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Who was Carlyle an enthusiastic reader of in 1816? |
Isaac Newton, on gravitation
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Who was Joseph Louis, Comte Lagrange?
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French mathematician and astronomer, author of Mecanique analytique (1788). Proved that the planetary system will last forever on gravitational scheme
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Who was Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace?
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French mathematician and astronomer, author of mecanique celeste, guessed planetary system could not be made on any scheme except for gravitational scheme.
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Who was Abraham Gottlob Werner and James Hutton?
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Werner- Founder of German geology, explained geological formations by the action of water; Hutton- Scotch geologist, explained geographic formations by action of fire
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When was the Royal Society founded?
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1660, incorporated in 1662
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Who theorized of the social contract?
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Rousseau, 1762
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What scotch philosopher (and professor at Edinburgh) was read by Carlyle?
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Dugald Stewart
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What happens when many run to and fro?
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Knowledge is increased
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What should look fearlessly towards all 32 points on the compass?
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Speculation
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What languishes among the English?
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Pure moral science
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What does Weissnichtwo mean?
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Know-not-where
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What was T’s nearest duty?
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Law
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What does stillschweigen & co mean?
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Still silence and Co.
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What is man’s great seedfield?
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Time
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Who can find the true orients (pearls) in the book?
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Pearl diver
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What is man emphatically?
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A proselytizing creature
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What does hofrath heuschrecke mean in English? |
Councillor Grasshopper
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What are Waterloo crackers?
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Giant firecrackers of an unusual size. Used to describe Fraser’s Magazine because it had a reputation for audacity exuberance, and boisterous humor and satire
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Who first published Sartor Resartus?
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Fraser’s Magazine
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Who was Oilver Yorke and what did he do?
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Psuedonym for William Maginn, editor of Fraser’s Magazine
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Who is the prince of lies?
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Devil
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What is puffery?
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Advertising
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What did the sign over the Chinese shopkeeper’s door say?
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No cheating here
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What does “amicus Plato magis amica veritas” mean?
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Plato is my friend, truth is more my friend
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How many windows are in T’s home and in what rooms are they?
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6 – 3 in sitting room, 1 in the bedroom, and 2 in the kitchen (shape of a cross with kitchen in the middle)
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what is gukguk?
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An academic beer
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What is transcendentalism?
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Philosophy which opposes materialism or empiricism, which asserts the domination of the spiritual/intuitive over the material.
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Who was Lorenz Oken?
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German naturalist and philosopher, founded the Isis in 1817 and edited it until 1848.
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Where did T drink?
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Zur Grunen Gans- The Green Goose
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What does Zur Grunen Gans mean?
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At the sign of the green goose
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What toast did T propose? |
To the cause of the poor, in heaven’s name and hell’s!
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What did the crowd at the Green Goose think t would become?
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A gallows bird
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What does Wo steckt doch der Schalk mean?
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Where is the rascal hiding?
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Who was known as the wandering Jew?
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T
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What does Sanscullotism mean?
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Philosophical radicalism; literally means “without breeches”
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What were the principal accomplishments of the 18th Century?
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Denial and destruction
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How long can wonder and admiration exist with no action to follow?
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9 days
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Where in weissnichtwo did T live?
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Attic floor of the highest house in the Wahngasse, at the pinnacle of Weissnichtwo
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What is the pinnacle of Weissnichtwo?
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T’s watchtower
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Where was T a professor?
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New University
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What was T’s title?
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Professor of things in general
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What street did T live on and what does it mean?
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Wahngasse, means dream-lane or illusion-street
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What is the highest point in Weissnichtwo?
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The Schlosskirche (castle chapel) weathercock
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Highest standing biped in Weissnichtwo?
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The weathercock
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What was one of Carlyle’s favorite thoughts?
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From eternity, onwards to eternity
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Where did T write the philosophy of clothes?
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His watchtower/apartment
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What does Aus der Ewigkeit, zu der Ewigkeit mean?
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From eternity, onwards to eternity
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What are Airts?
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Directions or points of the compass
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What are T’s first words?
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“I look down”
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What do weissnichtwo couriers deliver?
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Joy and sorrow
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What does mein werther mean?
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My good friend
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What is rouge-et-noir?
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A game, known as 30 and 40 or red and black
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What does ach, mein lieber mean?
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Ah, my dear sir
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What are abroad at midnight?
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Vice and misery
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What was the population of Weissnichtwo? |
Approximately 500,000
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Who said “I am along with the stars”?
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T
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What are blucher boots?
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Half-boots, named after the Prussian general GL von Blucher
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Who was T’s maid/helper?
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Liza, Lieschen, or Lisekin
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What was Liza to T?
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Bed maker, stove lighter, washer and wringer, cook, errand maid, and general lion’s provider. Also referred to as his right arm, spoon, and necessary of life.
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How did Liza communicate with T?
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Signs and secret divinations
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What can 99 public men be?
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Mute train bearers to the 100th
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What color were Hofrath’s eyes?
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Blue
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What did Hofrath carry with him at all times?
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An umbrella
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What was T’s outline of Hofrath?
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He has heart and talent, at least has had such, yet without fit mode of utterance, or favour of Fortune, and so is now half-cracked, half-congealed.
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What was the most decisive feature of Hofrath?
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His love for T
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What is a dubloon?
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A Spanish gold coin
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What do a star of a lord and button of Birmingham spelter have in common?
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Both are tags for hooking together
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What portion of sentences stand straight on their legs?
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9/10
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Who were the 7 sleepers?
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7 Christian youths of Ephesus, hid from Decius in cave and slept for 200 years (awoken by T’s laugh)
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Who made T laugh?
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John Paul Richter, reading of the Proposal for a Castmetal King
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Who was present when T laughed?
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T, Editor, John Paul Richter
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What are the 2 divisions of T’s book?
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Historical descriptive; philosophical speculative
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What was T’s worst fault as a writer?
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Almost total want of arrangement
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What does color betoken?
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Heart and temper
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What does cut betoken?
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Intellect and talent
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What are the sight and materials whereby man is built?
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Body and cloth
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What did Montesquieu write?
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Esprit des lois (spirit of the law)
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What is the hieroglyphic expression of the divine?
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Nature
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Who was adam’s first wife?
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Lilis (or Lilith) according to the Talmud
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What does Orbis Vestitus mean?
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The world in clothes
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Who was King Nibelung?
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The hero of a Middle German Epic
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What is Wampum?
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Beads of shell, used by North American Indians as money.
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What is an aboriginal anthropophagus?
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Cannibal
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What is the first spiritual want of man?
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Decoration
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What is the first purpose of clothes?
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Ornament
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What did the Orinocco Indians eat?
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Pipe clay
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What is man defined as?
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A tool using animal
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Who was John Knox’s daughter?
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Elizabeth Knox, held out her apron and replied to the King that she would rather receive his head in her lap than have her husband submit to the bishops
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Who was Landgravine Elizabeth?
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St. Elizabeth of Hungary, against her husband’s will, carried food in a basket to the poor at her gates. When her husband pulled aside her apron where she had hidden the basket, he found the food miraculously changed to roses.
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What are aprons?
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Defenses against injury to cleanliness, to safety, to modesty, and sometimes to roguery
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Who was Gao?
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Persian blacksmith who led a revolt with an apron and a spear
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What is society’s working apron?
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Police and military
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What is the most puzzling and least useful vestures of human existence?
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Episcopal or Cassock apron
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What is a laystall?
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A rubbish heap
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What is the grand electric battery of society, and fountain of motion?
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The laystall
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Who are the new kings and clergy of society?
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Journalists
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What was the simplest garment in history?
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Poncho
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What was T’s grand proposition?
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That all society’s interests are hooked and buttoned together and held up by clothes
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What is society founded upon?
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Cloth
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What is the unanswerable question?
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Who am I?
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Who said “I think, therefore I am?”
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Rene Descartes
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What was the Moscow Retreat?
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Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Moscow in 1812. After invading Russia with half a million men, only 25,000 survived.
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What is the riddle of the Sphinx?
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What creature has 4 legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night? Answer: Man
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Recite the Earth Spirit Song
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In Being’s flood, in Action’s storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, work and wave in endless motion! Birth and Death, an infinite ocean, a seizing and giving the fire of Living: ‘Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, and weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.
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What are the somnambulisms of uneasy sleepers?
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Wars
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What is somnambulism?
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Sleep walking
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What is the living visible garment of God?
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Nature
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What is man’s absolute lawgiver although he professes he hates it?
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Prejudice
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Who were the adamites?
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A sect of heretics hoping to re-establish Adam’s state of original innocency (return mankind to a state of nakedness)
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What are the 5 types of man?
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Buck, Blood, Macaroni, Incroyable, Dandy
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What is a buck?
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A dashing young fellow
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What is a blood?
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A man of fire or spirit, a rake
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What is a macaroni?
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A traveled young dandy affecting foreign ways
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What is an incroyable?
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A French fop or dandy
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What was the victory of art over nature?
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Clothes
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What is Sansculottism?
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Philosophical radicalism; translated literally it means “without breeches”
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What does a judge wear?
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Red plush gown, horse hair wig, squirrel skins |
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T exalts and degrades men below most animals except what?
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Jacketed gouda cows
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What is the benefit of clergy?
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Privilege claimed by medieval clergy, later by any one who could read, of demanding trial and punishment by an ecclesiastical court (which could not give death penalty) when accused of crime before a secular court.
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What was the bed of justice?
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Kings throne in French chamber
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What sets all hands in action?
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The articulated word
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What is the name of the earth spirit?
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Erdgeist
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What is the Sanhedrin?
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High counsel of the jews
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What is the garment of thought?
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language
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What is the grand mother idea?
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Society in a state of nakedness
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What is the true pineal gland of society?
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Purse
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Who wrote a critique on pure reason?
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Kant
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What part of the brain did Descartes think to be the seat of the soul?
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Pineal gland
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What is man to the eye of vulgar logic?
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Omnivorous biped that wears breeches
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What is man to the eye of pure reason?
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A soul, a spirit, a divine apparition
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What is the beginning of all wisdom?
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To stare fixedly on clothes until they become transparent
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Who were the old roman geese?
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Sacred geese of Juno, gave alarm when Gauls attempted to take the capitol
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What does “Amer Teufel!” Mean?
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Poor Devil
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What is thought barren without?
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Reverence
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What is descendentalisn?
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Naturalism, empiricism (the philosophy of positive experience)
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What is a Shekinah?
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Literally “the dwelling”: divine intermediary between god and man, the resting place or embodiment of the divine presence
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What is the basis of worship?
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Wonder
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What does science destroy?
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wonder
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What is a man who cannot wonder?
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A pair of spectacles behind which there is no eyes
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Where must a philosopher station himself?
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In the middle
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What is “in partibus infidelium?”
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In the country of unbelievers
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What is pure reason?
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Moral intuition of the world of eternal values
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What are asphodel meadows?
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Fields where souls of departed heroes dwelt
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What is the high capital of satan and his peers?
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Pandemonium
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Is nature an aggregate or whole?
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Whole
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What is the Schwarzald?
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Black forest in Germany
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What happens to the drop of water we shake out from our hand?
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It evaporates, and is carried by the wind to the tropic of cancer
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Why does matter exist?
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To represent some idea, and body it forth
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Where does the essence of all science lie?
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In the philosophy of clothes
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What most interests man?
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Man
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The editor wrote T’s biography using what style?
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Philosophico-poetically
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What is by nature the universally profitable and pleasant of all thing?
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Biography, especially of distinguished individuals
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Where is the old clothes Jewry?
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The London ghetto
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What is Hebron?
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Abraham’s place of peace and rest (also residence of King David, burial place of patriarchs)
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Who is Herr Herausgeber?
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Mr. Editor
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What is sympathetic ink?
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Invisible ink, readable by ironing
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What are the southern signs of the Zodiac?
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Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces
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What are men properly clothed with?
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Authority
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What is the garment of thought?
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Language
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What does Libra symbolize?
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Balance
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What does scorpio symbolize?
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Scorpion
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What does Sagittarius symbolize?
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Archer
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What does Capricorn symbolize?
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Goat
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What does Aquiarius symbolize?
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Water bearer
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What does Pisces represent?
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Fishes
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Who were the first bridge builders?
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Sin and death, which built arch from hell to earth
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What does T call himself?
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The Wanderer
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What is a Pontiff?
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A bridge builder
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Who had an inflamed nervous system when composing?
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Carlyle
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What color were the editor’s spectacles?
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Green
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What are language’s muscles and tissues?
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Metaphors
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What is the Dog Star?
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Sirius (in constellation canis major)
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What were in the 6 paper bags?
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Autobiography
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Where was T born and what does it mean?
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Entepfuhl – “Duck Pond”
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What does exodus mean?
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Transit out of invisibility into visibility
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What is always the most notable moment?
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The beginning
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What is the password and what does it mean?
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Schweig Hund! “Peace hound!”
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What are cicero and cid?
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Examples of wisdom and courage
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Where did Austrians and Russians defeat Frederick the great in 1759?
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Kundersdors
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Who were T’s parents?
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Andreas and Gretchen Futteral
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What was Andreas’ profession?
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Grenadier Sergeant to Frederick the Great
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What was Gretchen’s profession?
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Housewife
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Who was Cincinnatus?
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Hero of Roman Republic, saved Rome as dictator in war with Aequians and returned to his plow
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What 5 things were in basket given to Futterals?
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Red colored infant, green silk, white wrappings, gold friedrichs, baptismal certificate with date and name
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Who dropped T at Futterals’ door?
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A stranger
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What was the stranger wearing?
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A mantled cape
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What sign was T born under?
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Libra
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What is a Friedrich?
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Old Prussian coin worth about $3.98
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What did the stranger note in the basket call T?
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An invaluable loan
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What are the curtains of the everlasting night?
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Death and Birth
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What is the most important of all clothes and what is the first clothes man receives?
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A Name
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What was the first task of Adam?
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Give names to all appearances
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What is Timbuctoo?
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Town on southern edge of sahara desert in French sudan
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What was T’s 6th Sense?
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Hunger
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What did T’s parents call him?
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Gneschen
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How long did it take T to learn to speak?
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15 months
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What are the three rings?
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Ring of care, ring of necessity, and ring of duty
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Who was Diogenes and what does it mean?
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It means “God born”, famous Greek cynic philosopher of 5th Century BC, who was said to live in a tub, to go about with a lantern looking for an honest man, and who was celebrated for extreme self control and sarcastic wit.
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What French philosopher said “Rest? Rest? Shall I not have all eternity to rest in?
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Antoine Arnauld
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What was the name of the stream in Entepfuhl?
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Kuhbach
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Where did T go to seek knowledge?
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Linden tree
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What is the potion or drug used by ancients to give relief or forgetfulness?
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Nepenthe
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Who was the king of Epirus, who twice defeated the romans, but was conquered in the battle of Beneventum in 275 BC?
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Pyrrhus
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What does Kuhbach mean?
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Cowbrook
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What does agora mean?
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Marketplace in greek cities
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What is the choicest present you can give a man?
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A tool
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What were T’s first short clothes made out of?
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Yellow serge
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Where did T eat his dinner and think?
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Orchard wall
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Who was the chief swineherder?
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Kunz
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What is a gabardine?
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A coarse, loose frock coat.
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What is a postwagen?
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A stagecoach
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What direction does stagecoach go?
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Northward in the dead of night and southward visibly at eventide
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Where do all roads in Entepfuhl lead?
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To the end of the world
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Who met yearly in T’s cottage lobby?
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Swallows
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What did the swallows teach you?
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The mason craft
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What is the ring of care?
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Thread surrounding t in his youth, which becomes canopy, develops into Ring of necessity, and finally becomes ring of duty when man makes truce with necessity
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When does manhood begin?
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When man makes truce with necessity
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What is a merry Andrews?
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A clown or buffoon
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What is it the duty of all men to note down with accuracy?
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The characteristics and circumstances of their education
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What is Man’s universal duty and destiny?
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Obedience
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From where does reverence come?
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Fear
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Where do all roads in Entephfuhl lead?
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To the end of the world
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Beware of T, of ___!
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Spiritual Pride
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What was on the family coach?
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2 and 30 quarters
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What invaluable service did Gretchen do for T?
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Taught T about the Christian faith
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What town was Carlyle from?
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Ecclefechan
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How was T’s latin taught?
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Mechanically
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What color were T’s eyes?
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Hazel
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What ½ of man is in a young boy?
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passive half
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Carlyle’s early teacher?
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William Gullen
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What has fate appended to many a conquering hero?
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A tin kettle of ambition
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What was T’s school called?
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Hinderschlag Gymnaiusm (“Smite-Behind”)
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What does nature bid the strong to do?
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Tyrannize the weak.
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What was T’s nickname at school?
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The tearful; Der Weinende
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What zodiac bag provides info on T’s gymnasium days?
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Scorpio
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What did T call teachers?
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Hide bound pendants; gerund grinders
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What 2 authors did Carlyle allude to in discussing Andreas’s death?
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Virgil and Milton
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What did hinterschlag professors know about human soul?
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Could be acted on through appliance of birch rods
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Who does T think should be teachers?
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Dignitaries and priests, wielding birch rods on their thighs |
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After death, what can no longer harm us?
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Gehenna’s bailiffs (hell’s torments)
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From whom did Andreas Futterall descend?
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Henry the Fowler
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Zodiac bags with T’s university days?
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Sagittarius
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Where did T attend school?
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Nameless university
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What is Gehenna?
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Hell, place where they sacrificed children
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What did T do when he sat by the fountain?
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Super added ideas and capabilities
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To what does T compare europe’s high seminaries?
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Walled in enclosures in crim tartary
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What happens when the blind lead the blind?
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They both fall into the ditch
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Where did Carlyle go to school?
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Univ. of Edinburgh
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What have economists overlooked?
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The grim hypocrisy branch; ratio of wares to appearance of wares; statistics of imposture |
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What blessing does nature bestow upon man to keep him free of pain?
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Talent of being gullied
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What perpetuates itself like the mill-wheel?
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Reputation of nameless university professors unbelief
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What is Salamanca university?
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A school of theology and law, founded in 1230, the “little Rome” of Spain (famour in 15th and 16th centuries)
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When the hungry young asked their spiritual nurses for food, what were they told?
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Eat the east wind
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What is the highest of all possessions?
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Self-help
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What are the fever paroxysms of the human spirit?
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Skepticism and free thinking
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What is a charnal house?
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A house or vault where dead bodies or bones of the dead are stored.
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Who was T’s close friend at school?
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Herr Towgood
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What does Towgood mean?
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Tough gut
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What 2 things did Towgood teach T?
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1) Practical knowledge of English and their ways and 2) boxing
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what does “Frisch zu, bruder” mean?
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Quickly to work, brother
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What do utilitarian philosophers compare to the soul?
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Stomach
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What does Zahdarm mean?
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Tough gut
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What are the earliest tools?
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Books
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What is the role of government in utilitarianism?
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To promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number by rewarding and punishing
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What is a zeitbild?
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Temporary figure or temporary body of work
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What does thermaturgic mean?
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Wonder working
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What is the Scottish brassmith’s idea?
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James Watt’s steam engine
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What is the worst enemy of the prince of darkness?
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The thinking man
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What is the maximum of capability?
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Combination of inward and outward capabilities
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What is “my kingdom?”
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What I do (“not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom”)
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What is the hardest problem?
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To find, by study of oneself and the ground you stand on, what you combined inward and outward capability is
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What was T’s nearest duty?
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Law
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What is the one thing which saves man?
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Hunger
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What are bread studies?
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Professions
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What is the examen rigorosum?
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Third and final law exam for lawyers
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What zodiac bag contained info on T as auscultator?
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Pisces (fishes)
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What is an auscultator?
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Lawyer’s assistant who has passed his first law exam
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Who is there always life for?
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The living
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What did T get in answer to a cry for solid pudding?
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Invitation to aesthetic tea
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What is aesthetic tea?
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Social tea
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What did zhadarms (and Carlyle) view unfavorably?
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Outrooting of journalism
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How can doubt of any sort only be removed?
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Through action
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Who are zhadarms representation of?
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The Bullers (the first rich people Carlyle came into contact with)
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What is the riddle of the Sphinx?
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What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, and 3 in the evening? Answer- man
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What was Gnadigen Frau?
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Lady Zahdarm
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What is nottagen Frau?
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The house of countess Zahdarm
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When should all men be covered under barrels and rendered invisible?
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From ages 19-25. Until sadder and wiser, this is also when women of that age are most lovely
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What is the rule of 3?
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Multiple the 2nd by the third, divide the product by the 1st and the quotient is the answer
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What is the fraction of life?
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Lessen denominator rather than increase numerator; (happiness is the numerator and expectation is the denominator) (note- I think this is in everlasting yea chapter, see Fn. 5, p. 126)
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Who was the god of time?
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Chronos
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Who is Kronos?
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Greek divinity, dethroned his father Uranos, then devoured his own children to escape a like fate. Often mistaken for Chronos, greek god of time.
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What is the whole duty of man?
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To Work in the right direction
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Who is the son of time?
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T
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What 4 things is time used to represent?
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1) Evil and destruction, 2) a prison which shuts us out from the truth of eternity, 3) symbol, garment, or revelation of eternity, 4) man’s seedfield
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What is T’s favorite tone and dialect?
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Irony
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What is t’s grand principle for writing epitaphs?
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Be historical rather than lyrical
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What is the language of the devil?
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Sarcasm
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What was Zahdarms epitaph a comment (or satire) on?
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Corn laws and game preserving aristocracy
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Why did T work as an auscultator?
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For food and warmth
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Write Zahdarms epitaph:
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“Here lies Philip Zaehdarm, surnamed the Great, Count of Zaehdarm, of the Council of the Empire, Knight of the Golden Fleece, of the Garter and of the Black Vulture. Who during his sublunary existence, shot five thousand partridges: A hundred million weights of foods of various kinds, through himself, and through his servants, quadrupeds or bipeds, not by any means without racket in its course, he openly converted into manure. Now resting from labour, his works follow him. If you seek his monument, look at this heap. Begun (as given); finished (as given).”
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What is the spiritual electricity?
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Love
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What zodiac bag has T in love?
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Capricorn
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What is st. martin’s summer?
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Warm or mild weather in November. St. Martin’s day is November 11 (11/11)
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What is a Congreve?
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A powerful form of rocket, formerly used in war, inclosed in a metallic case; named after Sir William Congreve, the inventor (1772-1828)
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What is a relatio ex actis?
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Law report; t had just delivered his last one before he met Blumine
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What was ammon’s temple?
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Temple in Libyan desert, visited by Alexander the Great
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What color were Blumine’s eyes?
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Hazel
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What is preestablished harmony?
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Theory propounded by Lebnitz that changes in matter and mind are not mutually causal but merely concomitant from a preestablished pattern
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What is musical coffee?
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Evening refreshment
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What are three alternate names for blumine?
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Rose goddess, earth angel, calypso, goddess of flowers, Morningstar (only have to have 3 memorized)
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What does blumine literally mean?
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Goddess of Flowers
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What 3 women is Blumine based upon?
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Margaret Gordon, Catherine Aurora Kirkpatrick, Jane Welsh Carlyle
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What is the Queen of Hearts?
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Queen Elizabeth, daughter of James I. In book, T calls Blumine queen of hearts
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What is guilding genius (or guilding Damon)?
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The german romantic term meaning mental endowment peculiar to an individual determining his vocation and destiny.
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What is a philistine?
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Slang term applied to every non-student; also narrow-minded uncultivated utilitarian opponents to the spirit of art and enlightenment.
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How did T silence the philistine?
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Using the socratic method
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What is the heaven gate and hell gate of man?
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Fantasy
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What is gigmanity?
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Carlyle’s term for repectability with its thousand gigs.
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Who is Archimedes?
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discovered the principle of the lever, and is reputed to have said, “give me a place to stand on, and I will move the world.”
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At what cost can sense support herself handsomely?
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18 pence per day, in most countries
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What are Aeolian harps?
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Aeolus was god of winds, whose currents of air produced music when they passed through the harp.
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What is memnon’s statute?
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A statute erected by or in honor of Memnon (son of Tithonus and Eos, king of Aethiopia, hero in Trojan war) in the Thebian plain, supposed to emit a sound like the snapping asunder of achord, when struck by the first rays of rosy fingered aurora.
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What is a Montgolfier?
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Hot air balloon
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What made T immortal?
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Kiss from Blumine (comparison to Jesus- Judas’ betrayal made Christ immortal too)
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What does empyrean men?
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Highest heaven or heavenly sphere composed of sublimated fire, in ancient and medieval cosmology
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After Blumine, what 3 things could T realistically do?
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Go to Bedlam; write satanic poetry; blow his brains out
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What is a bedlam?
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Famous asylum for lunatics, St. Mary of Bethlehem in London
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What 2 things did T take with him from his home?
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His name and green silk
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What is a pilgenstab?
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A pilgrim’s staff
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What is tophet?
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Old testament term of uncertain meaning and entymology. Another name for hinnom, Gehenna in Milton
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Where does T first go on his Pilgrimage?
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Entepfuhl
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What does T go second on his pilgrimage?
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Nature
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Finish: Whoso can look on death will start at no ____
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Shadow
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What is a zeitgeist?
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Time spirit
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What direction was the barouche-and-four traveling?
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South, to heaven and England
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What does du himmel mean?
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Good heaven
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Who was on the barouche and four?
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Towgood and Blumine
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What epidemic of the romantics did Carlyle despise?
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View hunting (luxuriating in natural scenery; romantics talking about their surroundings too much)
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What was fortunatas and what is a fortunatas hat?
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Hero of a popular European tale, received from Fortune and inexhaustible purse and from the Sultan a wishing cap taking him any place he wished
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What is a lodestar?
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A star that guides. The lodestar is Ursa minor, containing the north star
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Who was Sultan Mahmoud?
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Mahmud II, The sultan of Turkey when Sartor was written.
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What is the end of man?
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An action, not a thought
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What is the enchiridion of Epictus?
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Manuel or handbook of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus. The book counseled to desire nothing but freedom and peace, to regard evil as appearance, and to find happiness in the exercise of will.
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Who was Epictetus?
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Stoic philosopher, once a slave, afterwards a freedman. Enchiridion of Epictus is about his discourses
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What is a fetish?
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A material object to which magical powers are ascribed
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Define everlasting no
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A denial of the validity and dignity of faith in the goodness of things.
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Who is the son of time?
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Teufelsdrockh
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What is man’s only possession?
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Hope
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What is man based upon?
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Hope
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What is the one thing needed for man’s well being?
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Faith
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What emphatically is man’s world to him?
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Place of hope
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What is Dr. Graham’s celestial bed?
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An elaborate bed supposed to cure sterility in married people
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Define excellent passivity?
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Renunciation, denial of self-satisfaction
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How does Carlyle define hope?
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Dynamic, creative faith, a religious attitude rather than a merely practical one
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What is the profit and loss philosophy?
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Utilitarianism, materialism
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What is the infinite nature of Duty?
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Duty to be performed, not from a consideration of reward and punishment, but from conviction of the non-temporal, non-spatial good in performing it.
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What is the impossible precept?
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Know thyself
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What is the partially possible precept?
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Know what thou canst work at
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What is hell st?
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Rue Saint Thomas de l’Enfer
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Where did T shed his only tear as an adult?
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When he recited Faust’s death song
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Where did T experience his baphometic fire baptism?
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Rue St. Thomas de l’Enfer
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At Rue Saint Thomas de l’Enfer, what took the place of fear?
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Defiance
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What happened at Tue St. Thomas de l’Enfer?
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Defiance took the place of fear
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What is another word for baphometic fire baptism?
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Spiritual newbirth
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What is a baphomet?
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Imaginary symbol or double head idol which the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping in their secret rites
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What happens to the satanic school?
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It is given judicial notice to quit
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How is man’s activity and attainment preserved?
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Tradition
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How are generations woven together? |
Tradition
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What does thaumatergic mean?
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Wonder working
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Why are books thaumatergic?
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Because they can persuade men
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What are the 3 visible and tangible products of the past?
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Cities, fields, and books
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Which is the most important of the 3 products of the past?
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Books
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What did war take away from the men on the Wagram battlefield?
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Their life and virtue
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Who are the peripatetic?
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The name given to followers of artistotle who followed him around
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How was the wall of china constructed?
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Using 2nd rate masonry
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Who inspired the texts of the book of Revelations?
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Great men
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What did T call Napoleon?
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An ideologist
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What is the Chinese Carbonari?
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Secret revolutionary society in Italy in the 1800s (AKA the White Water Roses)
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Who is the divine missionary?
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Napoleon
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Through what does Napoleon preach?
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Throat of a cannon
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What took place under the Tree at Treisnitz on the Jenna highway?
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T, disguised as a tavern waiter, listened to Schiller and Goethe collaborate on a book
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What is the great doctrine?
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tools to him that can use them
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When did the north cape incident take place?
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A June midnight
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What was T wearing at the North cape incident?
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Light blue Spanish cloak
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What direction were the people at the North Cape moving?
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Toward the deep dark ocean
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What does gunpowder do?
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Makes all men alike; equalizes
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What is the grand spiritual doctor?
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Experience
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What is the God-given mandate?
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Work thou in well doing
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What is the clay-given mandate? |
Eat thou and be filled
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What is the gospel of freedom?
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Work thou in well doing; man as his own deliverer; the highest of all possessions is self help
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What is the first preliminary moral act of man?
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Annihilation of self
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What is the spreckhorn?
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Peak of terror in the swiss alps
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What will make one shoe-black happy?
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God’s infinite universe, no less, no more
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What is the black spot in man’s sunshine?
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Shadow of ourselves
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Where does man’s unhappiness come from?
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His greatness
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Life can only begin with what?
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Renunciation
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What is unity divided by zero?
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Infinity
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What did Carlyle criticize Voltaire for?
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Lack of religious imagination, solely focusing on logic and wit. Ideas Carlyle thought only relevant in 18th century
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How can the fraction of life be increased?
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Not by increasing the numerator, but by decreasing the denominator
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Define the everlasting Yea
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Love not pleasure, love God
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What is the worship of sorrow?
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Acceptance of suffering as Christian duty; everlasting yea; half duty of passiveness
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What is plenary inspiration?
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Nature of man
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Conviction is worthless until it converts itself to what?
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Conduct
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What is the half duty of man?
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The passive half (acceptance of Christian suffering)
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When is the hour of spiritual enfranchisement?
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When you discover your “America” is here or nowhere (when the ideal world is revealed)
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Which duty should man undertake? |
That which lies nearest
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What is the only way to remove doubt?
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Through action
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How does man find his second duty?
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Do the one that lies nearest, and the second will become clear
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What is the beginning of creation?
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Light
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What is the first climax of the book?
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Work while it is called Today; for the Night cometh, wherein no man can work.
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What was Carlyle’s nearest duty?
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Translating German Romanticism (upon finding this, he underwent his conversion)
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What are the 5 stages of man?
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Growth, entanglement, unbelief, almost reprobation, into a certain clearer state of what he himself considers to be conversion
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What was the choice of Hercules?
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Between two women, virtue, and vice.
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What is the greatest working tool?
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A pen
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What is to the appearance the most fleeting?
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Sound
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What is the divine commandment?
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Thou shalt not steal
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Who wore a wax nose?
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Hofrath heuschrecke
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What is psyche?
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Greek personification of the human sole; her emblem is the butterfly
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What is significant about Greek Fire?
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It burns under water
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What is perfectability?
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Doctrine that man, naturally good, can be redeemed from his present low and enslaved state
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What is the diet of worms?
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Imperial assembly held in 1521 to prevent the reformation
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What is cordwainery?
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Shoe making in cordovan (Spanish) leather; George Fox’s trade
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What was perhaps the most remarkable incident in modern history?
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George Fox making his perennial suit of leather
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What was the greatest of the moderns?
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George Fox
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Who wore leather breeches?
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George Fox
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What was George Fox by trade?
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A shoe maker
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What are shovel hats? What is shovel battery a symbol for?
|
Broad brimmed hats usually worn by clergy; Carlyle’s satire for religious hypocrisy
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What advice did the old clergy give to George Fox?
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Drink beer and dance with girls
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What are did T never practice?
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Historical oil painting
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Who was greater, Fox or Diogenes?
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Fox, he preached in love, not scorn
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Who was the greatest of the ancients?
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Diogenes
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What people were renowned for their dull wit?
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The Boeotians
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What is the shortest chapter in the book?
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Church Clothes, Ch. 2, Book Third
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When does man’s belief gain infinitely?
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When he convinces another of his belief
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What is the “very purpose for which Sartor Resartus was written?”
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To rehabilitate religion for modern man by vindicating its essential truth and showing the need of the new forms to express it
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What is the wonder of wonders?
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Society
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Who first wove church clothes?
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Society
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Who did Carlyle write to please?
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himself
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What Does Sartor Resartus mean?
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The tailor re-tailored
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How many total books and chapters, and how many chapter in each book?
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3 books, 33 chapters total. 11, 10, 12
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What does the quote on the cover mean?
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My inheritance, how wide and fair! Time is my seed-field, to time I’m heir (Goethe)
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First and last words of the book?
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Considering; Quarrel
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What does Diogenes Teufelsdrockh mean?
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God Born Devil’s Dung
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What was T’s theorem?
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Society is founded upon cloth
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What is Sartor Resartus the result of? |
The logical result of Carlyle’s intense study of the character & mind of German romanticists.
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What are space and time?
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The deepest of all illusory appearances
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What is the organ of the god-like?
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Fantasy
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What does “Sprechen Ist Silbern, Schweigen ist Golden” mean?
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Speech is silver, silence is golden
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What does Six vos non vobis mean?
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Thus ye labor, but not for yourselves
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What is the element in which great things fashion themselves together?
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Silence
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What is of time, and what is of eternity?
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Speech; silence
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What are the highest of all symbols?
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Religious
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What is fearful unbelief? |
Not believing in yourself
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How many tailors does it take to make a man?
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Nine
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What is the question of questions?
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What especially is a miracle?
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What does “non sibi sed aliis” mean?
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Not for yourself, but for others
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What is the choicest present one can make to a child?
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Book
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What is the tissue of tissues? |
Vestural cloth
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Who are the 2 people T most honors?
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The toilworn craftsman & the inspired thinker
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What is the outward sign of the body politic?
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Government
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Who are the pests of society?
|
Ironic young men
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What is reason?
|
Moral intuition, superior to understanding
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Who is the book dedicated to?
|
Karl Young
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What are the site and materials whereby man is built?
|
Body and cloth
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What does Laissez-faire mean?
|
Hands off. In political theory, individuals are the judges and determinants of their own interests
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What is the world of spirit?
|
The world out of clothes
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What is the Palingesia?
|
New birth of society
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What does “Sic itur ad astra” mean?
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Thus one travels to the stars
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What is nature’s favorite?
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Man
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What is the stook of duds?
|
Shock of rags
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What are the 2 monastic vows of the poor slave? What is the third?
|
Poverty and obedience; chastity
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What is the positive electricity of a nation? What is the negative?
|
Money (+), Hunger (-)
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How is friendship possible?
|
Mutual devotion to the good and true
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What could no pilgrim ask the watchman?
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What of the night?
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What is falsehood?
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The essence of all sin
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What is a tragedy?
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That a man should die ignorant who had the capacity for knowledge
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Who was Toomtabard? what does the word mean?
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John de Balliol; Empty Gown
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Who are the creators of divinity?
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Tailors
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What was the significance of the Fortunatas Hat with respect to the 2 phantasms? |
Can be used to overcome the phantasm of space but not of time
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What is the tailor’s goose?
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Tailor’s iron
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What is gridiron? |
A network
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Sartor Resartus stems from what desire/enterprise?
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Intrinsic inquiry into Germanic mind and character
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What are the 2 forces necessary to the state?
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Thinkers with sound inspiration and labourers ready to build a new world
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What is man’s true nature?
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Naked animal
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How many points are on a compass?
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33 – 32 plus one in the middle
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What is the mystery of mysteries?
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Man
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When was Carlyle born? When did he die?
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Dec. 4, 1795; Feb. 5, 1881
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What is the Talmud?
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First 5 books of the bible and religious law of the Hebrews
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What is the only place where thought and virtue will work?
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Silence and secrecy
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Who were the Helots?
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The original inhabitants of Laconia, who were enslaved by the Spartans. Systematically killed when their numbers grew too large
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What was the Spartans wiser method for dealing with the Helots?
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They went out and hunted the Helots.
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What is the time vesture of the eternal?
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Heaven and Earth
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What is the noblest and highest of men?
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Priests
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Who is the falsest and basest of all men?
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Sham-priests
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What is the soul of all good manners and virtues? |
shame
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What is the longest muscle in the body?
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Sartorius
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What is a tubelcain?
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Toolmaker
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What are the vestures of human existence?
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Church Clothes
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What is the muscular tissue of society?
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Industry
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What is the nervous tissue of society?
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Religion
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What 2 things are speech of?
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1) silver, 2) time
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What 2 things are silence of?
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1) gold; 2) eternity
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Where does bees work?
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in the dark
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Where does thought work?
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Silence
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How many men can one man feed in a year?
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10 (9 others plus himself)
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What is the saddest spectacle?
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The poor perishing
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Where did Carlyle get Sic Vos Non Vobis from?
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Virgil
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What is our ultimate political evangel?
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Tools to him that can handle them
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What is the utmost thou hast in thee?
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To produce
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What are motive millwrights?
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Utilitarians
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What 3 things does the Phoenix arise out of?
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Old clothes, outworn institutions, organic filaments
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What is the universal sustenance of the poor slave?
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Potatoes and point
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What are T’s last words?
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Es geht an (It is beginning).
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What is the law of perseverance?
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By nature man hates change
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What law is the deepest of man?
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Perseverance
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What is customs cleverest trick?
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Persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous
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What does Queen Elizabeth say to 18 tailors?
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Good morning, gentlemen both
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What are the 2 immeasurable phantasms?
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Hypocrisy and atheism
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Who is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all?
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The philosopher
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From what do the strong educe nobler wealth?
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Poverty
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Where does, in motley vision, the whole Pageant of Existence pass awfully before us?
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Monmouth Street
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What is the only way for man to feel exalted?
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In reverently bowing down before the Higher
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What are the sacred books of the Dandy? |
Fashionable novels
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What does the casting of a pebble from one’s hand do?
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Alters the center of gravity of the universe forever (Newton quote)
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Understanding is thy winder but ___ __ __ ___?
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Fantasy is thy eye
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What happened to Sir Hudibra’s sword?
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It ate itself
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What is potheen?
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Illicit Irish whiskey
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From what city/country was Joseph Lustrat born?
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Vichy, France
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What is the second climax of the book?
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We arte such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep
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Who was JFK’s secretary of state?
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Dean Rusk
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What year in school was T when his dad died?
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3rd year of gymnasium
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How does T respond to the Everlasting no?
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I am not thine, but Free, and forever hate thee.
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Where was the Phoenix located?
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Arabia
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What is a rhizophagous?
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Root-eater
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What stifles and suspends thought?
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Speech
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What did Charles Herty teach?
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Chemistry
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What is T’s sole guidance?
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Eternal unrest
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What is the skin of society?
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Government
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What is the muscle and bone of society?
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Industry
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Where 3 types of individuals comprise the drudgesect?
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White negroes, drudge, ragged beggar
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What are the 3 types of churches?
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1) those which truly prophesize; 2) those which try but fail; 3) those which have grown dumb with age
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What is the holiest temple?
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Man
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What are organic filaments?
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The threads of an old society used to build a new society; the elements out of which a new Phoenix will arise out of the ashes of the old society
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Who is the peasant saint?
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Carlyle’s father and Robert Burns’ father
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What is Haggard Darkness?
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Fear and indignation
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What is the divinest symbol?
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Jesus
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Through only what can society be saved?
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Through silent leadership and unquestionable obedience
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What will not work except in darkness?
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Bees
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What will not work except in silence?
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Thought
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What will not work except in secrecy?
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True Virtue
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What is the Phoenix?
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A mythical fabulous bird which lived for 500 years, perished in flames by its own acts, and was reborn in youthful freshness from it’s own ashes
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What 3 things must intervene before the Phoenix’s death birth is accomplished?
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Long time, struggle, and suffering
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What is independence?
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Rebellion
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What does the Pope’s triple crown symbolize?
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Sovereignty over the 3 realms of spiritual, temporal, and purgatorial
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What is “field’s lane” a reference to?
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Thievery
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What is true religious loyalty manifested through?
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Hero worship
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What is Job’s news?
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Bad news
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What makes Dotards/cowards of us all?
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Custom
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What is the greatest of all weavers?
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Custom
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What is a dandy?
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A clothes-wearing man, a man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of clothes (while others dress to live, he lives to dress)
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For what does a dandy ask?
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Recognition
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What is the true aim?
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Blessedness (i.e. deep fulfillment of man’s true self)
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What 2 forces are necessary in the coming reconstruction?
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Inspired thinkers and laborers willing to build a new world
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What is a seed grain that cannot die?
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Act and word
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With whom do we find feud or favor? |
No one save indeed the devil
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What is the most powerful geometric shape?
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Triangle |
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What were we to have instead of denial and destruction?
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Affirmation and reconstruction
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What is Calenture?
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Spanish for Fever
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What did the Brahmins oppose? |
Killing animals
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What is a hadjee?
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A pilgrim who has made his pilgrimage to Mecca
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What is the difference between the inspired prophet and the double barreled game preserver?
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The inner of one has been fostered into generous development; that of the other, crashed down perhaps by animal digestion
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In what does salvation lie?
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Action
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Who is the apostle of the gentiles?
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Paul
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What is the necropolis?
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Cemetery or city of the dead
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What do lower people desire everywhere?
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War
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What is the deepest law of nature?
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That she be constant
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Who is the author and writer of nature?
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God
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What element held T’s apartment together?
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Dust |
