# Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy

Author: Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6921

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Temporal+Power%3A+A+Study+in+Supremacy+Corelli&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The statement is simple and terse; it is evidently intended to be wholly comprehensive. Its decisive, almost abrupt tone would seem to forbid either question or argument. The old-world narrator of the sublime event thus briefly chronicled was a poet of no mean quality, though moved by the natural conceit of man to give undue importance to the earth as his own particular habitation. The perfect confidence with which he explains ‘God’ as making ‘two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, the lesser light to rule the night,’ is touching to the verge of pathos; and the additional remark which he throws in, as it were casually,--‘He made the stars also,’ cannot but move us to admirat...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temporal-power-a-study-in-supremacy-6921/chapters/16/index.md)