Frankenstein : refers to Frankenstein or to Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1818. Frankenstein is a young Swiss student who creates a monster which ultimately destroys him. The name is often used for the monster itself, or for any invention or creation which gets out of control or destroys its originator.
... that he'd die if he went away from here—he's united with you for ever. Are all these mere words? Really have you touched some Frankenstein monster? My dear sir, he was much worse than that before he came to Pondicherry. I have not touched anything, for the Frankenstein was already there, not of my creation. No, Sir, I am not reproaching you, but this is an absolutely inconceivable and unimaginable ...
... community is one of those momentous issues raised in haste by a statesman unable to appreciate the forces with which he is dealing, which bear fruit no man expected and least of all the ill-advised Frankenstein who was responsible for its creation..... The Reform scheme is the second act of insanity, which has germinated from the unsound policy of the bureaucracy. It will cast all India into the melting... community is one of those momentous issues raised in haste by a statesman unable to appreciate the forces with which he is dealing, which bear fruit no man expected and least of all the ill-advised Frankenstein who was responsible for its creation.... We will not for a moment accept separate electorates or separate representation, not because we are opposed to a large Mohammedan influence in popular assemblies ...
... monkey can find the law of fruits by shaking the tree, good though the harvest may be. But this is a bitter harvest. And ultimately, this end of human experience yields only “tricks” and masks – a Frankenstein – but not the powerful reality that could unshackle itself and propel itself, and yield to us the golden fruit of millennia. It is in the body that we must go groping in search of the atoms.... 15 And This Earth? The appearances are as chaotic as those of my own test tube – we all seem to be heading for death and destruction, like the dinosaurs of old. And let us be candid, our Frankenstein is ugly. Yet this is the opposite of despair. Never before has there been such a fertile time, despite all its destructions. Never before has Man been so dangerously in question – never before ...
... this new morality is to be modified by the needs of society and what justice means and what self-sacrifice and indeed a thousand things which will need many hours to investigate. Keshav —I am Frankenstein saddled with a monster of my own making and have made a man to my ruin and a young man to my hurt. Nevertheless "lead on, monster: we'll follow." Treneth —Will you not rest on the fourth rung ...
... —there is no cause for surprise or resentment, if they cared little for the grain of success in their bushelful of failure, and regarded us with those feelings of alarm, distrust and hatred which Frankenstein experienced when having hoped to make a man, he saw a monster. Their conduct was too natural to be censured. I do not say that magnanimity would not have been better, more dignified, more politic ...
... community is one of those momentous issues raised in haste by a statesman unable to appreciate the forces with which he is dealing, which bear fruit no man expected and least of all the ill-advised Frankenstein who was first responsible for its creation. The common belief among Hindus is that the Government have decided to depress the Hindu element in the Indian people by raising the Mahomedan element ...
... community is one of those momentous issues raised in haste by a statesman unable to appreciate the forces with which he is dealing, which bear fruit no man expected and least of all the ill-advised Frankenstein who was responsible for its creation.... We will not for a moment accept separate electorates or separate representation, not because we are opposed to a large Mohammedan influence in popular assemblies ...
... whether you will or not, you come in touch with hidden powers, supra-sensible forces, beings of other worlds and you do not know how to deal with them. You raise ghosts and spirits, demons and gods —Frankenstein monsters that are easily called up but not so easily laid. You break down under their impact, unless your adhara has already been prepared, purified and strengthened. Now, in secular matters, ...
... and political centralisation. Cannot a world-union too come into existence in much the same way and develop in due course into a world-state? But, then, will not a world-state prove a veritable Frankenstein monster for individuals and individual nations alike? The tyranny of the majority can be odious enough, "but what the future promises us is something more formidable still, the tyranny of the whole ...
... great rapidity in Madras. Another year and the whole of India would have been submerged. It was these circumstances, apparently, which led the Government to the resolution of grappling with the Frankenstein monster Lord Curzon had raised and of deploying all the powers and instruments of despotism for its suppression. The panic created by the Rawalpindi disturbance has only led it to unmask its batteries ...
... Likewise man will not possess the world but the world will engulf and devour him in its aboriginal hunger of unconsciousness, if he does not take a right-about turn and declare his conversion. The Frankenstein that man has raised can no longer be met by merely human devices – reason and morals – but by a higher discovery and initiation. The Bomb has shaken the physical atmosphere of the ...
... whether you will or not, you come in touch with hidden powers, supra-sensible forces, beings of other worlds and you do not know how to deal with them. You raise ghosts and spirits, demons and gods – Frankenstein monsters that are easily called up but not so easily laid. You break down under their impact, unless your adhara has already been prepared, purified and strengthened. Now, in secular matters, when ...
... possess the world but the world will engulf and devour him in its aboriginal hunger of unconsciousness, if he does not take a right-about turn and declare Page 22 his conversion. The Frankenstein that man has raised can no longer be met by merely human devices—reason and morals—but by a higher discovery and initiation. The Bomb has shaken the physical atmosphere of the earth as no ...
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