal Contradiction: U.K. Greets New Commoner King 2013-07-25T13:20:28Z The risk statistician David Spiegelhalter regularly points to some of the madder outcomes of this unreason. From Greenland to Mount Everest, this is the season of reckless jaunts 2013-05-02T20:00:03Z This picture tempts us to make common cause with a dark history of prejudice and unreason. Rich Ricci and the pernicious symbolism of the greedy banker 2013-04-19T11:05:25Z On closer inspection, the political basis for this ideological victory, won for the supposed reason of austerity over the unreason of public profligacy, also looks fragile. Europe's austerity hawks are celebrating a triumph over peanuts 2013-02-11T07:00:12Z There's something deliciously comic in the spectacle of people railing against unreason being themselves so obviously in the grip of a childish delusion. The child-like faith in reason 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Bork remained bitter for years and conservatives regarded him as a martyr to liberal activism and unreason, and used him as a rallying cry in subsequent battles. Conservative jurist Robert Bork dies at 85 2012-12-19T15:39:24Z Thanks to Arthur Miller’s Crucible, the Salem witch trials have become the iconic image of unreason, mass delusion, and political score settling. BBC Critics Cry Witch Hunt 2012-11-14T09:45:00Z Perhaps his Livestrong foundation, and what remains of his tarnished brand, can thus survive in some netherworld of unreason. How Lance Armstrong strong-armed cycling 2012-08-24T05:10:00Z “The victory we seek at Stanford is not like a military victory; it is a victory of reason and the examined life over unreason and the tyranny of coercion.” Richard W. Lyman, Ex-President of Stanford University, Dies at 88 2012-05-30T04:09:02Z Although his nature was healthy and manly, he had a feminine craving for affection, and an almost womanly unreason in the exactions he made on his friends. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z Constance quite well knew that this hysterical unreason in her stepmother would pass, and that it was not more worth heeding than the wind that whistled around the ship's stripped masts. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z So they had quickly resigned to the inevitable, and left him to the rock of unreason, the Reverend N. J. McCarthy. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z Psychologically, it, like unreason, is a compound of elements: but in the case of reason the composition is unendingly and infinitely consistent; it is knowledge completely unified. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The old man in his bitterness and unreason was not to be moved--at any rate as yet. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z In questions relating to the inspired Word, mere speculation and unreason have no place. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z The thing begins in our fantasies of honour, precedence, patriotism, or by whatever name, big or small, we choose to christen the tiny germ of unreason. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z What unreason it is that so splendid a being as Hyperion should be deposed! Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z It was a month or more before Isadore surrendered to unreason. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z In a whirl of frantic unreason he unsheathed his sword, and reckless now of consequences to himself, battled towards the marquise through the group of cowering women. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z All of which shows the unreason- ableness of a Pagan, and the natural depravity of human nature. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Yea, more, from such a standpoint it is utter unreason, the height of folly, to doubt for an instant, for immanent and central in the light of Reason lies the solemn fact of man's selfhood. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z But as soon as he prides himself at all on his wealth, our feelings are mingled with an almost compassionate surprise at such a high degree of human unreason. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Gabriel.Spirit of scorn, I might say, of unreason! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Every revolution is the child of the passions--unreason and rage--and not of love. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Making the universe arise out of pure reason, out of the logical idea, developing through the dialectical process with a consciousness of freedom, it yet concludes in unreason and an obstinate determinism. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z Though Porter was not strong enough to resume his business burdens, he was the better able in his abundant leisure to quibble over domestic and social matters with an invalid's unreason. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Religion has above all helped to make men think of others who are so often hurt by their unreason rather than themselves, and has helped to keep them from self-indulgence. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z In the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-reasonableness was forced to surrender. Britain must resist Tea Party thinking 2011-08-01T21:00:00Z With a curious, obstinate unreason she knew Bess had died like all the rest; yet she had been so sure Bess could not die. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z It is certain that, without poetic sensibility, the most learned critic will ever find that the utmost force of his logic in these matters will not lead to reason, but to unreason. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Nay," said Herr Dremmel, immediately brought to reason by his wife's support of his unreason, "but we must call. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z That saintly soul came back to his memory in its beauty and tenderness alone, and its heat and uncontrollable unreason were forgotten. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z The political credibility of the world's beacon of democracy has failed in the face of an insurgency of unreason. Britain must resist Tea Party thinking 2011-08-01T21:00:00Z But she glanced down into such a forlorn, wistful face, that her heart was touched, a not unkindly heart, though it had been bitter and obdurate with the unreason of youth. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z He scales the highest peaks, pursues by preference the nymphs that flee from him, loves violence and unreason, and finally, thinking to fly, falls headlong, like Icarus, and perishes. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Seen in the hell-light of his renewed bondage, his plan for that one little halcyon week ahead seems to him to have been a monstrosity of folly and unreason. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z But the violent unreason of the Shining Path made Peru a different case, and toward the end, many say, the M.R.T.A. began to emulate its more cutthroat rival. The Liberation of Lori Berenson 2011-03-02T18:31:23Z She could always retreat to illogical strongholds of unreason, whence she sent forth retorts, and arguments, and statements, which were found to be unanswerable by the average intellect of Whitford. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z “Nonsense, girl?” he cried, half angrily, for her unreason annoyed him. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z It is interesting to ask whether the facts bear out this theory of unreason, and of a wilfulness inexplicable and characteristic of this island alone. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z At each mile that carries him nearer and nearer his goal, his own unreason looms ever immenser and yet immenser before him. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Unless he could justify himself he would remain to them as a mere figure of prejudice and unreason. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z If physical, practical unreason make the savage, which is he? Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z It goes on and goes on, a perpetually reinforced torrent of unreason washing through the brain of the race. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z She gazed at her without speaking, wretchedly conscious of her own unreason. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z His messages must have the limp of unreason. The Law of Hemlock Mountain And none would greatly mark his goings and comings—Christian's—for unreason has so chartered his ways. The Unknown Sea It is rather the ideal of triumph over our unreason. The Sources Of Religious Insight You can choose a clear road, yet you shall never walk there in safety: Chance—that secret unreason—lurks in the hedgerows, myriad-formed, to plot against you. The Book of Susan A Novel "Why?" said Alex unwisely, urged by some mysterious unreason to provoke the answer which she already anticipated with resentment. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z If our light be darkness, then in our darkness we must seek for light; if reason be contradictory in itself, truth must be found in unreason. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" It is the unreason of the thing that appeals to us, and no amount of theorising about the immorality of murder can deprive us of our joke. The Book of This and That If one asks guidance from reason, reason appears at first as a sort of spirit brooding upon the face of the depths of unreason. The Sources Of Religious Insight In spite of its unreason, war, which has always governed the world, always ruled the lives of men, always uplifted the strong and deposed the weak, will remain beautifully terrible, immortally young. American World Policies But she dared not make any such suggestion, and Lady Isabel, looking at her dismayed face, laughed a little as though at the unreason of a child. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Elements of reason and unreason fusing through distorted nightmares until he was lying there able to remember, able to wonder, able to think. Thy Name Is Woman The two are perpetually at variance, the reason of the one being the unreason of the other, the truth of the one being the falsehood of the other. Religious Perplexities He knew their weaknesses, their superstitions, their follies, their unreason! The New Warden The narrow trends of shipboard life give licence to a conservatism that out-Herods Herod in intensity, unreason—in utter sophistry. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Quite conscious of her own unreason, she yet said fretfully: "I really can't get all the way home, unless I can sit down and rest somewhere." Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z He was not slow to feel the change, and it depressed him, 180 and made Barbara wonder at Nanna’s ingratitude and womanish unreason. Prisoners of Conscience It is a confused mingling of all the instincts, and of all the reasons, and of all the unreasons.... The Forerunners He is more anxious to expose the strange unreason of former writers, the inadequacy of their knowledge, their want of aptitude in induction, than their services in storing material for the use of successors. The History of Freedom Everywhere here are reminders of the ravages of war, the madness of ignorance and unreason. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Nobly indignant at the slanders uttered against her, her wifely love forgives the slanderer in pity for the blindness of unreason which has caused his action. An Introduction to Shakespeare I had never much natural sympathy for the passion of love; but this unreason in my patron’s wife disgusted me outright with the whole matter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) Let your simple presence show a calm disavowal of errant passions; make of yourselves onlookers whose luminous and compassionate gaze compels us to blush at our own unreason. The Forerunners The more he believes in his own reason, the more he yearns for some method of out-shouting the unreason of his neighbours. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' He still insisted it was a necessary great unreason, absolutely necessary—for the mass of people, a part of them, a natural expression of them, but he could imagine the possibility—of 'understandings.' The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman We are not aroused to talk, and work, and fight against war as inhuman, as economic folly, as unreason, and especially as an immorality and a sin. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association Pitiable spectacle of weakness and folly, is it capable of any explanation which can redeem man from the imputation of unreason? The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion She shook her head as if in recovery, within the minute, of some mild allowance for his unreason. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II If something had happened—some slight accident—to interrupt it, his reason, or his unreason, might have taken it for a sign that the obscure doom, whatever it was, had been averted. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse The fact of a religion made up of tenets like these having been thought out by one of the profoundest of reasoners does not prevent its being the very perfection of unreason. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications It was Kitty’s which he opened first, perhaps because it was nearest; but the torrent of inconsequential words confused him by their unreason and he turned to Lucy’s, reading it over thoughtfully. Hidden Water Mutiny of men thou wilt entirely repress; weakness, despondency, thou wilt cheerily encourage; thou wilt swallow down complaint, unreason, weariness, weakness of others and thyself. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose The confusion had struck most of them with terror and they were glad to heed in such a moment even the will of unreason. The Story of Don Quixote It was rolling straight toward me, gathering momentum as it came—not one man or a dozen, but a solid wall of human hate and unreason. The Man the Martians Made We prefer to be stirred to emotional life by those who are transported by love of beauty to the realms of unreason. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Therefore the unreason, the want of logic, and the absence of any just view of God, appear, more or less, throughout these statements. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors It was the utter, persistent unreason, the maddening blindness of the voice and the crying. The Rainbow It is the reason given for every act of unreason, the law invoked whenever lawlessness justifies itself. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The conception that war is only a product of human unreason is on the same level as the idea that revolutions are only mental aberrations of the masses. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals The light of unreason was still in her eyes when he had finished, telling her the things he and Kerk had discussed. Deathworld Rushing to another extreme of unreason, she decided that she and Wolf must go see Rose to-night—and perhaps the Barrys, too—and cheer and solace them all. The Beloved Woman He is always in the majority, and is the main element of unreason and stupidity in the judgment of a “discerning public.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete But India has, with much greater daring and with more of unreason, carried back many billions of years the origin of mankind and has painted vividly a future whose expanse is as the boundless sea. India, Its Life and Thought The conception that war is only a product of human unreason is on the same level as the idea that revolutions are only mental aberrations of the masses. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Naturally estimable women are forced into habits of dissimulation by the unreason of the tyrant in authority in many families; and Aunt Grace Mary was one of the victims. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Many people bring into a new movement the whole intensity and unreason of their personal desires and discontents, and the train of progress must carry all this luggage along with it. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Was there any reason for the Wickliffe boy’s unreason? Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Intelligence must be regarded as having a purpose, and as working towards an end, for it is this alone which distinguishes reason from unreason, and mind from mere unintelligent force. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles "Reason" and "enlightenment" were his watchwords; opposition to his wise measures he regarded as obscurantist and unreasonable, and unreason, if it proved stubborn, as a vice to be corrected with whips. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Mrs. Comerford had met Shawn with an air of affection mingled with deprecation, as though she asked pardon for the old unreason. Love of Brothers Yet, though the theology of God has become the secret of My unreason, I find Myself dangerously susceptible. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath For it is true that this illogical good humour amid unreason and disorder is one of the real virtues of the English people. What I Saw in America It is only another instance of how unreason in one extreme tends to bring about unreason in the other. An Anarchist Woman What is it, they ask, but barefaced crazy unreason, the negation of intelligibility and law? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It may be good to know that, even in speculations on 666, there are different degrees of unreason. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II The unreserve and unreason of her passion at last disgusted him. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West The truth is that prohibitions might have done far less harm as prohibitions, if a vague association had not arisen, on some dark day of human unreason, between prohibition and progress. What I Saw in America But he was steady and sure in all his movements and his eyes were deadly cool and reasonable—only it was the reasonableness of insanity, reasonableness based on the wildest premises of unreason. The Branding Iron Under the sheltering wings of a self the matter of unreason can lodge itself as safely as any other kind of content. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy There was another night when, with the usual unreason, the swift and luxurious glide, lessening through easy gradations, ceased. Old Junk Convalescence came, with its unwilling fretfulness, its fits of unreason. Peggy But like everything else that inheres in the natural senses and spirit of man, it has something in it; it is not stark unreason. Eugenics and Other Evils And wouldn't that unreason be more likely to get worse in the terrible lunar desert than it ever would on Earth? The Planet Strappers Seume holds: “I cannot decide whether the women have as much reason as the men, but I am perfectly sure that they have not so much unreason.” Psychology and Social Sanity Slave as you are of habit, of the character you have woven for yourself out of years of deliberate living—what wild unreason to imagine that love can unmake, can recreate! Robert Elsmere "What in the name of unreason are you doing here?" Peggy Greece was the home of syllogism and of unreason. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre He never wrung his hands, nor wept, nor bewailed the unreason of the multitudes to whom in vain he preached reason. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet It was to combat this very unreason of devotion that he had hoped for further confirmation. The Justice of the King I was amazed at the vehement unreason of her reply. The Tyranny of the Dark And, doctor, I want to apologize for my anger and unreason this morning. The Girls at Mount Morris The crowds that hung upon his words were swayed to rank unreason by his impassioned eloquence. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators To suppose that any marksman, however indifferent, could fail to register a hit upon so broad an invitation was to betray unreason. Men of Affairs I know, too, that when a strike threatens, he, who is now in the union because he is convinced he can help best there, is the balance-wheel, and prevents radical unreason and its results. Flamsted quarries He had ever been a creature of unreason, morbidly conscious of self—and naturally, for in him struggled the blood of three races. The Tyranny of the Dark With the quick unreason of youth she upbraided herself for the many times she had been secretly mortified at her mother’s lack of the qualities she liked best. The Girls at Mount Morris The true artist may take fair advantage of his nice state of unreason to defy time and space, but he will respect essential verities. The Perfect Gentleman How much too simple all the tale of deeds To pattern out these labyrinthine things, These knots of bright unreason, ghostly bredes Veiled weavers weave, moving with silver wings Within the duskling sense. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence He was not going to prove so pleasant a companion as he had hoped for, and there was that worst of all qualities for a man in command—unreason. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" Is it not our own fault, and shall we not so educate our girls that they shall not fall into it, since they comprehend its unreason? The Education of American Girls Diderot, at any rate, must rank in the second class among those who have attempted to tread a measure among the whimsical zigzags of unreason. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. A lord of misrule, an abbot of unreason, much rather! The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays For Love outrages Art's clear disciplines, And Art lures Love to guilt of cryptic treason: The spirit of imagination pines, Captive in webs of exquisite unreason. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence The unreason and imbecility of the mob crowned themselves. Erik Dorn Allowance must be made for the first unreason of terrible torture to the affections, and the first heart-broken exclamations are not always to be trusted as an index of the religious faith. The Education of American Girls The natives themselves are armed, and being liable, like all natives, to sudden fits of unreason, may conceivably be led into disorders which would involve a war and the regular conquest of the country. Impressions of South Africa The herd instinct need not always act on the side of unreason. Human Traits and their Social Significance If religion is guilty of unreason, irreligion is guilty of apathy. The Moral Economy Sin is unreason, and salvation lies in an external control of the passions—in indifference and apathy begotten of the subordination of desire to reason. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics First cumulative anger, long held in leash, swept him like a forest fire, charring his reason into unreason. The Tyranny of Weakness In him reason always justifies itself by unreason, and if you consider well his quips and cranks you will find them always the play of the intellect. Figures of Several Centuries This idea seemed so comic in its disagreeable tone, and so thoroughly due to my state of weakness and unreason, that I laughed silently. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East His seizure of personal power, which destroyed an impersonal and ideal government, had something English in its very unreason. A Short History of England And yet we catch a glimpse here and there that there was some reason in most of that unreason; we see how sense dwindled away into nonsense, custom into ceremony, ceremony into farce. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge I am more and more impressed that Heraclitus insists on the equation of reason and unreason, or chance, as well as of being and not-being, etc. Memories and Studies Mutiny of men thou wilt sternly repress; weakness, despondency, thou wilt cheerily encourage: thou wilt swallow down complaint, unreason, weariness, weakness of others and thyself;—how much wilt thou swallow down? How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune In a sense therefore the soul as realised was double; in itself it partook of the eternal reason, as associated with body it belonged to the realm of unreason. A Short History of Greek Philosophy It will be apparent, when I deal with that period, that I do not palliate the real unreason in divine right as Filmer and some of the pedantic cavaliers construed it. A Short History of England She was appalled at the unreason of passion. The Coast of Chance "But I know, I know," the tendril cried, In beautiful sweet unreason; Till lo! from its prison, glorified, It burst in the glad spring season. Custer, and Other Poems. Their unreason is of no great consequence, yet it is something; it is not quite kept out of sight. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature But it had been too much to ask of him, and for a while he felt the shock of Tonelli's unreason and excess so much that there was a decided coolness between them. A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories The soul in which the feminine does not mingle is ripe for wrong, strife and unreason. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Then, of course, the superb unreason of women. My New Curate Etna had looked down upon her as she sucked and cried, toddled and played, grew to a lusty girlhood, and on into young womanhood with its gayety and unreason, its work and hopes and dreams. The Call of the Blood In these romances Chaucer leaves some old medieval difficulties unresolved and unreconciled, without attempting to recast the situation as he found it in his authorities, or to clear away the element of unreason in it. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature For perverse unreason has its own logical processes. Notes on My Books My gift is the thing that takes you: could there be a better proof than that it's to-night's display of it that has brought you to this unreason? The Tragic Muse With sweet unreason she set aside authority when it clashed with her opinion. The Mermaid A Love Tale It is part of their policy never to enter into details, but to produce a general atmosphere of distrust and unreason. Home Rule Second Edition In religion as in everything else the father was a formalist, and such religious views as he held were those of the Aufklärung, for which all forms of spiritual emotion were the folly of unreason. The Youth of Goethe To such wild unreason does the mind of man descend when it rejects the Bible. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity "It will arouse the opposition to greater unreason," he said. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Are reasonable men to strip themselves of all armor, and suffer unreason to prevail? Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View It has always been part of the unreason and frenzy of times of war. Robin A day-born dream of divine unreason, A marvel moulded of sleep—no more? Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI O, among other things, the bold unreason Of modern Zacharies who seek for fruit. Love's Comedy That is, briefly, all the reason in the Brontës on this special subject: the rest is stark unreason. The Victorian Age in Literature An ordinarily decorous life, if you will; free from lust or passion, and without gross unreason, but nevertheless tame, unprogressive, dry and unproductive, without any absolute certainty except that of the helplessness of man. Life of Father Hecker For this is by no means an exaltation of the "heart" over the "head," a defence of unreason. Pascal's Pensées Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love. The Last Man With a certain noble unreason, he dismissed the idea that by living in Athens he might fight the battle for Rome. Roads from Rome He felt as if he had been assaulting a beautiful alabaster wall of unreason. The Portion of Labor The boy did not perplex him quite so much—he did not think so much about him—but the girl, the pure and sweet unreason of her proceedings, was beyond his mental grasp. The Debtor A Novel There are times when an austere and just Providence, in its march along the inscrutable way, brings our hearts to the test of their own unreason. Romance It was no waste then, after all!—this life of strange unreason ending in this very climax of uselessness, exactly when ordinary usefulness was about to begin. None Other Gods Henry's tender patience with Sylvia's moods and unreason made him see over her character, as he could see over her physical head. The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel Andrew's lips trembled perceptibly; his forehead was knitted with vacuous perplexity; his eyes reflected blanks of unreason; his whole body had an effect of weak settling and subsidence. The Portion of Labor He let himself be impelled to the door, then suddenly he recovered himself and stepped forward with an accession of dignity and authority which carried weight even in the face of hysterical unreason. The Debtor A Novel There was a slight echo of rancor in his own voice, still it was patient, with the patience of a man with a woman and her unreason. By the Light of the Soul A Novel It seemed tolerably reasonable, put like that—at least, it seemed consistent with what appeared to the three to be the amazing unreason of all Frank's proceedings. None Other Gods It was full of an enormous, greedy delight, as of one who eats ravenously, and yet there was malignity and awful misery and unreason in it. The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel The wild Milesian features, looking false ingenuity, restlessness, unreason, misery, and mockery, salute you on all highways and byways. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 He had a keen sense of the unreason and contrariness of her whole attitude, but he had no contempt towards her on account of it. The Debtor A Novel "There is nothing so unjust as prejudice, unless it be jealousy," exclaimed Lady Angleby with delicious unreason. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax The loss of Mike and the disappearance of Aurora were becoming grievances that he cherished with youthful unreason. In the Roaring Fifties Many men might profitably change their reason for his unreason. Life of Charles Dickens There abides he, in his squalor and unreason, in his falsity and drunken violence, as the ready-made nucleus of degradation and disorder. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 He felt as if he were facing some new system of things, some higher order of creature for whom unreason was the finest reason. The Debtor A Novel The English politicians complained of the "injustice and unreason of the King of France, who seeks the disinheritance of their master in Aquitaine". The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Let us not hastily suppose that this neglect of English rested wholly on unreason, or had nothing to say for itself. On The Art of Reading Love makes children of men and women,—shows them the wisdom of unreason and the value of soap-bubbles. Idolatry A Romance The unreason of our painting has the same cause as the unreason of our objects of use; and the cause is in us, not in the artist. Essays on Art That was quite meaningless; it must be true that one of the moon's rays was unreason. The Judge The life of unreason is their desire; the experience whose bent is determined by every whim, the expression which has no rational connection with the past and no serious consideration for the future. Preaching and Paganism She was the daughter of unreason and the granddaughter of folly. The Palace of Darkened Windows Having successfully baffled his opponent with the brilliancy of his unreason, Kenny enlarged upon the humiliation he must experience when Garry learned the truth. Kenny We are almost rid of the manners of the King's mistress, and most women no longer try to appeal to men by their charming unreason. Essays on Art The ugly, sordid side of mediaeval life is turned outwards; its dirt, discomfort, ignorance, absurdity, brutality, unreason and insecurity are rendered with crass realism. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century It should be dismissed, I think, as an indication of childish unreason, unworthy of any one who faces realities. Humanly Speaking While rage at such unreason lasted the camels went like mad, but such speed could not be for long. The Palace of Darkened Windows Perhaps disease had something to do with this unreason. Children of the Market Place Who had lost more than he by his unreason? The Spinners Visible signs of such unreason appear in the relentless and hideous aspect which life puts on; for those instruments which emancipate themselves from their uses soon become hateful. Outspoken Essays I am not as a rule a judge of good looks; and no doubt 'tis unreason in me to pity her the more for her comeliness. Lady Good-for-Nothing But he was wrapped in a personal gloom that had descended on him like a cloud of unreason. The Palace of Darkened Windows "If men are not free in what they do of good and evil, then," he cries, in what is surely a paroxysm of unreason, "good is no longer good, and evil no longer evil." Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The true anarchist, as he sometimes dared to hint, was the cold unreason of duty which, as in Bifurcation, keeps lovers meant for each other apart. Robert Browning Yet all the time the doors have stood wide open, and through them an orderly exit might have been conducted had reason not given place to unreason. The Nervous Child The grotesque fancy, the love of minutiae, in a word, the extravagance of imagination and unreason are here absent, or present only in hymns that contrast vividly with those of the older tone. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Audrey, too, would have liked to retire, for automobiles and sensations had exhausted her; but just at this point her unreason had begun to operate. The Lion's Share I plead against the unreason of your fault. The Seven Plays in English Verse I can't say how much reason or unreason there may prove to be in this particular case. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories With such men I have reasoned, and sometimes not in vain, upon the injustice and unreason of their attitude. Ireland In The New Century The darkness set his own mind free from clouds of excitement and from mists of unreason. Flames At any rate, the Sphinx had spoken and shown that she had some feeling, if only that of pique and unreason; and the despairing lover was able to take a little heart. Love Romances of the Aristocracy His whole relation to Melrose had altered so rapidly for the worse during the preceding weeks that no injustice or unreason surprised him. The Mating of Lydia He described a man who might very easily slip over the border line between reason and unreason. The Red Redmaynes In the North the bitterness and unreason of limited groups of anti-slavery people excited the anger of men who saw in their ways and speeches continual sources of irritation, which made all compromise difficult. Westways Her look of exhaustion distressed him, and, for all her unreason, he felt himself astonishingly in sympathy with her. Lady Rose's Daughter Fortunately these "illnesses" gave warning and Charles would ask his employer leave for a "holiday," and stay at home trying by gentle mirth and work to divert the dread visitor of unreason. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women There is a wanton unreason embodied in the life of woman now; the present 'virtue' is a morbid unhealthy plant. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Present my best remembrances to Mrs. Carlyle, whom that stern and blessed solitude has armed and sublimed out of all reach of the littleness and unreason of London. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I It did add an appearance of stability and reason to the splendid unreason of his loving her. The Dark House Mutiny of men thou wilt sternly repress; weakness, despondency, thou wilt cheerily encourage: thou wilt swallow down complaint, unreason, weariness, weakness of others and thyself;—how much wilt thou swallow down! Past and Present It seemed to him the mere sentimental unreason of the young girl, who will not believe that there is any irrevocableness in things at all, till life teaches her. Lady Connie And the science of Freud would make it essentially impossible to say how far our reason or unreason does go, or where it stops. The New Jerusalem My Brother here is continually telling me that I shall lose it all, —which is not so bad; but lose it all by my own unreason,—which is very bad. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I There are too many plain people who are always rediscovering human nature—its turpitudes, fatuities, unreason. The Plain Man and His Wife If eloquence is reason fused with emotion, writing, or speaking, full of dead metaphors is unreason fused with sham emotion. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor And everything that I saw bore the stamp of stupidity and unreason. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev There is something of unreason in the sight which affects the eye as well as the reason. The New Jerusalem Mr. Horton was a little impatient of his old friend's unreason. Hillsboro People The collapsed harmonium was hauled in last, and with the perfect unreason of crowds, they cheered it loudly, till the chauffeur slipped in his clutch and sped away. A Diversity of Creatures If everything was due to a reasonless fortuitous concourse of circumstances, reason could not proceed further in the direction to create any philosophy of the unreason. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 For several months I hovered between life and death, and my brain between reason and unreason. Quit Your Worrying! He is an author who has brought back to the world something of the copiousness, fancy, appetite, power, and unreason of the talk that, one imagines, was once to be heard in the Mermaid Tavern. Old and New Masters These propositions and the reasons, or unreasons, by which they are supported, we will examine in order. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 What was done at Salem, when the tempest of unreason broke loose? The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) It had been the head-quarters of militia, Indians, and stragglers of various descriptions during our absence, and we could easily imagine that a little "misrule and unreason" might have had sway for that period. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest A little unreason is less monotonous than the eternally reasonable, and if it makes you happy for a minute to see the moon over your right shoulder, why not see it, and be unreasonably happy? Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" No one can without unreason urge me to believe, on any but the most irrefutable arguments, that a man, finite in every other respect, is infinite in moral perfection. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed The men who did this sane, wholesome political thinking were quite right in scorning and condemning the crude unreason, often silly, often vicious, which characterized so much of the political thought of their opponents. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 It was strange that she had premonition of the recurring fits of her disorder; and when the ghost of unreason beckoned, Charles took her by the hand and led her to the appointed home. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Poor Mr. Horace spoke with the unreason of a superstitious bigot. Balcony Stories When people have got used to unreason they can no longer be startled at injustice. All Things Considered Protests against the horrors, the unreason, and even the expense of war have hitherto had very small effect. Essays in Rebellion Indeed it would be the height of unreason to expect him to be sitting there without that head. Little Dorrit In these, the Housewife's most glaring moments of unreason, Bella would shut her up and knock her on the table, apostrophising her with the compliment, 'O you ARE a stupid old Donkey! Our Mutual Friend I had never much natural sympathy for the passion of love; but this unreason in my patron's wife disgusted me outright with the whole matter. Master of Ballantrae And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth. All Things Considered On the side of peace I think it is of little avail to plead the horrors and unreason of war. Essays in Rebellion The shock of their intellectual attitude was over, usage robbed it of the first quaint effect of deliberate unreason. Ann Veronica, a modern love story Alone among his brother bishops at this period, he stood "four square to all the winds that blew," as during all his life he stood against all storms of clerical or popular unreason. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Full of this post hoc argument, Mr. Melbury overlooked the infinite throng of other possible reasons and unreasons for a woman changing her mind. The Woodlanders Doubtless there are other objections which can be urged without unreason against the influence of gods and visions in morality, whether in the cell or street. Heretics There are certain military qualities and aspects of life, it says, that are worth preserving at the cost of all the horror, unreason, and waste of war. Essays in Rebellion Why, none whatever," said the parliamentarian; "and to contend as much would be the apex of unreason. The Certain Hour And it must here be noticed that this unreason was not all theological. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom With the unreason of a child, she had insisted upon expecting that somehow, or by some not explained efforts, she would find her house precisely as she left it. Remember the Alamo The mother had a very silly mouth—a mouth, Rowland suspected, capable of expressing an inordinate degree of unreason. Roderick Hudson Not in wilful unreason, or in disbelief of his promise, she looked at this parting as though it might be final. The Happy Foreigner And in the depths of me the battle between love and reason and the dark forces of jealous unreason and suspicion had smouldered, to break out afresh on the least provocation. City of Endless Night Upon his return to Oxford, about 1250, the forces of unreason beset him on all sides. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom He and a company of keen and pugnacious men, intellectually impatient of unreason and wrong, resolved that Europe should not be choked up in every channel by oligarchies and state secrets that already stank. Alarms and Discursions Well, what room for bitterness?—though, with the unreason that no man escapes, he was not without bitterness. Sir George Tressady — Volume II The unreason, brutality, and extravagance of the men; the tyranny of the Union; the growing insolence of the Union officials—Tressady's letters from home after a time spoke of little else. Sir George Tressady — Volume I To Stephen Fountain the whole Christian doctrine of sin was "the enemy"; and the mystical hatred of certain actions and habits, as such, was the fount of half the world's unreason. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I Yet not even then without a sore struggle against unreason. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom For without the hope of such a centre, delight is unreason—a mockery not such as the skeleton at the Egyptian feast, but such rather as a crowned corpse at a feast of skeletons. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare I loved thee in my unreason, and my love strengthened with each hour of returning sense. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger The discrepancy between her words and action struck the chord which, in a man's heart, always responds to the touch of feminine unreason. The Greater Inclination His desire was altogether reasonable: why should its fulfilment depend on the unreason of one who had not strength to order her own behaviour? Heather and Snow The greatest theologians contributed to the welter of unreason from which this pseudo-science was developed. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Our Lord could not commission any one to be received in his name who could not more or less represent him; for there would be untruth and unreason. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. I thought, in the first interval of unreason, that it was a shadow from my own horse, but reminded myself the next moment that there could be no shadow where there was no light. The Portent & Other Stories Ready to swear eternal devotion with that delightful inconsequence of youth in its unreason, thinking to control an emotion as Canute's flatterers would have had him do the waves. Three Weeks So dominant is the unreason of the moment, that the injury he inflicts appears absolute justice, and the injury he suffers absolute injustice. There & Back Oh, the hideous injustice of it, the unreason! In the Arena Stories of Political Life Job is nothing of a Stoic, but bemoans himself like a child—a brave child who seems to himself to suffer wrong, and recoils with horror-struck bewilderment from the unreason of the thing. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. Slave as you are of habit, of the character you have woven for yourself—out of years of deliberate living—what wild unreason to imagine that love can unmake, can re-create! Robert Elsmere This struck me as unreason run riot, and ever since then I have wished the Spaniards would go a step farther and make cow-fights the national pastime. The Woman with the Fan Perpetual vacillation between contraries becomes its only mode of progress, because it represents that childish form of prejudice which falls in love and cools, adores, and curses, with the same haste and unreason. Amiel's Journal And so on, with a whirling unreason, with which Andrew had grown familiar. The Mountebank In all its self-contradiction and cowering unreason, it is set face to face with its celestial umpire, and subjected to her unrelenting criticism. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded The ordinary motives don't seem to count; it's the realm of unreason. A Modern Instance Wherefore I reason there is yet reason in their unreason, seeing this body was somebody, yet no body o' mine, but which nobody among them can swear to. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn That divine unreason of the gods, which lures man as a universal solvent of his sorrow, the great solution to the great enigma! Together When a woman employs her last weapon, her confession of unreason, and demands forgiveness, what can a man do but proclaim himself the worm that he is? The Mountebank The need of some governing authority in a State can be denied by none but an Anarchist, a gentleman who lives two doors beyond Rousseau on the side of unreason. Moral Philosophy I heard the hysteria and unreason in my voice and it just made me madder. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Every sin is an act of unreason, essentially an absurdity. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah He was a spoiled child grown to be a man, with a child's petulance and unreason, but a man's passions. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII I wallowed in the unreason of a man vainly seeking to justify himself. The Mountebank Besides, is there not a force in ill-humour and unreason to which you constantly see the wisest bend? Friends in Council — First Series They recognised an amusing unreason in this, and laughed. The Minister's Charge Each was a thoroughly stubborn man, according to the bent of all good men, and reasoning increased their unreason. Erema — My Father's Sin "When he was with her he saw all her obstinacy, unreason, and selfishness; but when he was away he only saw her good points." Children of the Bush The assistant manager released himself from responsibility, yielded to woman's unreason, and the lady, who had arranged the matter with the leader of the orchestra, returned in contemptuous triumph to the stage. The Mountebank Women may talk the greatest unreason out of doors, and nobody kindly informs them that it is unreason. Friends in Council — First Series All this shows the radical unreason of human nature. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims In the agonizing silence she felt acutely her girlishness, her helplessness, her unreason, confronted by his strong and shrewd masculinity. Hilda Lessways The bald fact jarred; King was hurt and grew angry and resentful with all of that unreason of a boy. The Everlasting Whisper He made a brave struggle, however, against this tide of unreason. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement But the very things I am arguing against are the unreason and self-will, which being constantly pampered, do not appreciate reason or just sway. Friends in Council — First Series Singular, that the man who so fearlessly stood against this tide of unreason has left to the world simply a reputation as the most brilliant cook that ever existed! Fiat Money Inflation in France “But I know, I know,” the tendril cried, In beautiful sweet unreason;Till lo! from its prison, glorified, It burst in the glad spring season. Poems of Power "Sex vice has always been common," men say with truth; and then with fatal unreason they add, "and always will be." Men Women and God “You are not the two persons I ascertained you were,” he says, with the note of one resigned to communion with unreason; “because you”—he indicates me—“are evidently at your residence in London.” A Modern Utopia Accordingly, they began to shout, "To it, fathers—to it I"—"Fight monk, fight madcap—Abbot against Abbot is fair play, and so is reason against unreason, and malice against monkery!" The Abbot She tells her of the trials, the irritations, the unreason, the tiresomeness of sick people, and still women will come to the school, and forgetting the warnings, they will complain when some exasperating incident occurs. Making Good on Private Duty The House of Commons is a Representative Assembly; the rhetoricians and fencers represent the unreason and the pugnacity of the partisans. Without Prejudice Is faith but treason; Reason, unreason, But a mechanical weaving of words? Embers, Complete Now, contrast that awful muddle of unreason and injustice with what you call my "counsels of despair." God and my Neighbour In "Erewhon" it was human unreason, as a clever youth sees it, that he was attacking. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Dulac hurled his weapon into the bushes and turned upon her furiously, seizing her arm and dragging her to him so that his eyes, glowing with unreason, could burn into hers. Youth Challenges Sit down, then we can talk without feeling that every word is a last word, and full of hurry and therefore of unreason. The Maid of Maiden Lane And, at moments, this silence became dissonant with the clamour of unreason. In Secret She looked straight at him with a steady smile which lit up the scene of darkness and unreason like the light of some honest fireside. The Ball and the Cross "You need not point the unreason, but consider how she has suffered." The Long Vacation The childish, impossible unreason of the suspicion against her completed in Sophia's mind the ruin of the reputation of the French people as a sensible race. The Old Wives' Tale So lovely to the ancient British, well-born, feudal instinct is a state of unreason, that the very absence of any principle endears to it institutions which no one can attempt to support by argument. The American Senator "You had much better go to Delphine Carrere," said I. "I have only been back a day, and you want to get rid of me already?" she cried, using her woman's swift logic of unreason. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel As I was observing," continued Michael, "this man also took the view that the symbol of Christianity was a symbol of savagery and all unreason. The Ball and the Cross Under unusual circumstances it still does the usual thing, wherefore the highhole perforating the ice-house is guilty of lunacy—of unreason, in short. Revolution, and Other Essays And now she had been guilty of precisely the same unreason as that with which she had reproached Cyril! The Old Wives' Tale Thus the unexpected conclusion emerges, that without unreason and injustice there would have been no progress. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth "It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified." The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel He graciously forgave her, having already arrived at the mature conclusion that females were unaccountable folk whose excursions into unreason should be regarded by man with pitying indulgence. The Fortunate Youth And yet, as we look more closely into the pages of history, do we not find that fatality distils her poison from the victim's own wavering feebleness, his own trivial duplicity, blindness, unreason, and vanity? Wisdom and Destiny He was prepared for the advice, but unreason strove in him desperately against the facts of the situation. A Life's Morning Men of his stamp constantly entertain unreasonable expectations, and are angry when the unreason is forced upon their consciousness. The Emancipated Overwhelmed by the hateful unreason of it all, he felt as though his brain reeled on the verge of madness. Will Warburton "I'm glad I didn't think of going on the stage,"' she said, childish yet very feminine unreason combining with atavistic puritanism. The Fortunate Youth Youth and disappointment weighed in the scale of unreason. Demos Argument would always have glanced harmless away off his shield of utter unreason; but a loving impulse, in a happy moment, might have softened his heart to what he most detested in the former days. Wives and Daughters In him, harshness and unreason inevitably led to a reaction in which all the softer of his qualities rose predominant. The Emancipated He found nothing humorous or grotesque in her measure of a gentleman, for he realized that she was strung to a pitch of unreason and unnatural excitement, and that she was in terrible earnest. The Barrier Or what good end of these?" she said; "Is there no God or end at all, Nor reason with unreason weighed, Nor force to disenthral Weak feet that fall? Songs Before Sunrise It was almost hysteria, to such a pitch of unreason was she wrought. Demos Such desperation has unreason in it, And bleeds the hearts that crave to comfort you. The Dynasts And provoked by this fresh piece of unreason she opened fire in earnest, in defence of what she believed to be their true welfare. Australia Felix But then she turned from me to Dale, and feminine unreason took possession of her pen. Simon the Jester If there is—I will make that reason itself folly, and madness, and unreason. The Witch of Prague But as against these there were the preachers—poor wind-blown sticks of unreason who saw only what the current palaver seemed to indicate. The Titan The fidelity of Griseldis under the trials imposed upon her by her, in point of fact, brutal husband is the fidelity of a martyr to unreason. Chaucer He must temper his irritation at our undoubted fanaticism and unreason. Jailed for Freedom And when, to ask me that insistent question, she brought her face still nearer, I flung down the reins of my unreason and let it ride amain upon its desperate, reckless course. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza And I must tell you whatever quarrels or misunderstandings arise, they very seldom take place between people of different race; and consequently since there is less unreason in them, they are the more readily appeased.” News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance Those who survived it, habituated to cruelty and unreason, were thereby fitted to live cruel and unreasonable lives—and did so. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) The Indian's notion of the life of plants and stones is on the same level of unreason, as we moderns reckon reason. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 For old men who are reasonable and neither cross-grained nor churlish find old age tolerable enough: whereas unreason and churlishness cause uneasiness at every time of life. Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Such prejudice, such bitter persecution, such priming of the jury, such monstrous assumptions and unreason—fancy them coming from an impartial judge! The Paris Sketch Book It is mad unreason,—I feel that,—but it is no less true. The Golden Dog For youth it is the season Of restlessness and strife; Of passion and unreason, And ignorance of life. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 People wanted to go fast, conveniently, directly, and, for guide, accepted unreason under the name of reason. The Modern Regime, Volume 2 By that road he would travel over a swell of rising ground covered with short, withered grass, into valleys of wonder and unreason. The Day's Work - Volume 1 Tyranny and unreason of low-minded advocates had brought religion itself into question; and profligacy of courtiers, each worshipping the golden calf seen in his mirror, had spread another form of scepticism. An Essay on Man All is laughter, and all is dust, and all is nothing; for out of unreason is all that is. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology I mean that there is a sort of epigram of unreason in the situation itself, as there was in the situation where there was jam yesterday and jam to-morrow but never jam to-day. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays Burnet was drawn to the translation of “Utopia” by the same sense of unreason in high places that caused More to write the book. Utopia They have grown used to their own unreason; chaos is their cosmos; and the whirlwind is the breath of their nostrils. A Miscellany of Men If, then, reason would be non-existent were there no such thing as unreason, surely it follows that the more unreason there is, the more reason there must be also? Erewhon "We've been together too long to let any 'reasons' or 'unreasons' come between us, old man," he said, not very steadily. The Man in Lower Ten But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost—he becomes just an unit in unreason. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story He looked up from his newspaper in mild protest at such unreason. Bucky O'Connor He made the sign of the cross of God, He knew the Roman prayer, But he had unreason in his heart Because of the gods that were. The Ballad of the White Horse Hence the necessity for the development of unreason, even in the interests of reason herself. Erewhon The whole system is stiff with rigid unreason; like the Royal Court in Lewis Carroll. What's Wrong with the World He was ascending the house of reason, a thing more hideous than unreason itself. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare This success brought L.'s paranoia to the pinnacle of unreason. The Foundations of Personality The people pushed with the unreason of a crowd fleeing before a fire. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse I have now said enough to give English readers some idea of the strange views which the Erewhonians hold concerning unreason, hypothetics, and education generally. Erewhon If my shoemaker turn me out an excellent pair of boots, and I, in some mood of cantankerous unreason, throw them back upon his hands, the man has just cause of complaint. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Choice of the life or death lies in ourselves; There is no fate but when unreason lours. Poems — Volume 3 He was clear and forcible, with, at times, a most effectively caustic utterance against unreason. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 I gave up reason; I surrendered myself to unreason; it is a not unpleasant process, occasionally. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot Their conceptions of reason and of the laws of nature being often incorrect, they appealed to unreason and to laws which were not those of nature. The Ancien Regime Hence, he finds it unintelligible that a thing may be explained from the point of view of pure unreason. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The cruelty and unreason of these attacks upon his wife distressed the bishop beyond measure, and baffled him hopelessly. Soul of a Bishop In temperament, in feeling, in mind, and even in unreason, they are Western, with an absolute comprehension of all Western modes of thought, even of those which are remote from their historical experience. Notes on Life and Letters And though the unreason of their revilings was patent—since no one could hope to reach the lamp-room, which was forward—he became greatly distressed. Typhoon Would you have had them appeal to unreason? The Ancien Regime A fever of curiosity urged it forward, that kind of Parisian curiosity which is as violent as an access of positive unreason. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola There were not only doubt and denial, but now there were also impatience and unreason. Soul of a Bishop "I suppose the Lord Chancellor, and the Vice Chancellors, and the whole Chancery battery of great guns would be infinitely astonished by such unreason and injustice in one of their suitors," pursued my guardian. Bleak House |
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