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Things to be worked into The Threshold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2026

James Machin
Affiliation:
Birkbeck University of London
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Summary

Of Christianity—morally right, intellectually wrong.

Mutiny against the dead men.

The principal export of Great Britain to the United States is the United States

Magnetic idea for Cullingworth.

Outer shell of iron for man-of-war.

To see clearly not the thing itself, but beneath below and on either side of it to perceive its bearing to other things, and its true place in the eternal harmony of the Universe, that is the province of Genius. It was industry and wisdom which classified every group of animals under their just headings, but it was Genius which sketched in the missing joints and fitted everything into the continuous ladder of life. The Germans heap faggots re. Amiel.

Repelled by the publicity of the country he came to London for solitude.

My spirit in the next world should I be able from some distant planet &c. (Generalia)

In a germinating egg cleavage sets in, many times repeated, but the cleaved portions coalesce at last into a connected whole. So it shall be with the Anglo Celtic race.

Any form of Imperial Federation which does not include the whole of North America is incomplete &c. (Generalia)

The debate of the Cheese mites &c. &c.

A Doctor's paradise where all the people are ill and rich.

The average young man thinks there is more meaning in a woman's actions than there really is. He wants to put every smile & glance down to some deep lying cause when there is none.

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