Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...palace at Knossos to have been of earlier date than the strongholds at Tiryns and Mycenae, as Homer intimates, this might be explained by noting that Crete was at the centre while Mycenae and Tiryns were more nearly on the outskirts of Mycenaean civilization, and that Knossos was further back in point of time than either of the other places. There is ample proof at hand to justify this, as all possible comparisons show the more practised and metropolitan skill in Crete and at Knossos...
...thirteenth century the belief in immortality had reached pre-eminence, but there followed a reaction to scepticism that was almost complete. Men fell back on materialism and natural science and the theory of immortality to be established today must answer the questioning doubts of both of these...
Then, lastly, materialistic science falls back on the great theory of the metamorphosis of motion. The vibrations which produce the senses, says materialism, set the brain into motion, which in turn arouses consciousness and through it the nerves and the body are set in motion. This argument, however, must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical...
...district by primitive mankind. He found on Cretan engraved stones a system of Cretan pictographs corresponding to the Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make out that these Western systems of writing, centered in Crete, go back to the date of the early Egyptian Hieratic script selected as the model of the Phoenician alphabet by Count Emmanuel de Rouge's theory and thus, if theory is abandoned, and a derivation from Cretan pictographs is substituted, we have a more or less ascertained history to substitute...
...kick Dardard out. But he is not to be put off, and, to conciliate the father, offers to buy 40,000 pairs of his gloves. Pontbicket at once changes his manner and agrees to everything. Dardard goes out to make arrangements for furnishing the apartments, but when he comes back he finds Pontbicket ready to kick him out again. Colardeau, a simple old friend of Pontbicket's has been engaged to his daughter for sometime, and naturally objects to Dardard's in tension. He, therefore, has suggested that it is all a hoax as it is the time...