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This was the second chapter in the immaculate life story of the Lotus-Bom Master, telling how he prac­ticed in the chamel grounds and was blessed by the dakinis.

They answered. “If that is so. first give us your weapons.” Then he handed over the bow and iron arrows. The monks said, “The time has not come for us to teach you. Go to Red Rock Garuda where our master Prabhahasti lives.”

He arrived before Prabhahasti. from whom he received ordina­tion and was named Shakya Senge. The master taught him the three great sections of Yoga Tantra: Sundlx Jnatuya, Yegvbatyava, and Tat- tvasamgraka.11 Although he understood these scriptures the moment they were taught, he studied them eighteen times in the pretense of purifying obscurations. At the same time, even without having practiced, he had visions of the thirty-seven divinities of Yoga Tantra.

Shakya Senge reflected. “I will practice the teaching of Mahayoga and accomplish both the vidyadhara level of longevity and the supreme vidyadhara level of mahamudra.” Thinking thus, he went to the great master Manjushrimitra who was living at Mount Malaya.

He requested the teaching, but the master said, “The time is not yet right for me to teach you. You must go to the charnel ground named Sandal Grove where the nun Kungamo lives. She is a wisdom dakini endowed with great blessings and skilled in conferring the outer, inner, and secret empowerments. Go there and request the empowerments.” Thus he was instructed.

Shakya Senge then went to chamel ground Sandal Grove where he met the maid Young Damsel, who was fetching water. He presented the letter requesting the bestowal of the outer, inner, and secret empowerments. Having gotten no response, he asked, “Have you forgotten my message?” Still, she did not utter a word, so Master Padma applied his power of concentration, nailing down her buckets and crossbar.

The ‘and’ in each of these has the simple role of conjoining two predi­cates to form a single predicable that can be one of the two arguments. The second ‘who’ in (28A) is grammatically optional, logically super­fluous. (I am much indebted for this view of the definite-description construction to conversations with Arthur Prior.)

In this same area of definite descriptions, there is a type of example that has caused sad perplexity to some, because of the apparent failure of substitutivity of identicals:

The only man who danced with his wife at the party was drunk, and his wife was Mary

Ergo: The only man who danced with Mary was drunk

(I have avoided the trivial complications that would arise if we replaced ‘his wife’ in (34) at its second occurrence by ’she’; ’she* would then, I think, only be a pronoun of laziness going proxy for ‘his wife’.) If people proceed by picking out ‘referring expressions’ and asking after their reference, then they come up with the idea that ‘his wife* at both its occurrences in (34) refers to the wife of the only man who etc., namely Mary; and then the failure of substitutivity in 35) will puzzle – it is clear that there might not be one and only one man at the party who danced with Mary, and thus (35) could fail to be true when (34) is true.

A pupil with whom I discussed this case remarked that this would happen only if the definite description in (35) was vacuous – so that some might wish to call (35) a case of reference failure not of outright falsehood. I do not think much comfort is to be got this way. If we simply change the examples by having ‘The youngest man..instead of ‘The only man.. .* in (34) and (35), then we might very well have two definite descriptions picking out two different men, and then (34) could be true and (35) simply false.

The suggestion has been made that the context ‘The only man who danced with… at the party’ is referentially opaque in Quine’s sense. This just labels the trouble and does not resolve it; and in any event there is no dear case for assimilating this example to Quine’s examples, involving as they do modality or indirect speech or the like.

In 1846, the furs were cached some sixty miles west of Fort Kearny with the fur traders proceeding eastward on foot to ob­tain supplies (Bryant, 1848; Cooke, 1857; Sage, 1958).

The fifth instance documenting disruption of water transporta­tion bv drought in the first half of the nineteenth century was re­ported by the naturalist Thomas Nuttall, during his explorations in eastern and central Oklahoma in the spring, summer, and fall of 1819. Near Fort Towson in southeastern Oklahoma, he noted on June 6th, “All the lesser brooks and neighboring springs were now

Moore Hydrotogkral Drought ai a Settlement Inhibiting Factor

already dried up” (Nuttall, 1905, 280) No measurable rain was en­countered from that date until he returned to Fort Smith on Novem­ber 4. Concerning the Arkansas River he wrote, “no boats drawing more than 10 or 12 inches of water could possibly navigate it from the Dardanelles to the Verdigris” (Nuttall, 1905, 280).

In comparison with the extreme hydrological droughts that pre­vailed from 1857 through 1877, those of 1853 and 1855 were no more than severe. Dry springs and perennial streams were reported across all of Oklahoma in 1853, and levels in the Canadian River were very low (Foreman, 1941). In late August of 1855, William Chandlcss noted concerning the Platte River at Fort Kearny that “a few shallow streams of water hardly make their way through sand and shingle (i.e., gravel]” (Chandlcss, 1857, 63). Neither travelers nor their transportation animals suffered undue hardships, including those who traveled considerable distances between river valleys.

As previously suggested, the period 1857-1865 appears to have been the most drought-afflictcd of the nineteenth ccntury. Extreme hydrological droughts occurred during six of the nine years. Both the Cimarron River near the 100th meridian in 1857 and the North Fork of the Red River in southwest Oklahoma in 1859 had water only in standing pools (Bandel, 1932; Estcp, 1960). The maximum water depth in the Platte, ninety miles west of Fort Kearny in late April,

CHAPTER III THE PLAINS INDIANS

As the Spanish horse spread northward over the Llano Estacado and over­flowed across the mountains from the plains of the Cayusc, the Dakota and other tribes found a new means of conquest over the herds, and entered on a career so facile that they increased and multiplied despite strife and imported disease. — W. J. McGee

Saukees, be cautious; you live in the woods…. As long as you have the wood to conceal your warriors, you may continue to disturb the women and children of Missouri; but when hunger drives you from those woods, your bodies will be exposed to balls, to arrows, and to spears. You will only have time to discharge your guns, before, on horseback, their spears will spill your blood. … As you have seen the whirlwind break and scatter the trees of your woods, so will your warriors bend before them on horse­back.—-Indian Agent B. 0′Fau.on»

The whites have had the power given them by the Great Spirit to read and write, and convey infor.nation in this way. He gave us the power to talk with our hands and arms, and send information with the mirror, blanket, and pony far away, and when we meet with Indians who have a different spoken language from ours, we can talk to them in signs.

Iron Hawk or the Sioux

WE HAVE surveyed the environmental background of the Great Plains history, and have found it remarkable for its numerous contrasts to the humid timber region wherein American history had its beginnings and its early develop­ment. The Indians form the connecting link between the natural environment and the civilization that within the last century has been superimposed upon it. This chapter is therefore devoted to the Plains Indians.

pathetically personal and artificial to bystanders. Which is as much as to say that the purely theoretic criterion of truth can leave us in the lurch as easily as any other criterion, and that the absolutists, for all their preten­sions, arc ‘in the same boat’ concrctcly with those whom they attack.

I am well aware that this paper has been rambling in the extreme. But the whole subject is inductive, and sharp logic is hardly yet in order. My great trammel has been the non-existence of anv definitely stated alternative on my opponents’ part. It may conduce to clearness if I re­capitulate, in closing, what I conceive the main points of humanism to be. They arc these: -

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to re­ality in order to be true.

By ‘reality’ humanism means nothing more than the other conceptual or perceptual experiences with which a given present experience may find itself in point of fact mixed up.’7

By ‘conforming,’ humanism means taking account-of in such a way as to gain anv intellectually and practically satisfactory result.

To ‘take account-of and to be ’satisfactory’ are terms that ad­mit of no definition, so many are the ways in which these requirements can practically be worked out.

Vaguely and in general, wc take account of a reality by pre­serving it in as unmodified a form as possible. But, to be then satisfactory, it must not contradict other realities outside of it which claim also to be preserved. That we must preserve all the cxpcricncc wc can and minimize contradiction in what we preserve, is about all that can be said in advance.

The truth which the conforming experience embodies may be a positive addition to the previous reality, and later judg­ments may have to conform to it. Yet, virtually at least, it may have been true previously. Pragmatically, virtual and actual truth mean the same thing: the possibility of only one answer, when once the question is raised.

Their chylopoetic, as well as the thoracic, viscera usually births under the old regime were seldom ventilated, healthy iu their appearance; but spots, and sometimes and usually damp. In long voyages, and in desperate effusions, were discoverable on the mesentery, stomach, attempts, the mind was in despair; in moderate weather &c. which were not mortified sloughs, but of a firm, the exertion was inconsiderable, and from the thought- resisting nature. The mesenteric glands are some- less seaman’s improvidence, the clothing was insuffi- times enlarged; different viscera are obstructed; and, cient, and the diet that only of the ship. The few aids in one instance, an nicer wa^ iound in the heart.     which his wages might procure were sacrificed to his

Scurvy is not peculiar to seamen or navigators. There luxuries, viz. ardent spirits, which were equally inju- are instances of its occurring in besieged towns; in rious. If we look at the disease, when it occurs in low damp situations, where the food has been deficient other situations, we shall find the same concurring in quantity, or of a low quality. la one recorded in- causes; and when we examine the best prophylactic systems, we shall perceive that they are designed to ob­viate the effects which result from them.

The first effect must be debility and a deficiency of perspiration. We accordingly find first a languor and a dry skin. Diminished powers of digestion follow, and the result is a defective assimilation, or a depraved state of the fluids. The original source of the disease is therefore depressed energy of mind and body; the consequence is diminished irritability and a diminished power of all the functions, particularly those of the di­gestive and assimilatory organs.

We saw, in our examination of the nerves, that there were no exclusive branches destined for sensation, ex­cept when depending on organisation, as In the tye and ear. It is difficult therefore to explain, why sometimes the motion, sometimes the sensation only, is affected. It has been supposed that a greater degree of active power in the nerves is required for the former than the latter office; and it seems that sensation is most com­monly destroyed in the V.ghVer forms of the disease. The two defects are however so often m different de­grees, without any striking connection between either and the violence of the palsy, that we oftei solution with doubt and hesitation. On dissection, we find some­times an effus’.on of water)’ fluids.

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The early Grecian medicine was chiefly chirurgical; and though we hear of internal remedies, yet we have no clue to guide us respecting their nature, as the asser­tions of some authors nearer the period of their intro­duction are contradicted by others. Amidst the darkness of the fabulous ages we must acknowledge that the baths of Hecate, Circe, and Medea, seem to show some know­ledge of the powers of vegetables externally employed; and the tale of the poisoned shirt of Deianira equally im­plies the knowledge of deleterious plants, even if some of the circumstances in Medea’s story should be wholly fabulous.

1 he events of the Trojan war, which called for the interposition of art, were chiefly, if not exclusively, external injuries; and there is a very slight foundation for supposing, from the language of Homer, that in­ternal medicines were at any time exhibited. Nepenthe was almost the only instance, for the moly was an amulet. If the temples of Philostratus were at a sub­sequent period crowded with votaries, who sought his aid in consumptions, dropsies, intermittents, and dis­eases of the eyes, we must rather attribute the removal of the complaints to the arts of the priests or the cre­dulity of the votaries, than to the interference of the deceased hero, who is not represented as having pos­sessed any medicinal powers. JEaculapius^ who accom­panied the Argonauts, is not mentioned in the Iliad, so that he probably died in the interval; but his fame was preserved in his temples, where the artifices of the priests in choosing a healthy spot shaded with trees, and combining various species of amusement, contributed perhaps more to the patient’s recover)- than their me­dicines.

lphur one ounce, kali five “ounces ; mix the salt with the sulphur melted by a slow fire, by constant stirring, till they perfectly unite. Ph. Lond. J738. The dose is from five grains to a scruple. In tetters and other cutaneous affections this salt has been recom­mended. It has been employed dissolved in water, as a bath for the psora; and In cases of tinea capitis it has often been used by way of lotion, and has been strongly recommended to prevent the effects of mineral poisons. For the alkaline neutrals, see Chemia.

Ka’li a’gua is the kali which has deliquesced in a moist place; and it does not differ from the icali prae- pajratum.

Ka’li pu’rx a’qua. Take of kali four pounds; quick-lime six pounds; distilled water four gallons; add to the lime four quarts of water, and let them stand for an hour; then add the kali, and remaining part of the water; boil them for a quarter of an hour; let the liquor cool, and strain it: a pint of this fluid ought to weigh sixteen ounces. If the liquor raises an effer­vescence by the addition of any acid, more lime must be added. An earthen or glass vessel should be used, and the liquor strained through linen. Pharm. Lond. 17S8.

KA’MSTN. The hot winds blowing over the burn­ing sands of the desart, and reaching Egypt about the period of the equinox. The fatal effects of this wind are in part owing to its containing a considerable pro­portion of inflammable air, probably from the decom­posed water, and in part from its great heat and dry­ness. The effects of the Samiel of the Desart, a wind nearly resembling the kamsin, is described with great pathos and eloquence by Bruce. See Volney’s and JJruce’s Travels.

KANE’LLI. A name of two East-Indian evergreen trees, the flowers of which are used in diarrhoeas ; but they are not found in the systems of the botanists. See Itaii Historia.

KANNAGHO’RAKA. See Carcafuli linco-

tani.

KAOLIN. One of the ingredients of the Chinese procelain, probably a growan clay, or a decomposed granite.

KA’PA MA’TA. See Acajaiba.

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