An Enemy of the People : play by Henrik Ibsen on sewage contamination.
... familiar mud, and brings down with it the daring physician. The world does not tolerate its saviour: for this crime it retaliates upon whoever seeks to meddle in its affairs, brands him as an enemy of the people, puts him on the cross. The old law must continue, the wrongs must be preserved, and whatever good happens in spite of eveything must also be doomed and swallowed up by the wrong. The great ...
... people, the masses, are not capable of recognizing their own secular good—not to speak of any higher spiritual welfare—and one who does or tries to do a really good turn to them is dubbed "An Enemy of the People" Page 127 Today the opposition is infinitely greater. The call now to humanity is for an infinitely greater change—an inner change in the consciousness and an outer change ...
... ss to the mass that a progressive society becomes possible. Page 512 × E.g. Ibsen in his drama, "An Enemy of the People". × There was first seen the drastic beginning of this phenomenon in Fascist Italy and Soviet ...
... can reach and overthrow and spoil his higher poise, or the collective unconsciousness too can invade and overwhelm the individual in his high status, who is declared not unoften the highbrow, an enemy of the people—although atonement is sometimes attempted at a late period (as in the case of the Christ or Jeanne d'Arc, for example). A way however was discovered in India by which one could avoid ...
... reach and overthrow and spoil his higher poise, or the collective unconsciousness too can invade and overwhelm the individual in his high status, who is declared, not unoften, the highbrow, an enemy of the people – although atonement is sometimes attempted at a late period (as in the case of the Christ or Jeanne d'Arc). A way, however, was discovered in India by which one could avoid this life's inevitable ...
... communist leaders proved too small for their boots. At first it was an enjoyable game for them to scare and steal from the clergy, the rich, the petty bourgeois and all those who were considered enemies of the people. But soon the blundering councils succeeded in causing such confusion that the Reichswehr (the national Army), supported by several Free Corps units, had little trouble defeating them. By... hundred thousand mourners following the remains of the Jewish prime minister to the burial ground. 12 “With a probability bordering on certainty Hitler has, till May 1919, chosen the side of the people [i.e. the socialists] of whom he later untruthfully said ‘that already in November 1918 he had found out that they possessed no honour’.” 13 Many students of Hitler’s life have been surprised by these ...
... politicians stood against me; many of them were close to my father; some were deeply respected by me; some were even my helpers and teachers of my early youth. Friends of yesterday had become enemies of today. But people were with me, and I could witness how the Spirit, if it wills, can blow its winds through the masses, awaken them, and lift them up on its mighty wings." Yes, I was a daily companion... remained quiet for some time and became pensive. "You know I too am an atheist in a certain sense," I said. She lifted her head. She looked sharply to understand what I had meant. I said, "People say that God is good and omnipotent and that He has created the world. But how could He have created a world in which He inflicts suffering on His creatures, sanctions pain, permits evil? God being... took the receiver, I found it was the Princess who was speaking. She said, "I had thought of meeting you at the breakfast table, but I have to skip the Page 26 breakfast. I have too many people this morning and they want to brief me for the session today at the Conference. May be, you are also very busy throughout the day. But I have spoken to your Chairman. Do you know what I told him?" ...
... Puissant. Page 279 (5) God-Mind, wielder of the thunderbolt, will of a hundred works, lord of luminous force, rush with all thy chariots upon the mortal who makes himself our enemy. (6) Thee the peoples who have made clear the seat of sacrifice call for the winning of the plenitude, because utter is thy abundance, fierce thy energy, and first and supreme art thou in the multitude of thy... the vast expansion of the Thought-gods. (4) In the Thought-gods we establish by their bold violence affirmation and sacrifice and they protect throughout our human epochs our mortality from the Enemy’s harms. (5) They are soul-strengths that become adept in us for the conquest, perfect in force of achievement, no half-strengths of the light; forward through heaven illumine the sacrifice with thy... whose perfect birth etc. (9) Dawn on us, O daughter of heaven, prolong not for ever our labour; thou art not afflicted by the light of the Sun of Truth as is the thief of our radiances, as is the enemy of our being, O thou whose perfect birth etc. (10) Even so much and more shouldst thou give to the seeker of knowledge, thou who dawning with thy spacious light on him who affirms thee art not diminished ...
... Radical has thrice met without Pierre being able to overcome the opposition against him. Lemaire had two chances, one that if the people could be got to vote, Pierre's influence over the mass might carry the day for him, the other that Nandagopalu might intimidate the enemy & counteract the administration. But Nandagopalu instead of intimidating is himself intimidated; he is hiding in his house & sending... abstention from correspondence with Bengal even with officially unobjectionable people. Our correspondence now is chiefly limited to Arya business. Your internal struggle in the Yoga has naturally its causes. I shall help you as much as possible spiritually, but you must get rid of everything that gives a handle to the enemy in ourselves. Your letters for a long time showed a considerable revival of... Page 222 nil, as in normal times I only see him once in two years. But here all the Swadeshis are lumped together; so we have to be careful not only that we give no handle to our enemies, but that other people don't give them a handle against us—which is just a little difficult. You have decided, it seems, to carry on Tantra & Mantra, anushthan and pure Vedanta together! My objection to ...
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