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Newguest Posted 18 years ago
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Hi guys

I have a problem with understanding the part in bold.

Is it possible for someone to write it in simpler terms (without omitting details) so that it sounds clearer? I understand all of the words, but cannot make sense of what it means in general, it looks confusing to me.

His father, Halfdan the Black, had already begun this rough but salutary process,--inspired by the cupidities and instincts, by the faculties and opportunities, which the good genius of this world, beneficent often enough under savage forms, and diligent at all times to diminish anarchy as the world's worst savagery, usually appoints in such cases,--conquest, hard fighting, followed by wise guidance of the conquered;--but it was Harald the Fairhaired, his son, who conspicuously carried it on and completed it.
  

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inspired by the cupidities and instincts, by the faculties and opportunities, which the good genius of this world, beneficent often enough under savage forms, and diligent at all times to diminish anarchy as the world's worst savagery, usually appoints in such cases,--conquest, hard fighting, followed by wise guidance of the conquered; You have to omit details in order to make good sense of this very convoluted and archaic sentence: Halfdan followed the natural instincts of all humans in his invasion and conquest, and in his subsequent ruling of the conquered country. "the good genius of this world" = *** or Nature depending on your point of view.

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  • inspired by the cupidities and instincts, by the faculties and opportunities, which the good genius of this world, beneficent often enough under savage forms, and diligent at all times to diminish anarchy as the world's worst savagery, usually appoints in such cases,--conquest, hard fighting, followed by wise guidance of the conquered; You have to omit details in order to make good sense of this very convoluted and archaic sentence: Halfdan followed the natural instincts of all humans in his invasion and conquest, and in his subsequent ruling of the conquered country.
  • "the good genius of this world" = *** or Nature depending on your point of view.
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inspired by the cupidities and instincts, by the faculties and opportunities, which the good genius of this world, beneficent often enough under savage forms, and diligent at all times to diminish anarchy as the world's worst savagery, usually appoints in such cases,--conquest, hard fighting, followed by wise guidance of the conquered;
You have to omit details in order to make good
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Feebs11 inspired by the cupidities and instincts, by the faculties and opportunities, which the good genius of this world, beneficent often enough under savage forms, and diligent at all times to diminish anarchy as the world's worst savagery, usually appoints in such cases,--conquest, hard fighting, followed by wise guidance of the conquered;


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NewguestHi
Maybe I'll write in more details what I have prblems with regarding this sentence:
by the faculties (what does the word "faculty" mean in this context, is it "power"?),>> ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action

beneficent often enough under savage forms (hm
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