"Present-day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Brotherhoods. Why the esoteric meanings have always been veiled. The great teachers and the uniformity of their instructions. Philosophy as taught by Vivekananda. The fundamental doctrine of Buddhism. Have the present-day Buddhists lost the key? Is religion necessary to Illumination? The ...
— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad
... I fly backwards, homewards—and always faster. Thus did I come unto you, ye present-day men, and into the land ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche
... wild marauding pack to seek shelter in alien surroundings. One can well conceive the possibility of the partnership beginning in the circumstance of some helpless whelps being brought home by the early hunters to be tended and reared by the women and children. The present-day savage of New Guinea and mid-Africa does not, as a rule, take the trouble to tame and train an adult wild animal for his own purposes, and primitive man was surely equally indifferent to the questionable advantage of harbouring a dangerous guest. But a litter of woolly ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton
... poems," resumed Halliday, "he is the most virile of the present-day poets. Kipling is virile, but he gives you the man in hot blood with the brute in him to the fore; but the strong masculinity of Henley is essentially intellectual. It is the mind that ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... "Who is casting you off? I tell you that I like the young man, and give you my blessing, or what is the present-day equivelent for it, and you look like a ...
— Bab: A Sub-Deb • Mary Roberts Rinehart
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