And he knew, this intensely wise snake, that the one way to make humanity pay more than the price of mental consciousness was to pervert woman into mentality: to stimulate her into the upper flow of consciousness.
But we are mental creatures, and with the explosive and mechanistic aid of ideas we can pervert the whole psyche.
The talk about a third sex, or about the indeterminate sex, is just to pervert the issue.
All that we do is to pervert the child into a ghastly state of self-consciousness, making him affectedly try to show off as we wish him to show off.
These enlarged bodies must likewise be spiritualized or they will pervert the soul,--as is proved by every degraded form of institutional life.
They said: "Art thou come to us to pervert us from the faith in which we found our fathers, and that you twain shall bear rule in this land?
Verily, they who believe not and pervert from the way of God, have indeed erred with error wide of truth.
Verily those who believe not, and who pervert others from the way of God, and then die in unbelief, God will not forgive.
Shall not the malison of God be on these unjust doers, Who pervert others from the way of God, and seek to make it crooked, and believe not in a life to come?
For when our distinct signs are recited to them, they say, "This is merely a man who would fain pervert you from your father's Worship.
He ought to have been familiar with the unchanging practice of the Jews to pervert Scripture by substituting a material meaning for a spiritual one, in order to gain glory among men.
Heed thou not the idle talk of the people of the Bayán, who pervert the meaning of every word.
Ministers, ambassadors and other state dignitaries had plotted assiduously to pervert its purpose, had instigated the successive banishments of its Founders, and maliciously striven to undermine its foundations.
But at the same time it behoves Masons to beware of the insidious attempts that are being made by irregular secret societies to infiltrate the Craft and pervert its true principles.
So it is in Gnosticism and Manicheism that we find evidence of the first attempts to pervert Christianity.
The attempt to pervert all conceptions of beauty in the sphere of art serves to pave the way for moral perversion.
For you well know that the modern enemies of religion and human society, with a most diabolical spirit, direct all their artifices to pervert the minds and hearts of youth from their earliest years.
Hence it is an axiom that the change or perversion of the principles by which anything was produced, is the destruction of that very thing; if you can change or pervert the principles from which anything springs, you destroy it.
Yet how, otherwise, is the justice of God to be invoked against those who pervert judgment and will not receive the sincere defence of a dying man?
The sovereign himself can never have either interest or inclination topervert the order of justice, or to oppress the great body of the people.
Second, law and moral education ought to coöperate in suppressing influences which seek deliberately to poison or pervert the public mind.
Second, everyone who can distinguish between license and liberty must agree that we should limit the influence of individuals and institutions which suppress minority opinion, and distort facts in the effort to pervert Public Opinion.
It is for these reasons that we are not only solemnly bound to administer our lore only to those who will not misuse and pervert it, but that we place our ordeal in tests that purify the passions and elevate the desires.
Can I not trust that enough of power yet remains to me to baffle or to daunt the Phantom, if it seek to pervert the gift?
Mr. Mitford, constantly endeavouring topervert the simple honesty of Herodotus to a sanction of despotic governments, carefully slurs over this remarkable passage.
This case is so fatal to the theory of all Abolitionists who admit the canonical authority of the Epistle, that desperate efforts are made to pervert its meaning.
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
For Elymas it was chastisement, which might lead him to cease to pervert the ways of the Lord, and himself begin to walk in them.
But Gregory speaks truth; only they misunderstand and perverthis words.
This impious and desperate tyranny is fostered by the pope's disciples, who here drag in and pervert that saying of Christ, "He that heareth you heareth me.
I can ne'er The love of Gotham from this bosom tear; Can ne'er so far true royalty pervert From its fair course, to do my people hurt.
Hard times when Justice, without fear, Dare not bring forth to public ear The names of those who dare offend 'Gainst Justice, and perverther end!
I think that you are a pervert hiding deep in your paint so that women won't see you for what you are.
A pervert who shows naked pictures of women to strangers on trains?
There were cases in which he vehemently contended with such persons--when they strove to poison and pervert Christians who had learned the better way.
The Pharisees applied themselves to turn the religion of Israel into a soul-withering business of formalism and pride; and Paul's opponents strove to pervert to like effect even the gracious and life-giving gospel of Christ.
Yet the pursuit was one which could not fail to pervert the purposes of the Popes and give a sinister character to all they did.
It gratified their spite to pervertinsultingly the titles of the Frankish princes.
You mean "yes," I must take your negative as an affirmative, you pervert your mother tongue, you know you do.
The first, of bargain and contract for reward topervert justice, pendente lite.
It was found, however, that while the city retained the power of electing the sheriffs, all these attempts to pervert justice would be fruitless.
There were only two other occasions when he had it in his power to pervert the law, for the purpose of pleasing the court, during the present reign.
It may be plain from this that if man saw divine providence plainly, he would inject himself into the order and tenor of its course and pervert and destroy them.
The human being joins the Lord only in some external things and if he did in internal things also, he would pervert and destroy the whole order and tenor of the course of divine providence.
Second: If man were in internals at the same time he would pervert and destroy the whole order and tenor of divine providence.
If they were judges, they pervert judgment and exercise power over the laws.
And from many passages in the Word it is clear that those who do not pervert that life are said to be His sons and to be born from Him.
If man saw divine providence plainly he would inject himself into the order and tenor of its course and pervert and destroy them.
If man saw divine providence plainly, he would inject himself into the order and tenor of its course, and pervert and destroy them.
