Already, by the end of 1771, the mood was beginning to change in London . Word was spreading about the Company’s inhumanity in Bengal: the number of dead and dying was simply too vast to hide. Horace Walpole’s letters reflected a growing awareness that behind the EIC’s vast profits there was something profoundly rotten at work in the Company’s Indian operations. ‘The groans of India have mounted to heaven,’ he wrote, ‘where the Heaven-Born General [Clive] will certainly be disavowed.’
He was wrong. Pride was all she had left. Pride would keep her strong. Pride would help her survive.
She was a MacDuff, from the ancient line of Mormaers of Fife—the highest of all Scottish noble families. She was the daughter and sister of an earl, and the disavowed wife of another.
An English king had no right to pass judgment on her.
Sayfa 11 - Prolouge|Bella
Reklam
Sartre, unusually, was alone, and the Koestlers were relieved that Simone de Beauvoir (whom they had nicknamed ‘Castor’) was not there. They shared a picnic supper together, along with a police bodyguard assigned to Koestler by the French Sureté following death threats from the Communists (which had culminated in the Communist daily L’Humanité publishing a map pinpointing Verte Rive, Koestler’s villa in Fontaine le Port, near Paris). Although their friendship had been increasingly strained in recent years, these ideological opponents still felt a mutual fondness for each other, and they were able to joke together as the train pulled out into the hot summer night. Sartre, along with Albert Capius, had publicly disavowed Koestler’s Congress, and refused to attend. But Koestler felt sorry for Sartre, who confessed that night on the train that his friendships were evaporating under the heat of his and de Beauvoir’s politics.
The New Press - 2000
Niza-ı İlm ve DinFelsefe
Evrim fikrinin doğuş koşullarına tanıklık eden Draper, adı geçen çalışmada Müslümanlar söz konusu olduğunda, ilk ağızdan evrimi onlara atfetmiş görünmektedir: "Theological authorities were therefore constrained to look with disfavor on any attempt to carry back the origin of the earth to an epoch indefinitely remote, and on the Mohammedan theory of the evolution of man from lower forms, or his gradual devolopment to his present condition in the long lapse of time" Teolojik otoriteler, yeryüzünün başlangıcını böyle ucu bucağı belli olmayan uzak bir döneme götüren herhangi bir teoriye ve tabi insanın şu anda bulunduğu hale uzun bir zaman sürecinde daha alt bir türden evrilerek geldiğini ilan eden Muhammedi evrim teorisine de pek de hoş gözle bakmazlardı.
