ellauri159.html on line 1353: After experiencing the anesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood concluded that the gas had opened his mind to new ideas and continued experimenting with it. In 1874, he published a 37-page pamphlet, The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy.
ellauri226.html on line 68: In November 1965, early in the sessions for the Beach Boys' 11th studio LP Pet Sounds, Wilson began experimenting with the idea of recording an album focused on humor and laughter. He was intent on making Pet Sounds a complete departure from previous Beach Boys releases and did not wish to work with his usual lyricist, Mike Love, who was such a sourpuss.
ellauri497.html on line 587: J.B.S. Haldane actually did make fun of the poem! Your original premise was correct. In his 1946 essay "Auld Hornie, F.R.S." (a scathing review of C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy), Haldane weaponized Browning’s poem to mock Lewis’s vision of intellectual life. Haldane "didn't think shit" of the ideal presented in A Grammarian's Funeral for three core reasons: It Celebrates Total Social Uselessness: In the poem, a dead scholar is praised by his students for ignoring the real world to spend his entire life analyzing minor ancient Greek particles (Hoti, Oun, and De). As a pragmatic, politically active scientist, Haldane found this celebration of obsessive, socially useless pedantry absurd. Mocking C.S. Lewis's "Anti-Science" Academic Climax: In That Hideous Strength, Lewis has angels smash a sinister scientific institute, effectively wiping out the villainous academics. Haldane sarcastically cheered this climax by writing, "One Grammarian's Funeral less, in fact." He was mocking the traditionalist, backward-looking academic model that both Browning's poem and C.S. Lewis seemed to romanticize.Real-World Action vs. Ivory Tower Isolation: Haldane lived a life of extreme action—fighting in trenches, self-experimenting with dangerous gases, and applying science to solve human problems. He despised the poem’s core philosophical message that a man should decide "not to Live but Know." To Haldane, isolating oneself from life to master abstract minutiae wasn't noble; it was foolish and a waste of human intellect.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 211: An article Wylie wrote in 1951 in The Saturday Evening Post entitled "Anyone Can Raise Orchids" led to the popularization of this hobby—not just the rich, but gardeners of every economic level began experimenting with orchids.
xxx/ellauri165.html on line 338: Upon arrival in London on 8 November, the three of them took suites at Nerot's Hotel after a missed communication from Nelson to his wife about receiving the party at their home, Roundwood. Lady Nelson and Nelson's father arrived and they all dined at the hotel, with Fanny deeply unhappy to see Emma pregnant. The affair soon became public knowledge, and to the delight of the newspapers, Fanny did not accept the affair as placidly as Sir William. Emma was winning the media war at that point, and every fine lady was experimenting with her look. Nelson contributed to Fanny's misery by being cruel to her when not in Emma's company. Sir William was mercilessly lampooned in the press, but his sister observed that he doted on Emma and she was very attached to him.
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 162: In most Christian frameworks, God “didn’t straighten it out first” because Satan’s fall isn’t treated like a one-time human misstep that can be corrected by a simple reset; it’s treated as a decisive, ongoing refusal (a hardened rebellion), and the moral/spiritual order is allowed to follow from what a free created being chooses. Common answers to your “what was he testing?” point:     It wasn’t a test for Satan in order to earn redemption. The “testing” language is usually applied to humans’ moral responsibility (Eden as a probation/test of obedience and trust), not to God giving Satan another chance.     The Eden episode is usually framed as a revelation about what human beings would do with freedom, and it sets up the need for a rescue/atonement later.     Some traditions add that the “serpent” is the instrument, not the core agent—so the real test is about whether humans will trust God, not about God “experimenting” on whether Satan is redeemable. If you want the tightest version of the answer for your viewpoint: do you lean more toward free-will/real-choice explanations or toward sovereignty/purpose explanations (God allowing rebellion to accomplish a larger plan)?
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