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Presidential Decree No. 73 (Marcos)

, a new Constitution of the Philippines has been approved by the 1971 Constitutional Convention;

, pursuant to Article XV of the present Constitution, the proposed new Constitution shall be valid when approved by a majority of the votes cast at an election at which it is submitted to the people for their ratification;

, the 1971 Constitutional Convention has adopted Resolution No. 5843 proposing "to President Ferdinand E. Marcos that a decree be issued calling a plebiscite for the ratification of the proposed New Constitution on such appropriate date as he shall determine and providing for the necessary funds therefor;"

, Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, do hereby order and decree the following:

Plebiscite. — The proposed Constitution of the Philippines approved by the 1971 Constitutional Convention shall be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection at a plebiscite to be held on January 15, 1973, in accordance with the provisions of this Decree.

Publication of the Constitution. — The proposed Constitution shall be published in full in English and in Pilipino, to be translated by the Institute of National Language, once in the Official Gazette and in three issues of at least two newspapers of national circulation not later than two weeks before the plebiscite.

Printed copies of the Constitution shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each provincial, city, municipal, and municipal district government building and in at least two other conspicuous places in the city, municipality, or municipal district at least thirty days before the plebiscite and in a conspicuous place in each polling place at least fifteen days before the plebiscite. Said copies shall remain posted until after the holding of the plebiscite.

At least five copies of the Constitution shall be kept in each polling place to be made available for examination by qualified voters during plebiscite day. Whenever practicable, copies in the principal local dialects, as may be determined by the Commission on Elections, shall also be kept in each polling place.

The Department of Public Information shall, in addition, distribute printed copies of the proposed Constitution to all government offices, agencies and instrumentalities, including national, provincial, city, municipal, municipal district and barrio governments, and to civic, religious, educational, business, labor and trade organizations or institutions, and through the use of all forms of mass communication, endeavor to disseminate full information on the provisions of the proposed Constitution.

Freedom of Information and Discussion. — The people shall be fully informed and enlightened on the provisions of the proposed Constitution and may discuss the same freely and publicly in order that they can vote intelligently to ratify or reject it. Provided, however, That the discussion shall be limited to the proposed Constitution and shall not in any manner tend to cause disorder or endanger the security of the state.

Provisions Governing Plebiscite. — The provisions of the Election Code of 1971, insofar as they are not inconsistent herewith, shall apply to the conduct of the plebiscite.

The provisions of the Election Code of 1971 regarding rights and obligations of political parties and candidates, shall not apply to the plebiscite.

Plebiscite Calendar. — The periods and dates to be observed for the performance of certain pre-plebiscite acts shall be as indicated in the Plebiscite Calendar appended hereto: Provided, however, That if on account of insurmountable difficulties, any of said periods or dates cannot reasonably be possible to observe, the Commission on Elections may fix another period or date in order that the voters shall not be deprived of their right of suffrage. The Commission shall also fix the period or date for the performance of other pre-plebiscite acts not included in the calendar.

Registration of Voters. — Any qualified voter who is not registered in the permanent list of voters shall in order that he may vote at the plebiscite, register with the city, municipality or municipal district wherein he is a resident on any day, including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 8:00 o'clock to 12:00 o'clock in the morning and from 1:00 o'clock to 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon, not later than the date indicated in the calendar. There shall be no registration of voters before the board of inspectors.

All election registration boards as presently constituted shall continue to act as such in connection with the registration of voters for the plebiscite. In cases where action by the election registration board on the application for registration of voters is unduly delayed because of the failure or refusal, after due notice, of any members thereof other than the election registrar to act as such, or in case of any vacancy in said board, the election registrar may designate any other teacher or registered voter of the city, municipality or municipal district, subject to the provisions of Section 106 of the Election Code of 1971 to act in place of the absent member or to fill the vacancy.

The decision of the courts of first instance, city courts and municipal courts of the provincial capitals, in inclusion and exclusion cases, shall be final and immediately executory.

Current List of Voters: Preparation and Publication. — The board of inspectors provided in the next succeeding section shall on the second Saturday before plebiscite day, meet at their respective polling places from seven o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the afternoon to prepare and certify three copies of the current list of voters, by transferring thereto the names of the voters appearing in the existing precinct book of voters. Before seven o'clock in the morning of this day, the election registrar shall deliver the precinct books of voters to the chairmen of the boards of inspectors who shall retain custody thereof until they are returned to the election registrar after the plebiscite. After preparing the current list and before it adjourns, the board shall close and seal the precinct book of votes and make a certificate that the approved applications contained therein, stating the exact number, are complete for the precinct. The chairman of the board shall see to it that the precinct book of voters shall remain closed and sealed until it is opened for use on plebiscite day.

For purposes of public information, the poll clerk shall before leaving the polling place, post a copy of the current list in a secure and conspicuous place at or near the door of the polling place where it can be conveniently consulted by interested parties; and shall, at the first hour of the working day following the preparation of the current list, deliver a certified copy thereof to the election registrar in whose office said copy shall be open to the public for inspection during regular office hours. The chairman of the board shall retain his copy of the current list so prepared which may be inspected by the public in his residence or office during regular office hours.

Board of Inspectors. — Not later than twenty days before plebiscite day, the Commission on Elections shall appoint a board of inspectors for each election precinct to be composed of a chairman and two members, one of whom shall be designated concurrently as poll clerk, and all of whom shall be public school teachers, preference being given to civil service eligibles who have been in the service for more than five years and are registered voters of the city, municipality or municipal district. In case of non-availability of public school teachers, the Commission may appoint private school teachers, or any officer or employee in the civil service who is a registered voter of the city, municipality or municipal district to fill the vacancies, or, in the absence of all the said substitutes, any registered voter of the precinct. Public school teachers who are appointed members of the board of inspectors, and their substitutes may vote in their respective precincts where they are assigned on plebiscite day, Provided, That they are qualified voters of the city, municipality or municipal district where they are assigned and that before the precinct book of voters are closed and sealed, their approved applications for registration shall have been transferred to the precincts where they are assigned as board members, under such rules that the Commission may provide.

In places where, by reason of deteriorating peace and order conditions, public school teachers and their substitutes are unable or unwilling to discharge their duties, the Commission may appoint ROTC cadets, who are at least 21 years of age, as members of the boards of inspectors to insure a free, orderly and honest plebiscite therein.

The members of the board of inspectors shall receive the same rates of pay for services rendered in connection with the plebiscite as those provided in the Election Code of 1971.

Watchers. — The Commission on Elections may designate in each polling place, on recommendation of civic groups, not more than six watchers, who are of good reputation and who shall not have been convicted of any offense nor have pending against them any complaint or information for any election offense. They shall have the same rights and duties as those provided in the Election Code for watchers.

Precincts and Polling Places. — The election precincts actually established in the last election shall continue with such adjustments, changes or new divisions as the Commission on Elections may find necessary. For purposes of the plebiscite, the maps of precincts required by Section 84 of the Election Code shall be deemed sufficiently published if the Commission posts copies thereof in the city, municipality or municipal government building and in three other conspicuous places in the city, municipality or municipal district.

The location of polling places designated in the preceding election shall continue with such changes as the Commission may find necessary provided that each polling place shall have at least three voting booths.

Official Ballots. — The official ballot to be used in the plebiscite shall be printed in English and shall be in the form and size to be prescribed by the Commission on Elections. It shall contain on the face thereof the following:

Fill out this ballot secretly inside the booth. Do not put any distinctive mark in any part of this ballot.

Proposed by the 1971 Constitutional Convention on November 30, 1972, is being submitted to the people in this plebiscite, for ratification or rejection, pursuant to the provisions of Article XV of the present Constitution.

To vote for the ratification of the Constitution, the voter shall write the word "YES" or its equivalent in Pilipino or local dialect in the blank space after the question; to vote for the rejection thereof, he shall write the word "NO" or its equivalent in Pilipino or local dialect.

 * Do you approve the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines as proposed by the 1971 Constitutional Convention on November 30, 1972?

The official ballots may be printed by letter or offset method of printing. The ballots shall be bound in separate books of one-hundred ballots each. Each city, municipality and municipal district shall be furnished official ballots at the rate of one and one tenth ballots for every registered voter in the next preceding election.

Plebiscite Returns. — The board of inspections shall prepare and sign four copies of the plebiscite returns in their respective polling places on a form to be prescribed by the Commission on Elections. One copy shall be deposited inside the ballot box, one copy each shall be delivered personally by the board to the election registrar and to the city, municipal or municipal district treasurer, and the original copy shall be transmitted to the Commission on Elections in such manner as it may direct.

Canvass of the Returns by the City, Municipal and Municipal District Boards of Canvassers. — At six o'clock in the afternoon of plebiscite day, the city, municipal or municipal district board of canvassers shall meet for the puurpose of canvassing the plebiscite returns for the city, municipality or municipal district, as the case may be. The city, municipal or municipal district treasurer shall produce before the board the returns already received by him from the different precincts. The board shall canvass continuously until all the returns are read, but may suspend the canvass only for the purpose of awaiting other returns and shall resume immediately upon receipt of such returns. Upon completion of the canvass, the board shall prepare and sign a certificate of canvass of all the votes cast for "YES" and all the votes cast for "NO" supported by a statement of votes by precincts.

The board of canvassers shall prepare the certificate of canvass and the supporting statement by precinct in triplicate in one writing in the form prescribed by the Commission on Elections. The copies of the certificate and statement shall be enclosed in envelops furnished by the Commission on Elections and distributed as follows: the original copy shall be delivered to the Commission on Elections in the manner it may direct the second copy shall be transmitted to the Provincial Treasurer for safekeeping and the third copy shall be kept on file in the office of the city, municipal or municipal district treasurer.

The members of the board of canvassers shall each receive a fixed compensation of thirty pesos for actual services rendered in the board.

The Commission may, upon recommendation of civic, religious and educational organizations, appoint three watchers to be present at, and take note of all the proceed- the rightproceedings of the board of canvassers. The watchers shall have the right [sic] to read the plebiscite returns without touching them and to file a protest against any irregularity in the plebiscite returns submitted and to obtain from the board of canvassers a resolution thereon in writing.

Canvass by the Commission on Elections: Proclamation of the Result. — Within one week after the holding of the plebiscite, the Commission on Elections shall commence a public canvass of the votes as certified by the city, municipal and municipal district boards of canvassers and, thereafter, proclaim the result thereof.

In case there are certificates of canvass which are missing and the votes therein will not affect the result of the plebiscite, the Commission on Elections may terminate the canvass and proclaim the result of the plebiscite on the basis of the available certificates of canvass.

Plebiscite Supplies and Services. — The Commission on Elections may procure any supplies, materials or services needed for the holding of the plebiscite either by negotiation or through sealed quotations if it finds the requirements of public bidding impracticable to observe.

Rules and Regulations. — The Commission on Elections shall promulgate the rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this Decree.

Appropriation. — The sum of fifteen million (₱15,000,000) pesos is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Decree: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of expenses incurred for the purpose before the promulgation of this Decree, and shall be available for expenditure after June 30, 1973, until all expenses of said plebiscite shall have been paid.

Effectivity. — This Decree shall become effective immediately upon its promulgation.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of December, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.

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 sarily implied in all particular modes of being as the idea of infinite space in all the geometrical figures by which space is limited. I was pleased with the Cartesian opinion, that the idea of God is distinguished from all other ideas by involving its reality; but I was not wholly satisfied. I began then to ask myself, what proof I had of the outward existence of any thing? Of this sheet of paper for instance, as a thing in itself, separate from the phænomenon or image in my perception. I saw, that in the nature of things such proof is impossible; and that of all modes of being, that are not objects of the senses, the existence is assumed by a logical necessity arising from the constitution of the mind itself, by the absence of all motive to doubt it, not from any absolute contradiction in the supposition of the contrary. Still the existence of a being, the ground of all existence, was not yet the existence of a moral creator, and governor. "In the position, that all reality is either contained in the necessary being as an attribute, or exists through him, as its ground, it remains undecided whether the properties of intelligence and will are to be referred to the Supreme Being in the former or only in the latter sense; as inherent attributes, or only as consequences that have existence in other things through him. Thus organization, and motion, are regarded as from God not in

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Wedgwood as a lone bachelor living in lodgings had a habit of reading his morning newspaper as he breakfasted; his practice was to prop it up against the coffee-pot after pouring out his first cup. But on this occasion he had no sooner seen the words in big capitals than he laid down his knife and fork and seizing the paper in both hands leaned back in his chair and read the advertisement through from its first line to its last.

There was that in the advertisement which not only absorbed the detective's attention, but tickled his sense of humour. Its very phraseology suggested that it had been drafted hurriedly, probably as its originator stood at the counter of a newspaper office. But there was plenty of it. It set out that Avice Mortover, whose personal appearance was fully described, had left her lodgings in Mornington Crescent at such and such an hour on such and such a night in company with a woman who was also described, down to the heavy veil and long fur coat, and that she had not been heard of since.


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 It set forth, too, that Miss Mortover's disappearance was possibly connected with the recent affair in Handel Street, W. C. And it wound up by offering a reward of one thousand pounds—spot cash—to anyone who would produce the said Avice Mortover or give information that would lead to her restoration to her friends—application to be made direct, in person, to James Nottidge, Nottidge House, Belsize Park, N.W. 3.

Wedgwood read the advertisement twice—hurriedly, the first time; carefully, the second, and then, careless of the fact that his bacon was going cold and his fried eggs congealing, he made for the door, called his landlady's boy, and thrusting a shilling into his hand bade him go forth and buy all the principal morning papers. There was a newsagent's close at hand and within five minutes the detective was in possession of several prints and rapidly turning them over. And—as he had more than half expected—he found the advertisement prominently displayed in every one of them.

"Cost him a tidy penny, that!" muttered Wedgwood. "Well—there's nothing like doing a job thoroughly when you once start! I could see he was an eccentric chap, too! Fairly gone on that girl, evidently. There's one thing certain—that advertisement will sharpen the


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 eyes and ears of a vast lot of people, and Mr. James Nottidge'll be answering his bell all day—usually for nothing!"

Then, reflecting that he himself had better be doing something, he finished his breakfast, prepared for going out, and having rolled his umbrella and fitted his hat and gloves to a nicety, set forth for Mornington Crescent, reflecting on matters as he walked along. By that time Wedgwood had arrived at a fixed opinion as regards the matter he had in hand. John Wraypoole had been murdered because he had discovered a secret about Avice Mortover: the person or persons responsible for his murder were also responsible for Avice Mortover's sudden disappearance. To track down one was to track down the other. And in his view of things the woman who had taken Avice Mortover away from her lodgings, doubtless on some plausible pretext, was Mrs. Patello. Mrs. Patello—in league, he felt sure, with her sister Mrs. Clagne. And Mrs. Patello had got to be found.

He had no expectation of news at Mornington Crescent, and he got none. Miss Mortover had not returned, nor had the landlady heard from her. But she had seen Nottidge's advertisement in the paper and was full of amazement at the sum offered as a reward.


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 "Ought to produce some information, certainly," agreed Wedgwood. "Now, did Miss Mortover ever mention this young man to you, ma'am!"

"Well, she did just say there was a young gentleman," admitted the landlady. "That was the very evening she disappeared. She was shy about it—but she did make mention of it. A well-to-do young man, evidently!"

"Quite so, ma'am—able to put down a thousand of the best, anyway!" said the detective. "And a man who can produce a thousand pounds at will has a few more thousand pounds in reserve—you may be sure of that!"

"Well, I'm sure I hope she'll be found, and safe," sighed the landlady. "Such a nice thing for a girl that's earned her own living, to get a rich husband!"

Wedgwood refrained from saying that if all went well, Miss Mortover would prove a highly desirable prize in the marriage market; he bade the landlady communicate with him if she heard anything of her missing lodger and went off to Hunter Street. And as he was about to enter the police-station he came face to face with Thomas Wraypoole.

Thomas Wraypoole looked angry—or, perhaps, puzzled to the verge of annoyance. He had a folded newspaper in his left hand, and


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THE SYNTHESIS OF HINDUISM 167 or the courtyard in a modern temple like Dakkhineswar.

So much for the main cave. The plan of the entablature is carried out, however, in the architecture, and there are wings—consisting of cells built round courtyards enclosing tanks—to right and left of the great central chamber. And here the carved animals and other ornaments, that support short flights of stairs and terraces, are all eloquent of a great art period and a conception of life at once splendid and refined.

Elephanta, then, perpetuates the synthesis of Hinduism. How royal was the heart that could portray no part of his people's faith—even though it held his personal conviction and worship—without the whole ! Not Saivite alone, but Saivite, Vaishnavite, and the still remembered worshipper of Brahma, go to make up the Aryan congregation. All alike, it is felt, must be represented. Nay, when we recall the older Kenheri, we feel that not the churches alone but also the monastic orders outside all churches; not society only but also the supersocial organisation, denying rank and all that distinguishes society, had a place here. In the architectural remains within a certain area of the Bay of Bombay, we have a perfect microcosm of the Indian thought and belief of a particular period. The question that presses for determination is, what was that period.

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 as he caught sight of the detective he pointed to it with his right.

"Here, what's the meaning of this?" he demanded, without preface. "I came straight here to ask you that! You've seen it, of course. This advertisement about a missing girl—Avice Mortover. What's it mean? How's she connected with my brother's death?"

"Come inside, Mr. Wraypoole," answered Wedgwood. "I'd be glad of a few minutes talk with you. Now," he continued when he had conducted the oil and colour merchant to a private room, "if you'll look again at the advertisement, you'll see that it doesn't say that this girl was connected with your brother's death—murder, I prefer to phrase it. What it does say is that her disappearance—which we think is really abduction—is connected with his murder: believed to be connected, that is."

"Don't see much difference!" said Thomas. "Who is she? What's the connection?"

Wedgwood did not immediately answer that question. He was wondering how far he could take Thomas Wraypoole into his confidence. Suddenly he remembered that Avice Mortover's disappearance and Nottidge's advertisement would remove a good deal of the curtain he had kept drawn.

"Mr. Wraypoole!" he said. "I believe you


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 and your brother originally came to London from the Netherwell neighbourhood, in Derbyshire?"

"Well, what if we did?" demanded Thomas.

"You were young, I know, but not so young that you weren't familiar with the names of people and places thereabouts. Don't you remember a family near Netherwell of the name of Mortover?"

"Can't say that I do, now. No!"

"Your brother did!"

"Likely! John was that sort. Always crazed about the history of the old place—antiquary, d'you see. Pedigrees—genealogical stuff—old parchments—deeds—that sort of rubbish. He used to read about it at the British Museum and the Rolls office. Didn't interest me a bit, that—I'm a business man. He was interested in our birthplace, and in its people. I wasn't! But what if there is a family down there called Mortover—same name as this girl? What's that got to do with what happened to John!"

Wedgwood suddenly made up his mind.

"I'll tell you, Mr. Wraypoole!" he said, looking steadily at his visitor. "Your brother John was murdered because he'd come into possession of a secret relating to the Mortover family! He was—silenced!"


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168 FOOTFALLS OF INDIAN HISTORY Mahabharata, similarly, we are constantly startled by the mention of Brahma. He is there called the grandsire, the creator, and sometimes the ordainer, with face turned on every side. This last attribute is perhaps derived from some old mysticism, which gave the Romans Janus—from which our own January—and found expression amongst the Hindus in the four-headed image, and the weapon with four heads called Brahma's head, as mentioned in the Ramayana. While constantly referred to in the Mahabharata, however, Brahma is nowhere there invested with new functions. He does not appear as a growing concept of the divine. He plays rather the part of one receding from actuality who must constantly be held in memory. In the Puranic stories of Krishna, similarly, no one goes to Brahma with any prayer or austerity, as they do to Shiva. He is no dynamic factor in the life of men. Yet He is the Creator, beyond all argument. He is chief and eldest of Hindu post-vedic deities. His position needs no proving. It is accepted by all. Nor does Brahma in the Puranas require to be convinced that Vishnu is the equal of himself : Krishna, as the presentment of Vishnu, is new to him, but Vishnu himself He takes for granted. At the same time, while indisputably supreme, Brahma is by no means a spiritual reality. That place, as other stories and the whole of the Mahabharata show, is filled by Shiva, with whom are associated all those philosophical ideas nowadays described as Vedantic. And yet, if the story of


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toxins as potential CW agents. Much of the basic research on plant hallucinogens concerns the effects of indole-based alkaloids on the higher nervous system. In addition to their studies on LSD-25 (lysergic acid diethylamide), new hallucinogenic drugs, such as piperidylglycolates, are being synthesized and tested possibly as candidate CW agents.

To maintain their strong CW defensive posture, the Czechoslovaks have very active programs for devising new detection, decontamination, and protection equipment. More sensitive and mechanically reliable automatic alarms based on enzyme reaction are being developed for detection of nerve agents. Work on detection of aerosols, which might be CW-oriented, includes scintillation particle counters tuned to identify defined chemical compositions, chemically treated membrane filters for spot testing of collected aerosols, and counters to measure reflected light impulses from particles. Prophylactic and therapeutic research for more effective treatment of nerve agent poisoning appears to have a high priority.

At least five institutes are engaged in CW-related research and development: the Chemical Warfare Research and Development Center 070, which is collocated with Antonin Zapatocky Military Academy in Brno; Military Research and Postgraduate Institute, Brno; Charles University, Hradec Kralove; Zemianske Kostolany Chemical Plant, Zemianske Kostolany; the Military Veterinary Research Institute, Prague; and the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague.

The Chemical Warfare Research and Development Center 070 appears to be the major facility responsible for the development of personal protection, decontamination, and detection equipment. Activities at this facility include development of mobile field laboratories, CW agent detector kits and alarms, and thin-layer chromatographic and fluorometric techniques for the systematic detection of nerve agents, mustard, and lewisite. The center directs field testing of protective equipment at Vyskov, east of Brno. The Chemical Troops Directorate, which is subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense, directs the center.

The primary CW research mission of the Military Medical Research and Postgraduate Institute is to test the effectiveness of agents and to develop prophylactic and therapeutic compounds to protect against agent poisoning. Research activities include studies on inhibition of brain acetylcholinesterase by sarin of reactivation kinetics of sarin—inhibited acetylcholinesterase by bisquaternary pyridinemonoaldoximes. The effects of LSD 25 on the central cholinergic functions as well as synthesis and testing of new psychotropic compounds are also under study.

The facility at Zemianske Kostolany reportedly has laboratories capable of producing up to 100-kg pilot plant lots of CW agents. The facility reportedly conducts research on antidotes for CW agents, develops chemical agent detector kits, and also maintains an animal farm for experimentation. Experimental data are forwarded to the Antonin Zapotocky Military Academy.

3. Nuclear energy (C)

Czechoslovakia has established a nuclear energy program restricted to research and the development of the economic applications of nuclear energy, particularly the production of electric power. The program has been hampered by the limitations of funds and the lack of some basic materials and equipment, but it has progressed with assistance from the Soviet Union. Under terms of a bilateral agreement for nuclear research concluded in 1955 with the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia acquired a research reactor, a cyclotron, and aid in the construction of a nuclear power station. The country also has profited from membership in the IAEA and the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dubna, U.S.S.R.

The Czechoslovak Atomic Energy Commission was established in July 1955 to direct and coordinate the development of nuclear energy. The actual program is carried out by a number of scientific, governmental, and industrial organizations, chief of which is the Institute of Nuclear Research (INR) at Rez. The principal facility of the INR is a Soviet-supplied tank-type research reactor, which went into operation in September 1957. The reactor is fueled with 10% enriched uranium fuel, and its design power level of 2 megawatts (MW was raised to 4-5 MW in 1964). The INR also is equipped with a Soviet-supplied 120-centimeter diameter cyclotron able to provide 8-megaelectronvolt (MeV) proton and a Czechoslovak-designed 5-MeV Van de Graaff accelerator. These facilities are used for research, training, and the production of radioisotopes. The research programs at INR include reactor design, basic nuclear physics, radiochemistry, and the chemistry and metallurgy of reactor materials and components. In 1966, construction was begun at Rez on a heavy water-moderated, natural uranium-fueled, zero-power reactor, named TR-O, which was to be used to test fuel element designs for power reactors of this type. The TR-O was expected to go into operation in 1970, but its completion was delayed until July 1972.

The Nuclear Energy Development Section of the V.I. Lenin Works (Skoda Works) at Plzen designed and fabricated a zero-power experimental reactor, which

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 Thomas Wraypoole stared—but Wedgwood found it impossible to decide whether he was surprised or incredulous.

"D'ye mean to say that's a fact, Wedgwood?" he asked. "Fact?"

"Well, it's an opinion which I feel sure will become a fact," replied the detective. "I've no doubt of it."

"What was the secret?" asked Thomas.

"That this young woman who's now missing is the rightful owner of the Mortover property near Netherwell," answered Wedgwood. "That'll all come out, now! And, Mr. Wraypoole, it's my belief that when you were asked by your brother to meet him on the evening of his murder, you were to be told about his discovery of that secret. He may have had some reason for telling you."

"Well—I never did meet him," said Thomas.

"So you have always said," remarked Wedgwood, dryly. "And of course we've taken your word. But if you want plain truth, Mr. Wraypoole, I've wondered myself, if you've ever told me all you really know about that evening! Now I'll tell you something I'd like to know. I'll accept your word that you never met your brother, to speak to! But did you see him that evening?"


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 It must be remembered that a modern Utopia must differ from the Utopias of any preceding age in being world-wide; it is not, therefore, to be the development of any special race or type of culture, as Plato's developed an Athenian-Spartan blend, or More, Tudor England. The modern Utopia is to be, before all things, synthetic. Politically and socially, as linguistically, we must suppose it a synthesis; politically it will be a synthesis of once widely different forms of government; socially and morally, a synthesis of a great variety of domestic traditions and ethical habits. Into the modern Utopia there must have entered the mental tendencies and origins that give our own world the polygamy of the Zulus and of Utah, the polyandry of Tibet, the latitudes of experiment permitted in the United States, and the divorceless wedlock of Comte. The tendency of all synthetic processes in matters of law and custom is to reduce and simplify the compulsory canon, to admit alternatives and freedoms; what were laws before become traditions of feeling and style, and in no matter will this be more apparent than in questions affecting the relations of the sexes.


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THE SYNTHESIS OF HINDUISM 169 Krishna had been written in the twentieth century, Brahma would have had no place in it at all. Partially forgotten as He was then, He is wholly forgotten now. From this evidence then, we may infer that the personality of Brahma was the first, and that of Shiva the next, to be developed as concepts of Supreme Deity.

Thus there was a period in Hinduism when the name of Brahma the Creator was held in reverence—having dominated the theology of a preceding age—and used in conjunction with those of Shiva and Vishnu to make the specification of deity complete. Hinduism at that time deliberately preached God as the Three-in-One, the Unity-in-Trinity. This theological idea we find expressed in its purity in the Caves of Elephanta, and perhaps slightly later in the Ramayana of Valmiki.

The poet Kalidasa also, writing both the Kumara-savibhava and the Raghuvamsa, would appear to have been under the inspiration of this Hindu idea of the Trinity. He shared the desire of the power that carved Elephanta to represent the synthesis of Hinduism by doing something to concretise both its popular aspects.

But the form under which Vishnu appears in Elephanta is purely theological. It is Lakshmi-Narayana, the idea that to this day is more familiar to the West and South of India than to Bengal. This theological concept — or divine incarnation, as it is called — was fully formulated before the Ramayana was written, and is referred to there


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 Thomas Wraypoole started. Then he glanced at the door.

"All safe!" said Wedgwood. "Come now—between ourselves?"

"Well, between ourselves, then!" replied Thomas. "Yes—I did see him! Only see him, mind you."

"Where?"

"That I won't say. It was on my way to meet him."

"Why didn't you speak to him?"

"Because he was in conversation with another man."

"Did you know the other man?"

"I did—well enough!"

"Who was he—who is he?"

"No! You'll not get that out of me, Wedgwood, for anything!"

"But why not? Between ourselves!"

"No, not between ourselves. I'm not going to drag innocent people into trouble. If I told you who this man was you'd be after him at once, and I know, of course, that it would be just a bit of talk that he'd be having with John."

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 seen him since—several times. He and John had just met casually in the street. No!"

"And instead of stopping to speak, although you knew John wanted to see you, you passed these two"

"I didn't pass them. I chanced to see them on the other side of the street. I went on—to where I expected to meet John."

"And John never came?"

"He never came!"

"Then, for anything you know, he may have gone somewhere with this man!"

Thomas remained silent: it seemed to Wedgwood that some new train of thought had been aroused in him. He suddenly rose from his chair.

"I'm not going to tell you who that man was, Wedgwood, if that's what you're after," he said with decision. "At any rate, not now! But I'll promise you this! If I think it's necessary—and I'll admit that your last remark's a pertinent one—that John may have gone somewhere with him—I will! But that's all—at present."

He went away without another word, and before Wedgwood had time to reflect on what had passed between them, Mr. James Nottidge was announced. A question was off his lips before he had well crossed the threshold.


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I70 FOOTFALLS OF INDIAN HISTORY much oftener than in the Mahabharata; though that also was meant to prove the identity of a certain hero with Vishnu. Sita-Rama are from the very beginning argued as the bodying-forth of Lakshmi-Narayana in human form. Krishna in the later epic seems to be consciously a second attempt to paint the mercy of God in incarnation.

The ideas that succeed in India are always firm-based on the national past. Thus that idealism of the motherland which is to-day the growing force intellectually can go back for foundation to the story of Uma, wedded in austerity to the great God. Similarly it would be very interesting to see worked out by some Indian scholar the root- sources in Vedic literature of these conceptions of Shiva and Vishnu. One can hardly resist the conclusion that each was elaborated independently in its own region.

We have to think of the Mother Church as the expression of a people who, between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, were intensely modern and alive. Indian civilisation has educated its children from the beginning to the supreme function of realising ideas. And ideas grew and succeeded each other, taking on new forms with amazing rapidity, in the period immediately before and after the Christian era. The impression that the chief formative impulse here was the life and character of Buddha is extremely difficult to resist. On one side the stern monastic; on the other, the very projection into humanity of the Infinite Compassion—the


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THE SYNTHESIS OF HINDUISM 171 Blessed One was both of these. His character was the world's proof that God was at once Preserver of His children, and Destroyer of their Ignorance, even while He was but a name for the Supreme itself. Hence in men's dreams of Shiva we see their effort thenceforth to realise the one, while Narayana is their personification of the other of these attributes.

Just as Buddha may have been the radiant centre whence diverged the popular religions, so Benares may have been the spot where the idea of Shiva was first conceived and elaborated. Many causes may have contributed to this. The Deer Park seven miles away must have been a monastic university before the time of Buddha. Its undisputed pre-eminence is shown by the fact that He made his way to it immediately on attaining enlightenment, because it was there that his theory, or discovery, must be published to the world. From this we can see that the monk, although a little apart, must always have been an impressive figure in Benares, which was itself, at this particular period, mainly a commercial and industrial centre, associated with a great Brahmanic wealth of Vedic memory.

After the time of Buddha, while his name still reverberated throughout the length and breadth of the land, Benares would doubtless become a place of pilgrimage, rendered doubly sacred by his memory and by its Vedic altar. The growing opinion that the Deity could take no delight in


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 "Heard anything?" he asked anxiously.

"Nothing definite," replied Wedgwood. "You're more likely to hear something first after that advertisement. You lost no time!"

"My way! They called me Nippy Nottidge at school. Stuck to me, too, that has. If there's a thing to be done, do it quick! That's my motto!"

"Must have cost you a lot of money that advertisement, Mr. Nottidge!"

"Nothing to what this business has cost me in anxiety—fact! I say—can't you suggest something? What are you doing—the police?"

"You haven't left me much to do in the publicity line," said Wedgwood. "Do you realize that that advertisement of yours will be re-printed as news in every paper in England? Something'll come of it. But if you'll sit down I can tell you what I did last night after seeing you."

Nottidge listened avidly to the detective's account of the Patello household.

"You think Mrs. Patello's the woman, then?" he asked eagerly, when Wedgwood had made an end. "Why not be after her?"

Wedgwood smiled at his visitor's obvious eagerness.

"How would you do that, now, Mr. Not-


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 CHAPTER THE SEVENTH

A FEW UTOPIAN IMPRESSIONS

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now we are in a better position to describe the houses and ways of the Utopian townships about the Lake of Lucerne, and to glance a little more nearly at the people who pass. You figure us as curiously settled down in Utopia, as working for a low wage at wood-carving until the authorities at the central registry in Paris can solve the perplexing problem we have set them. We stay in an inn looking out upon the lake, and go to and fro for our five hours' work a day with a curious effect of having been born Utopians. The rest of our time is our own.

Our inn is one of those inns and lodging-houses which have a minimum tariff, inns which are partly regulated and, in the default of private enterprise, maintained and controlled by the World State throughout the entire world. It is one of several such establishments in Lucerne. It possesses many hundreds of practically self-cleaning bedrooms, equipped very much after the fashion of the rooms we occupied in the similar but much smaller inn at Hospenthal, differing only a little in the decoration. There is the same dressing-room recess with its bath, the same graceful proportion in the succinct simplicity of its furniture. This particular inn is a quadrangle after the fashion of an Oxford college; it is


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 tidge?" he asked. "If you go a-hunting, you know, you've got to locate your fox first!"

"You mean you've got to take your hounds where a fox is likely to be found!" answered Nottidge. "Go where Mrs. Patello's likely to be found—or heard of!"

"If you can suggest where," said Wedgwood still smiling. "Eh?"

"I reckon old man Patello knows that!" declared Nottidge. "Try that!"

"And I reckon he doesn't!" retorted Wedgwood. "Mrs. P. no doubt told him that she was going to see a sick friend, as he said to me. But I regard the sick friend as a myth!"

Nottidge rubbed the tip of his nose with the knob of his walking stick during a moment's reflection.

"Well, I'll bet there's some news of Mrs. Patello to be got at her own house, anyway!" he said at last. "And if not there what about another place—this Mortover Grange you tell me of. For, if I know anything—I mean if I can put two and two together—I reckon this Janet Clagne woman knows something about her sister's movements! In the plot—that's about it!"

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 Before he could say more a police-constable put his head into the room and looked enquiringly from Wedgwood to his visitor.

"Telephone call," he said. "Somebody's asking if a Mr. Nottidge is here? If so it's his housekeeper wants to speak to him."


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 perhaps forty feet high, and with about five stories of bedrooms above its lower apartments; the windows of the rooms look either outward or inward to the quadrangle, and the doors give upon artificially lit passages with staircases passing up and down. These passages are carpeted with a sort of cork carpet, but are otherwise bare. The lower story is occupied by the equivalent of a London club, kitchens and other offices, dining-room, writing-room, smoking and assembly rooms, a barber's shop, and a library. A colonnade with seats runs about the quadrangle, and in the middle is a grass-plot. In the centre of this a bronze figure, a sleeping child, reposes above a little basin and fountain, in which water lilies are growing. The place has been designed by an architect happily free from the hampering traditions of Greek temple building, and of Roman and Italian palaces; it is simple, unaffected, gracious. The material is some artificial stone with the dull surface and something of the tint of yellow ivory; the colour is a little irregular, and a partial confession of girders and pillars breaks this front of tender colour with lines and mouldings of greenish grey that blend with the tones of the leaden gutters and rain pipes from the light red roof. At one point only does any explicit effort towards artistic effect appear, and that is in the great arched gateway opposite my window. Two or three abundant yellow roses climb over the face of the building, and when I look out of my window in the early morning—for the usual Utopian working day commences within an hour of sunrise—I see Pilatus above this outlook, rosy in the morning sky.


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1. On 24 June 2023, thousands of Wagner fighters occupied Rostov-on-Don, the Russian military headquarters responsible for directing Russia’s renewed illegal invasion of Ukraine. Their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, then threatened to march on Moscow. The group came within 200km of the capital before Prigozhin and his fighters abandoned the mutiny, leaving significant questions over the future of the Wagner Group in Ukraine and abroad.

2. We began this inquiry in March 2022 to cast a light on what was (then) a shadowy and under-examined organisation. We aimed to expose the Wagner Group's modus operandi, its impact on UK interests and values, and how this impact was being addressed. This report draws on evidence gathered since that time to examine the nature and extent of the Wagner Group’s network and its expanding activities since 2014; the response of the UK Government; and how this response may affect what comes next. We used written and oral evidence; commissioned open-source research; reports from former members of the Wagner Network and drew on the many years’ investigative work of journalists and non-governmental organisations. Due to the secrecy and uncertainty that surround the Group’s deployments, we make clear our level of confidence when commenting on its countries of operation. We thank all those who contributed to our inquiry, sometimes at risk to themselves.

3. The remainder of this report largely refers to the ‘Wagner Network’, rather than the Wagner Group. This describes more accurately what Prigozhin has been allowed to build: a sprawling, decentralised network of individuals and commercial entities, which is active in several countries and for which the ‘membership’ is not always clear. Exploiting this web of entities is central to the network’s modus operandi. This network has benefited the personal financial interests of Prigozhin and the interests of Russian political elites. It


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 I known what made it purple I should certainly have gone no farther. Then clouds, the morning mist as I supposed, lifted themselves up rose-lighted, showing the sun's disc as purple as one of the jars in a chemist's window, and having permitted this glimpse of their king, came down again as a dense mist, the wind chopped round, and the mist began to freeze hard. Soon Birdie and myself were a mass of acicular crystals; it was a true easterly fog. I galloped on, hoping to get through it, unable to see a yard before me; but it thickened, and I was obliged to subside into a jog-trot. As I rode on, about four miles from the cabin, a human figure, looking gigantic like the spectre of the Brocken, with long hair white as snow, appeared close to me, and at the same moment there was the flash of a pistol close to my ear, and I recognised "Mountain Jim" frozen from head to foot, looking a century old with his snowy hair. It was "ugly" altogether certainly, a "desperado's" grim jest, and it was best to accept it as such, though I had just cause for displeasure. He stormed and scolded, dragged me off the pony—for my hands and feet were numb with cold—took the bridle, and went off at a rapid stride, so that I had to run to keep them in sight in the darkness, for we were off the road in a thicket of scrub, looking like white branch-coral, I knew not where. Then we came suddenly on his cabin, and


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 dear old "Ring," white like all else; and the "ruffian" insisted on my going in, and he made a good fire, and heated some coffee, raging all the time. He said everything against my going forward, except that it was dangerous; all he said came true, and here I am safe! Your letters, however, outweighed everything but danger, and I decided on going on, when he said, "I've seen many foolish people, but never one so foolish as you—you haven't a grain of sense. Why, I, an old mountaineer, wouldn't go down to the plains to-day." I told him he could not, though he would like it very much, for that he had turned his horses loose; on which he laughed heartily, and more heartily still at the stories I told him of young Lyman, so that I have still a doubt how much of the dark moods I have lately seen was assumed.

He took me back to the track; and the interview which began with a pistol-shot, ended quite pleasantly. It was an eerie ride, one not to be forgotten, though there was no danger. I could not recognise any localities. Every tree was silvered, and the fir-tree tufts of needles looked like white chrysanthemums. The snow lay a foot deep in the gulches, with its hard, smooth surface marked by the feet of innumerable birds and beasts. Ice bridges had formed across all the streams, and I crossed them without knowing when. Gulches looked fathomless abysses,


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 with clouds boiling up out of them, and shaggy mountain summits, half seen for a moment through the eddies, as quickly vanished. Everything looked vast and indefinite. Then a huge creation, like one of Doré's phantom illustrations, with much breathing of wings, came sailing towards me in a temporary opening in the mist. As with a strange rustle it passed close over my head, I saw, for the first time, the great mountain eagle, carrying a good-sized beast in his talons. It was a noble vision. Then there were ten miles of metamorphosed gulches—silent, awful—many ice bridges, then a frozen drizzle, and then the wind changed from east to north-east. Birdie was covered with exquisite crystals, and her long mane and the long beard which covers her throat were pure white. I saw that I must give up crossing the mountains to this place by an unknown trail; and I struck the old trail to the St. Vrain, which I had never travelled before, but which I knew to be more legible than the new one. The fog grew darker and thicker, the day colder and windier, the drifts deeper, but Birdie, whose four cunning feet had carried me 600 miles, and who in all difficulties proves her value, never flinched or made a false step, or gave me reason to be sorry that I had come on. I got down to the St. Vrain Canyon in good time, and stopped at a house thirteen miles from Longmount to get oats. I was white from head to foot,


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 together with Appollonius Pergæus in lib. 5. of his Revolutions, Chap. 35.

You see, Gentlemen, with what facility and simplicity the annual motion, were it appertaining to the Earth, is accommodated to render a reason of the apparent exorbitances, that are observed in the motions of the five Planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury, taking them all away, and reducing them to equal and regular motions. And of this admirable effect, Nicholas Copernicus, hath been the first that hath made the reason plain unto us. But of another effect, no lesse admirable than this, and that with a knot, perhaps more difficult to unknit, bindeth the wit of man, to admit this annual conversion, and to leave it to our Terrestrial Globe; a new and unthought of conjecture ariseth from the Sun it self, which sheweth that it is unwilling to be singular in shifting, of this attestation of so eminent a conclusion, rather as a testimony beyond all exception, it hath desired to be heard apart. Hearken then to this great and new wonder.

The first discoverer and observer of the Solar spots, as also of all the other Cœlestial novelties, was our Academick Lincæus; and he discovered them anno 1610. being at that time Reader of the Mathematicks, in the Colledge of Padua, and there, and in Venice, he discoursed thereof with several persons, of which some are yet living: And the year following, he shewed them in Rome to many great personages, as he relates in the first of his Letters to Marcus Velserus, * Sheriffe of Augusta. He was the first that against the opinions of the too timorous and too jealous assertors of the Heavens inalterability, affirmed those spots to be matters, that in short times were produced and dissolved: for as to place, they were contiguous to the body of the Sun, and revolved about the same; or else being carried about by the said Solar body, which revolveth in it selfe about its own Centre, in the space almost of a moneth, do finish their course in that time; which motion he judged at first to have been made by the Sun about an Axis erected upon the plane of the Ecliptick; in regard that the arches described by the said spots upon the Discus of the Sun appear unto our eye right lines, and parallels to the plane of the Ecliptick: which therefore come to be altered, in part, with some accidental, wandring, and irregular motions, to which they are subject, and whereby tumultuarily, and without any order they successively change situations amongst themselves, one while crouding close together, another while dissevering, and some dividing themselves into many and very much changing figures, which, for the most part, are very unusual. And albeit those so inconstant mutations did somewhat alter the primary pe-


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 and my clothes were frozen stiff. The women gave me the usual invitation, "Put your feet in the oven;" and I got my clothes thawed and dried, and a delicious meal consisting of a basin of cream and bread. They said it would be worse on the plains, for it was an easterly storm; but as I was so used to riding, I could get on, so we started at 2.30. Not far off I met Edwards going up at last to Estes Park, and soon after the snowstorm began in earnest—or rather I entered the storm, which had been going on there for several hours. By that time I had reached the prairie, only eight miles from Longmount, and pushed on. It was simply fearful. It was twilight from the thick snow, and I faced a furious east wind loaded with fine, hard-frozen crystals, which literally made my face bleed. I could only see a very short distance anywhere; the drifts were often two feet deep, and only now and then, through the blinding whirl, I caught a glimpse of snow through which withered sunflowers did not protrude, and then I knew that I was on the track. But reaching a wild place, I lost it, and still cantered on, trusting to the pony's sagacity. It failed for once, for she took me on a lake and we fell through the ice into the water, 100 yards from land, and had a hard fight back again. It grew worse and worse. I had wrapped up my face, but the sharp, hard snow beat on my eyes—the only exposed part—bringing tears into them, which


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 froze and closed up my eyelids at once. You cannot imagine what that was. I had to take off one glove to pick one eye open, for as to the other, the storm beat so savagely against it that I left it frozen, and drew over it the double piece of flannel which protected my face. I could hardly keep the other open by picking the ice from it constantly with my numb fingers, in doing which I got the back of my hand slightly frostbitten. It was truly awful at the time. I often thought, "Suppose I am going south instead of east? Suppose Birdie should fail? Suppose it should grow quite dark?" I was mountaineer enough to shake these fears off and keep up my spirits, but I knew how many had perished on the prairie in similar storms. I calculated that if I did not reach Longmount in half an hour it would be quite dark, and that I should be so frozen or paralysed with cold that I should fall off. Not a quarter of an hour after I had wondered how long I could hold on I saw, to my surprise, close to me, half smothered in snow, the scattered houses and blessed lights of Longmount, and welcome, indeed, its wide, dreary, lifeless, soundless road looked! When I reached the hotel I was so benumbed that I could not get off, and the worthy host lifted me off and carried me in. Not expecting any travellers, they had no fire except in the barroom, so they took me to the stove in their own room, gave me a hot drink and plenty of blankets,


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 and in half an hour I was all right and ready for a ferocious meal. "If there's a traveller on the prairie to-night, God help him!" the host had said to his wife just before I came in.

I found Evans there, storm-stayed, and that—to his great credit at the time—my money matters were all right. After the sound and refreshing sleep which one gets in this splendid climate, I was ready for an early start, but, warned by yesterday's experience, waited till twelve to be sure of the weather. The air was intensely clear, and the mercury seventeen degrees below zero! The snow sparkled and snapped under one's feet. It was gloriously beautiful! In this climate, if you only go out for a short time you do not feel cold even without a hat, or any additional wrappings. I bought a cardigan for myself, however, and some thick socks, got some stout snowshoes for Birdie's hind feet, had a pleasant talk with some English friends, did some commissions for the men in the Park, and hung about waiting for a freight train to break the track, but eventually, inspirited by the good news from you, left Longmount alone, and for the last time. I little thought that miserable, broiling day on which I arrived at it with Dr. and Mrs. Hughes, of the glories of which it was the gate, and of the "good time" I should have. Now I am at home in it; every one in it and along the St. Vrain Canyon addresses me in a friendly way by


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 name; and the newspapers, with their intolerable personality, have made me and my riding exploits so notorious, that travellers speak courteously to me when they meet me on the prairie, doubtless wishing to see what sort of monster I am! I have met nothing but civility, both of manner and speech, except that distraught pistol-shot. It looked icily beautiful, the snow so pure and the sky such a bright, sharp blue! The snow was so deep and level that after a few miles I left the track, and, steering for Storm Peak, rode sixteen miles over the pathless prairie without seeing man, bird, or beast—a solitude awful even in the bright sunshine. The cold, always great, became piteous. I increased the frostbite of yesterday by exposing my hand in mending the stirrup; and when the sun sank in indescribable beauty behind the mountains, and colour rioted in the sky, I got off and walked the last four miles, and stole in here in the coloured twilight without any one seeing me.

The life of which I wrote before is scarcely less severe, though lightened by a hope of change, and this weather brings out some special severities. The stove has to be in the living-room, the children cannot go out, and, good and delightful as they are, it is hard for them to be shut up all day with four adults. It is more of a trouble than you would think for a lady in precarious health that, before each meal,


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 riodick course of the said spots, yet did they not alter the opinion of our friend, so as to make him believe, that they were any essential and fixed cause of those deviations, but he continued to hold, that all the apparent alterations derived themselves from those accidental mutations: in like manner, just as it would happen to one that should from far distant Regions observe the motion of our Clouds; which would be discovered to move with a most swift, great, and constant motion, carried round by the diurnal Vertigo of the Earth (if haply that motion belong to the same) in twenty four hours, by circles parallel to the Equinoctial, but yet altered, in part, by the accidental motions caused by the winds, which drive them, at all adventures, towards different quarters of the World. While this was in agitation, it came to pass that Velserus sent him two Letters, written by a certain person, under the feigned name of * Apelles, upon the subject of these Spots, requesting him, with importunity, to declare his thoughts freely upon those Letters, and withall to let him know what his opinion was touching the essence of those spots; which his request he satisfied in 3 Letters, shewing first of all how vain the conjectures of Apelles were; & discovering, secondly, his own opinions; withal foretelling to him, that Apelles would undoubtedly be better advised in time, and turn to his opinion, as it afterwards came to pass. And because that our Academian (as it was also the judgment of many others that were intelligent in Natures secrets) thought he had in those three Letters investigated and demonstrated, if not all that could be desired, or required by humane curiosity, at least all that could be attained by humane reason in such a matter, he, for some time (being busied in other studies) intermitted his continual observations, and onely in complacency to some friend, joyned with him, in making now and then an abrupt observation: till that he, and after some years, we, being then at my * Country-seat, met with one of the solitary Solar spots very big, and thick, invited withal by a clear and constant serenity of the Heavens, he, at my request, made observations of the whole progresse of the said spot, carefully marking upon a sheet of paper the places that it was in every day at the time of the Suns coming into the Meridian; and we having found that its course was not in a right line, but somewhat incurvated, we came to resolve, at last, to make other observations from time to time; to which undertaking we were strongly induced by a conceit, that accidentally came into the minde of my Guest, which he imparted to me in these or the like words.

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 eggs, butter, milk, preserves, and pickles have to be unfrozen. Unless they are kept on the stove, there is no part of the room in which they do not freeze. It is uninteresting down here in the foothills. I long for the rushing winds, the piled-up peaks, the great pines, the wild night noises, the poetry and the prose of the free, jolly life of my unrivalled eyrie. I can hardly realise that the river which lies ice-bound outside this house is the same which flashes through Estes Park, and which I saw snow-born on Long's Peak.

2em Yesterday morning the mercury had disappeared, so it was 20° below zero at least. I lay awake from cold all night, but such is the wonderful effect of the climate, that when I got up at half-past five to waken the household for my early start, I felt quite refreshed. We breakfasted on buffalo beef, and I left at eight to ride forty-five miles before night, Dr. Hughes and a gentleman who was staying there convoying me the first fifteen miles. I did like that ride, racing with the other riders, careering through the intoxicating air in that indescribable sunshine, the powdery snow spurned from the horses' feet like dust! I was soon warm. We stopped at a trapper's ranch to feed, and the old trapper amused me by seeming to think Estes Park almost inaccessible in winter. The distance was


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 greater than I had been told, and he said that I could not get there before eleven at night, and not at all if there was much drift. I wanted the gentlemen to go on with me as far as the Devil's Gate, but they could not because their horses were tired; and when the trapper heard that, he exclaimed, indignantly, "What! that woman going into the mountains alone? She'll lose the track or be froze to death!" But when I told him I had ridden the trail in the storm of Tuesday, and had ridden over six hundred miles alone in the mountains, he treated me with great respect as a fellow-mountaineer, and gave me some matches, saying, "You'll have to camp out anyhow; you'd better make a fire than be froze to death," The idea of my spending the night in the forest alone, by a fire, struck me as most grotesque.

We did not start again till one, and the two gentlemen rode the first two miles with me. On that track, the Little Thompson, there a full stream, has to be crossed eighteen times, and they had been hauling wood across it, breaking it, and it had broken and refrozen several times, making thick and thin places indeed, there were crossings which even I thought bad, where the ice let us through, and it was hard for the horses to struggle upon it again; and one of the gentlemen who, though a most accomplished man, was not a horseman, was once or twice


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 tick, but is inclined upon the same, as its crooked course, but even now observed, makes me believe, we shall be able to make such conjectures of the states of the Sun and Earth, as neither so solid or so rational have been hitherto deduced from any other accident whatsoever. I being awakened at so great a promise, importun'd him to make a free discovery of his conceit unto me. And he continued his discourse to this purpose. If the Earths motion were along the Ecliptique about the Sun; and the Sun were constituted in the centre of the said Ecliptick, and therein revolved in its self, not about the Axis of the said Ecliptique (which would be the Axis of the Earths annual motion) but upon one inclined, it must needs follow, that strange changes will represent themselves to us in the apparent motions of the Solar spots, although the said Axis of the Sun should be supposed to persist perpetually and immutably in the same inclination, and in one and the same direction towards the self-same point of the Universe. Therefore the Terrestrial Globe in the annual motion moving round it, it will first follow, that to us, carried about by the same, the courses of the spots shall sometimes seem to be made in right lines, but this only twice a year, and at all other times shall appear to be made by arches insensibly incurvated. Secondly, the curvity of those arches for one half of the year, will shew inclined the contrary way to what they will appear in the other half; that is, for six moneths the convexity of the arches shall be towards the upper part of the Solar Discus, and for the other six moneths towards the inferiour. Thirdly, the spots beginning to appear, and (if I may so speak) to rise to our eye from the left side of the Solar Discus, and going to hide themselves and to set in the right side, the Oriental termes, that is, of their first appearings for six moneths, shall be lower than the opposite termes of their occultations; and for other six moneths it shall happen contrarily, to wit, that the said spots rising from more elevated points, and from them descending, they shall, in their courses, go and hide themselves in lower points; and onely for two dayes in all the year shall those termes of risings and settings be equilibrated: after which freely beginning by small degrees the inclination of the courses of the spots, and day by day growing bigger, in three moneths, it shall arrive at its greatest obliquity, and from thence beginning to diminish, in such another time it shall reduce it self to the other Æquilibrium. It shall happen, for a fourth wonder, that the course of the greatest obliquity shall be the same with the course made by the right line, and in the day of the Libration the arch of the course shall seem more than ever incurvated. Again, in the other times, according as the pendency shall successively diminish, and make it ap-


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Rh “Damn it to hell, he ought to- It ’ll be a stinkin1 shame if he don’t.” Would Raleigh’s line be able to stop Slade’s end runs? Slade I Slade! He was the team, the hope and adoration of the whole college.

Three days before the “big game” the alumni be¬ gan to pour into town, most of them fairly recent graduates, but many of them gray-haired men who boasted that they had n’t missed a Sanford-Raleigh game in thirty years. Hundreds of alumni arrived, filling the two hotels to capacity and overrunning the fraternity houses, the students doubling up or seeking hospitality from a friend in a dormitory. In the little room in the rear of the Sanford Pool and Hilliard Parlors there was almost continual ex¬ citement. Jim McCarty, the proprietor, a big, jovial, red-faced man whom all the students called Mac, was the official stake-holder for the college. Bets for any amount could be placed with him. Money from Raleigh flowed into his pudgy hands, and he placed it at the odds offered with eager San¬ ford takers. By the day of the game his safe held thousands of dollars, most of it wagered at five to three, Raleigh offering odds. There was hardly an alumnus who did not prove his loyalty to San¬ ford by visiting Mac’s back room and putting down a few greenbacks, at least. Some were more loyal than others; the most loyal placed a thousand dol¬ lars—at five to two.


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Rh it. Everybody seemed to take it for granted that he would be bid. Why did n’t they take it equally for granted that Carl would be bid as well? He thought perhaps it was because he was an athlete and Carl was n’t; but the truth was, of course, that the upper-classmen perceived the nouveau riche quality in Carl quite as clearly as he did himself. He knew that his money and the fact that he had gone to a fashionable prep school would bring him bids, but would they be from the right fraternities? That was the all-important question.

Those last three days of rushing were nerveracking. At night the invited freshmen—and that meant about two thirds of the class—were at the fraternity houses until eleven; between classes and during every free hour they were accosted by ear¬ nest fraternity men, each presenting the superior merits of his fraternity. The fraternity men were wearier than the freshmen. They sat up until the small hours every morning discussing the freshmen they had entertained the night before.

Hugh was in a daze. Over and over he heard the same words with only slight variations. A fra¬ ternity man would slap a fat book with an excited hand and exclaim: “This is ‘Baird’s Manual,’ the final authority on fraternities, and it’s got ab¬ solutely all the dope. You can see where we stand. Sixty chapters! You don’t join just this one, y’ understand; you join all of ’em. You’re


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234 he was the perfect gambler, never excited, always in absolute control of himself.

Hugh marveled at the control as the evening wore on. He was excited, and, try as he would, he could not keep his excitement from showing. Luck, however, was with him; by ten o’clock he was sev¬ enty-five dollars ahead, and most of it was Allen’s money.

Hugh passed by three hands in succession, unwill¬ ing to take any chances. He had decided to “play close,” never betting unless he held something worth putting his money on.

Allen dealt the fourth hand. “Ante up,” he said quietly. The five other men followed his lead in tossing chips into the center of the table. He looked at his hand. “Two blue ones if you want to stay in.” Winsor and two of the men threw down their cards, but Hugh and a lad named Mandel each shoved two blue chips into the pot.

Hugh had three queens and an ace. “One card,” he said to Allen. Allen tossed him the card, and Hugh’s heart leaped when he saw that it was an ace

“Two cards, Ted,” Mandel requested, nervously crushing his cigarette in an ash-tray. He picked up the cards one at a time, lifting each slowly by one corner, and peeking at it as if he were afraid that a sudden full view would blast him to eternity. His face did not change expression as he added th$ cards to the three that he held in his hand.


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266 *perately to cry but bit her lip and held back tears.

“I think I know what you mean, Cynthia,” F said softly. “I don’t know much about love anc attraction and that sort of thing, but I know tl was happier kissing you than I’ve ever been ir life. I—I wish that last night hadn’t happe I hate myself.”

“You need n’t. It was more my fault than y( I’m a pretty bad egg, I guess; and the booze you holding me was too much. I hate myself, I’ve spoiled the nicest thing that ever happene me.” She looked up at him, her eyes bright tears. “I did love you, Hugh. I loved yo much as I could love any one.”

Hugh put his arms around her and drew ht him. Then he bent his head and kissed her ge There was no passion in his embrace, but there infinite tenderness. He felt spiritually and ] ically weak, as if all his emotional resources been quite spent. ^

“I think that I love you more than I ever before,” he whispered.

If he had shown any passion, if there had any warmth in his kiss, Cynthia might have bel him, but she was aware only of his gentleness, pushed him back and drew out of his arms. “No,” she said sharply; “you don’t love


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Rh brothers and their girls, she and Hugh departed for a tour of the campus. The lawns were so green that the grass seemed to be bursting with color; the elms waved tiny new leaves in a faint breeze; the walls of the buildings were speckled with green patches of ivy. Cynthia was properly awed by the chapel and enthusiastic over the other buildings. She assured Hugh that Sanford men looked awfully smooth in their knickers and white flannels; in fact, she said the whole college seemed jake to her.

They wandered past the lake and into the woods as if by common consent. Once they were out of sight of passers-by, Hugh paused and turned to Cyn¬ thia. Without a word she stepped into his arms and lifted her face to his. Hugh’s heart seemed to stop; he was so hungry for that kiss, he had waited so long for it.

When he finally took his lips from hers, Cynthia whispered softly, “You’re such a good egg, Hugh boney, such a damn good egg.”

Hugh could say nothing; he just held her close, tiis mind swimming dizzily, his whole being atingle. For a long time he held her, kissing her, now ten¬ derly, now almost brutally, lost in a thrill of passion. Finally she whispered faintly: “No more, Hugh. Not now, dear.”

Hugh released her reluctantly. “I love you so damned hard, Cynthia,” he said huskily. ‘ I I
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Rh conform! You dress both your bodies and your minds to some set model. Just at present you are making your hair foul with some sort of perfumed axle-grease; nine tenths of you part it in the middle. It makes no difference whether the style is becoming to you or not; you slick it down and part it in the middle. Last year nobody did it; the chances are that next year nobody will do it, but anybody who does n’t do it right now is in danger of being called wet.”

Hugh had a moment of satisfaction. He did not pomade his hair, and he parted it on the side as he had when he came to college. True, he had tried the new fashion, but after scanning himself care¬ fully in the mirror, he decided that he looked like a “blond wop”—and washed his hair. He was guilty, however, of the next crime mentioned.

“The same thing is true of clothes,” Henley was saying. “Last year every one wore four-button suits and very severe trousers. This year every one is wearing Norfolk jackets and bell-bottomed trousers, absurd things that flop around the shoes, and some of them all but trail on the ground. Now, any one who can’t afford the latest creation or who declines to wear it is promptly called wet.

“And, as I said before, you insist on the same standardization of your minds. Just now it is not au fait to like poetry; a man who does is exceedingly
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272 “yes, I see what you mean; I think I do, anyway. But what has it to do with me?”

“Well, I know most of the fellows pet and all that sort of thing, and they don’t think anything about it. But you ’re different; you love beautiful things as much as I do. You told me yourself that Jimmie Henley said last year that you were gifted. You can write and sing and run, but I ’ve just realized that you are n’t proud of those things at all; you just take them for granted. And you’re ashamed that you write poetry. Some of your poems are good, but you have n’t sent any of them to the poetry magazine. You don’t want anybody to know that you write poetry. You ’re trying to make yourself like fellows that are inferior-to you.”

Norry was piteously in earnest. His hero had crumbled into clay before his eyes, and he was try¬ ing to patch him together again preparatory to boosting him back upon his pedestal.

“Oh, cripes, Norry,” Hugh said a little im¬ patiently, “you exaggerate all my virtues; you always have. I’m not half the fellow you think I am. I do love beautiful things, but I don’t be¬ lieve my poetry is any good.” He paused a moment and then confessed mournfully: “I’ll admit, though, that I have been going downhill. I’m going to do better from now on. You watch ^ »» me.

They talked for hours, Norry embarrassing


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Rh forth across the platform, shouting, and finally throwing his hands above his head and springing high into the air at the concluding “San—FORD!”

The Glee Club sang to mad applause; a tenor twanged a ukulele and moaned various blues; a pop¬ ular professor told stories, some of them funny, most of them slightly off color; a former cheer¬ leader told of the triumphs of former Sanford teams—and the atmosphere grew denser and denser, bluer and bluer, as the smoke wreathed up¬ ward. The thousand boys leaned intently forward, occasionally jumping to their feet to shout and cheer, and then sinking back into their chairs, tense and excited. As each speaker mounted the plat¬ form they shouted: “Off with your coat! Off with your coat!” And the speakers, even the professor, had to shed their coats before they were permitted to say a word.

When the team entered, bedlam broke loose. Every student stood on his chair, waved his arms, slapped his neighbor on the back or hugged him wildly, threw his hat in the air, if he had one—and, so great was his training, keeping an eye on the cheer-leader, who was on the platform going through a series of indescribable contortions. Sud¬ denly he straightened up, held his hands above his head again, and shouted through his megaphone: “A regular cheer for the team—a regular cheer for the team. Make it big—BIG! Ready—!”


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Presidential Decree No. 86 (Marcos)

, the Revised Barrio Charter, Republic Act No. 3590, provides for the Barrio Assembly consisting of all persons who are residents of the barrio for at least six months, eighteen years of age or over, citizens of the Republic of the Philippines and who are duly registered in the list of Barrio Assembly members kept by the barrio secretary;

, it is necessary to broaden the base of citizen participation in the democratic process and to afford ample opportunities for the citizenry to express their views on important national issues;

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, do hereby decree as part of the law of the land the following:

1. There is hereby created in each Barrio in municipalities and in each district in chartered cities a Citizens Assembly; provided that in the case of the City of Manila and other cities where there are no barrios, there shall be a Citizens Assembly for every ward.

2. The Citizens Assembly shall consist of all persons who are residents of the barrio, district or ward for at least six months, fifteen years of age or over, citizens of the Philippines and who are registered in the list of Citizens Assembly members kept by the barrio, district or ward secretary.

3. The Citizens Assembly shall meet at the call of the barrio captain, the district or ward leader or at the request of at least one-tenth of the members to consider matters of local or national concern.

4. For the purpose of conducting business and taking any official action in the Citizens Assembly, at least one-fifth of the members should be present to constitute a quorum. The proceedings shall be recorded by the barrio, district or ward secretary or in his absence, any member designated as acting secretary by the barrio captain or district or ward leader.

5. This decree shall take effect immediately.

in the City of Manila, this 31st day of December, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Two.

Rh

title: Presidential Decree No. 86 (Marcos)


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 in the ludicrous position of hesitating on the bank with an anxious face, not daring to spur his horse upon the ice. After they left me I had eight more crossings, and then a ride of six miles, before I reached the old trail; but though there were several drifts up to the saddle, and no one had broken a track, Birdie showed such pluck, that instead of spending the night by a camp fire, or not getting in till midnight, I reached Mr. Nugent's cabin, four miles from Estes Park, only an hour after dark, very cold, and with the pony so tired that she could hardly put one foot before another. Indeed, I walked the last three miles. I saw light through the chinks, but, hearing an earnest conversation within, was just about to withdraw, when "Ring" barked, and on his master coming to the door I found that the solitary man was talking to his dog. He was looking out for me, and had some coffee ready, and a large fire, which were very pleasant; and I was very glad to get the latest news from the Park. He said that Evans told him that it would be most difficult for any one of them to take me down to the plains, but that he would go, which is a great relief. According to the Scotch proverb, "Better a finger off than aye wagging," and as I cannot live here (for you would not like the life or climate), the sooner I leave the better.

The solitary ride to Evans's was very eerie. It


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 (which comes very near that proportion of time Dr. Harvey observed the Egs in his Deer), that nothing can be objected of force enough to shake an Opinion confirmed by so many and so exact observations. He has prevented the Objection which Deimerbroech and Mr. Verney use against him, That the Tube is too narrow at each end to transmit Globules of that bigness: Alleaging that the Hole by which it has its exit out of the Ovarium is as narrow; that no Force is used to open it, but it expands it self, as the Os Uteri before the Birth: As Nuts and Peach-Stones &c. give way to the germinating Plant, which is less able to make its way then the Eg. But besides, (which these Authors urge,) tho the extremity of the Tube be membranous in most Quadrupeds, in which its possible a seminal Liquor might be transmitted to the Womb; in Women its divided, like a Knot of Ribbon, and is no more adapted to receive any thing but an Eg, then the Fingers expanded to receive and contain a Fluid. The Eg has not been able sometimes to get into the Womb; Riolanus speaks of a human Fœtus seen in one of the Tubes: and Dr. Harvey assures you he has seen it himself. In the dissection of a Bitch at Oxford, the Embryos either could not get into it, the Membranous Expansion being hindred from ascending to and clipping the Ovania, by the fulness of the Womb; or from the same cause were forc't back again. She had been with Whelp: By a blow she received the Fœtus died within her. She discharged by the Pudendum a great quantity of putrid Flesh and Matter. She was afterward able to run in the Pack. After the second Impregnation she was observed to have a very ill shap't belly. When dead the owner a Person of Quality sent her to Oxford. The Horns of the Womb were so stuft up with the Bones and firmer Muscles and thicker Skin of the Fœtus's, (some of them lay in the usual posture, the Sceletons of which were entire, the interstices of the bones only filled up with Skin and Flesh), that no Seminal matter, or Aura seminalis could possibly find a


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 was very dark, and the noises were unintelligible. Young Lyman rushed out to take my horse, and the light and warmth within were delightful, but there was a stiffness about the new régime. Evans, though steeped in difficulties, was as hearty and generous as ever; but Edwards, who had assumed the management, is prudent, if not parsimonious, thinks we wasted the supplies recklessly, and the limitations as to milk, etc., are painfully apparent. A young ex-Guardsman has come up with Evans, of whom the sanguine creature forms great expectations, to be disappointed doubtless. In the afternoon of yesterday a gentleman came who I thought was another stranger, strikingly handsome, well-dressed, and barely forty, with sixteen shining gold curls falling down his collar; he walked in, and it was only after a careful second look that I recognised in our visitor the redoubtable "desperado." Evans courteously pressed him to stay and dine with us, and not only did he show the most singular conversational dexterity in talking with the stranger, who was a very well-informed man, and had seen a great deal of the world, but, though he lives and eats like a savage, his manners and way of eating were as refined as possible. I notice that Evans is never quite himself or perfectly comfortable when he is there; and on the part of the other there is a sort of stiffly-assumed cordiality, significant, I fear, of lurking hatred on


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 both sides. I was in the kitchen after dinner making rolled puddings, young Lyman was eating up the relics as usual, "Jim" was singing one of Moore's melodies, the others being in the living-room, when Mr. Kavan and Mr. Buchan came from "up the creek" to wish me good-bye. They said it was not half so much like home now, and recalled the "good time we had had for three weeks. Lyman having lost the cow, we have no milk. No one makes bread; they dry the venison into chips, and getting the meals at all seems a work of toil and difficulty, instead of the pleasure it used to be to us. Evans, since tea, has told me all his troubles and worries. He is a kind, generous, whole-hearted, unsuspicious man, a worse enemy to himself, I believe, than to any other; but I feel sadly that the future of a man who has not stronger principles than he has must be at the best very insecure. I. L. B.


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 is an End so base, so mean, so absurd, that no Christian Man can plead it in Excuse; and yet, at the same time, 'tis impossible to find any other Excuse for it: In short, it is a meer shameless use of a Woman, to abate the heat of his Spirits, and cool his Blood; 'tis making a Necessary-House of his Wife, and nothing more or less; and that indeed is a sordid Thing, so much as in the suggestion of it; 'tis adding Scandal to the Crime, covering it without a Cover; there's no Excuse can be made for it, no tolerable Name be given to it (that I can find at least) but this of Matrimonial Whoredom, according to my Title.

us then think of reforming this scandalous Practice; let us look at it in a due Perspective, in a clear open Light. If any one thing can with Modesty be said in Defence of it, let us hear it; if not, if it is to be only confess'd as a Crime, let it be forsaken as a Crime. What cannot be defended, ought to be reformed: What every one is ashamed to speak for, none should be ashamed to forsake.

I could offer some Examples upon this Subject, but they are of such a course kind, that it is too foul to mention; there's no entring into the Particulars; it would offend the Ears of all those that have the least Pretence to Modesty. Some of our worthy Neighbours will indeed, on this very Score, pass unreproved, and the filthy Circumstances not be animadverted upon, because they cannot be mentioned; but it is so, it cannot be helped, so they must escape.

I have the Honour to converse with some Gentlemen so abstenious, that they are able to clear themselves of this Charge; and 'tis to


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General Order No. 20 (Marcos)

GENERAL ORDER NO. 20

, pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 73 dated December 1, 1972, a plebiscite has been called on January 15, 1973 at which the proposed Constitution of the Philippines shall be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection;

, Presidential Decree No. 86, dated December 31, 1972, created Citizens Assemblies so as to afford ample opportunities for the citizenry to express their views on important national issues;

, one of the questions presented to the Citizens Assemblies is: "Do you like the plebiscite on the proposed Constitution to be held later?"

, it is necessary to hold in abeyance the plebiscite until the people's preference has been ascertained;

, Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, do hereby order that the plebiscite scheduled to be held on January 15, 1973, be postponed until further notice.

I further order that the provisions of Section 3 of Presidential Decree No. 73 insofar as they allow free public discussion of the proposed Constitution, as well as my order of December 17, 1972, temporarily suspending the effects of Proclamation No. 1081 for the purposes of free and open debate on the proposed Constitution, be suspended in the meantime.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.

Rh

By the President:

(Sgd.) Executive Secretary

title: General Order No. 20 (Marcos)


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The last evening came. I did not wish to realise it, as I looked at the snow-peaks glistening in the moonlight. No woman will be seen in the Park till next May. Young Lyman talked in a "hifalutin" style, but with some truth in it, of the influence of a woman's presence, how "low, mean, vulgar talk" had died out on my return, how they had "all pulled themselves up," and how Mr. Kavan and Mr. Buchan had said they would like always to be as quiet and gentlemanly as when a lady was with them. "By May," he said, "we shall be little better than brutes, in our manners at least." I have seen a great deal of the roughest class of men both on sea and land during the last two years, and the more important I think the "mission" of every quiet, refined, self-respecting woman—the more mistaken I think those who would


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 their Honour that I mention it, though, but in general, Sir W G, and his Lady, have treated one another always with such Justice, and with such Reserve in this Case, that as soon as ever the Lady has found her self with Child, she always lodged in Apartments by her self, till she was delivered, and the like at other Seasons; that no Occasion might offer, where there was so much Love, to have any excess.

has this modest Custom been so much a Stranger to our Ancestors, as it seems to have been to us; a Truth not at all to our Advantage; this was, without doubt, the Original of that good Custom among Persons of Quality, and of any tolerable Fortunes, to have separate Apartments, the Gentleman's Lodgings and the Lady's being separate, so that, when Decency required, they went from one another for a while, till proper Times returned, and made Lodging together reasonable again.

is true, middling Families have not this Convenience, and cannot keep separate Lodgings furnished for one another; it may be said of such indeed, that they have the greater exercise for their Virtue, because they are obliged always to lodge together. But how great soever the Exercise is, and how difficult soever to be put in Practice, still, as it is a Virtue, it ought to be strictly observed; nor, in my Opinion, can any Man be said to live a Life of Virtue that neglects it.

rest is all Prostitution; nay, 'tis worse, 'tis unnatural, 'tis a kind of lesser Sodomy; for, I doubt not, but Sodom's Sins, the Foundation of which was laid, as I have observed, in high feeding, emphatically express'd in the sacred


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 forfeit it by noisy self-assertion, masculinity, or fastness. In all this wild West the influence of woman is second only in its benefits to the influence of religion, and where the last unhappily does not exist the first continually exerts its restraining power. The last morning came. I cleaned up my room and sat at the window watching the red and gold of one of the most glorious of winter sunrises, and the slow lighting-up of one peak after another. I have written that this scenery is not lovable, but I love it.

I left on Birdie at 11 o'clock, Evans riding with me as far as Mr. Nugent's. He was telling me so many things, that at the top of the hill I forgot to turn round and take a last look at my colossal, resplendent, lonely, sunlit den, but it was needless, for I carry it away with me. I should not have been able to leave if Mr. Nugent had not offered his services. His chivalry to women is so well known, that Evans said I could be safer and better cared for with no one. He added, "His heart is good and kind, as kind a heart as ever beat. He's a great enemy of his own, but he's been living pretty quietly for the last four years." At the door of his den I took leave of Birdie, who had been my faithful companion for more than 700 miles of travelling, and of Evans, who had been uniformly kind to me and just in all his dealings, even to paying to me at that moment the very last dollar he owed me. May God bless him and his!