Progress and Science: Essays in CriticismYale University Press, 1922 - 243 páginas |
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Abraham Flexner achievement actual Adams's American amongst appear Aristippus attained attempt become believe Brooks Adams capacity century civilisation co-operation Cole colleges conscious consequently course Descartes Dewey's difficulties doctrine earthly effort equally evil evolution exact sciences existence experience fact feel force G. D. H. Cole growth Henry Adams hopes human nature ideal individual industry intellectual intelligence J. B. Bury John Quincy Adams kind knowledge limits lives mankind Marius Marvin material means merely mind Miss Follett modern science moral moreover needs never notion organisation Outline of History Pater perfection Philosophical Realism possible practical present Professor Conklin Professor Dewey progress through science proved quoted R. H. Tawney realise reality reason recognise religion result says scientific scientist seems simply social progress society teachers theory things thought tion true truth universal Walter Pater Wells's whole words
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Página 218 - There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
Página 204 - Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,' in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.
Página 204 - Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has. ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. Every one of those impressions is the impression of the individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world.
Página 167 - As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross. The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old-fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within...
Página 31 - Competition of riches, honour, command, or other power, inclineth to contention, enmity, and war; because the way of one competitor, to the attaining of his desire, is to kill, subdue, supplant, or repel the other.
Página 167 - In any previous age, sex was strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Every one, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the Oriental goddesses was worshipped for her beauty. She was goddess because of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she was reproduction — the greatest and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund.
Página 204 - Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Página 39 - Talking of our feeling for the distresses of others; — JOHNSON: "Why, sir, there is much noise made about it, but it is greatly exaggerated. No, sir, we have a certain degree of feeling to prompt us to do good; more than that, Providence does not intend. It would be misery to no purpose.
Página 222 - I would not outlive that very thought. I have so abject a conceit of this common way of existence, this retaining to the Sun and Elements, I cannot think this is to be a Man, or to live according to the dignity of humanity.
Página 39 - Would you eat your dinner that day, Sir?' JOHNSON. 'Yes, Sir; and eat it as if he were eating it with me. Why, there's Baretti, who is to be tried for his life to-morrow, friends have risen up for him on every side; yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plumb-pudding the less. Sir, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind.