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A Twentieth Century Idealist

A Twentieth Century Idealist

by Henry Pettit

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Author
Pettit, Henry, 1842-1921
Credits
E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Susan Carr, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Americans -- Foreign countries -- Fiction
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 64612
Release Date
February 23, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.This ebook was created in honour of Distributed Proofreaders’ 20th Anniversary.
  2. 2.A TWENTIETH CENTURY IDEALIST
  3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS AND PLAN OF THE BOOK
  4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5.PROLOGUE — I INQUISITIVE ADMIRATION
  6. 6.II HOW THE PROFESSOR WAS WON
  7. 7.PART FIRST — III ADELE HERSELF
  8. 8.IV ADELE HEARS THE WORDS OF A SONG
  9. 9.V AFTER DARK IN THE PARK
  10. 10.VI AN AVATAR IN THE OCCIDENT—THE THEOPHANY OF SPRING
  11. 11.VII OFF TO ASIA
  12. 12.PART SECOND — VIII A STUDIO FOR IMPRESSIONS
  13. 13.IX A BUDGET OF NEW SCIENCES
  14. 14.X PALMISTRY POSES AS MENTAL SCIENCE
  15. 15.XI AMATEUR MENTAL SCIENCE
  16. 16.XII AMATEUR TACTICS—A FRIGHTFUL CURE
  17. 17.XIII ADELE’S MEDITATIONS
  18. 18.XIV ANOTHER COMMOTION—RELIGIOUS-CURATIVE
  19. 19.XV TWO SIMULTANEOUS SOLILOQUIES
  20. 20.XVI COURAGE VERSUS FOOLHARDINESS
  21. 21.XVII TWO RESCUES—AND TWO GIRLS
  22. 22.XVIII A SENSATION VERSUS AN IMPRESSION
  23. 23.XIX GIBRALTAR APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS
  24. 24.XX THE ARTISTIC SENSE
  25. 25.XXI AN ARTIST WITH DOUBLE VISION
  26. 26.XXII THE SECRET OF A LIFE
  27. 27.XXIII OLYMPUS—COURT FESTIVITIES
  28. 28.XXIV THE GODS INTERFERE
  29. 29.XXV APHRODITE RISES FROM THE SEA
  30. 30.XXVI INTERMEZZO—ALLEGRO
  31. 31.XXVII INTERMEZZO—ANDANTE
  32. 32.XXVIII THE AFTERGLOW
  33. 33.PART THIRD — XXIX ILLNESS AND HALLUCINATION
  34. 34.XXX CONVALESCENCE AND COMMON SENSE
  35. 35.XXXI OFF TO THE HIMALAYAS
  36. 36.XXXII THE START UPWARDS
  37. 37.XXXIII A GLIMPSE OF THE PRIMITIVE
  38. 38.THE HIMALAYA CATHEDRAL — XXXIV ADELE SEES THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS
  39. 39.XXXV HIMALAYA CATHEDRAL BY THE SUPREME ARCHITECT
  40. 40.XXXVI PROGRESS OF THE BUILDING
  41. 41.XXXVII PRIMATE OF THE CATHEDRAL—EX CATHEDRA
  42. 42.XXXVIII INTERMEZZO—THE VOICE IN NATURE
  43. 43.XXXIX ON A PINNACLE IN NATURE
  44. 44.XL A GLIMPSE OF TAOISM
  45. 45.XLI PROCESSIONAL BEFORE THE VEIL
  46. 46.XLII ON HOLY GROUND
  47. 47.XLIII SACRIFICE
  48. 48.XLIV THE EVERYDAY RITUAL
  49. 49.XLV RITUAL OF THE HUMAN RACE
  50. 50.FOOTNOTES:

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