Modern HumanistsSwan Sonnenschein, 1891 - 275 pages |
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... English life in his old age , and M. Taine , twenty years ago , remarked that he was the writer to whom average Englishmen referred a foreigner who asked for the leading English thinker . This celebrity , as everybody knows , was built ...
... English life in his old age , and M. Taine , twenty years ago , remarked that he was the writer to whom average Englishmen referred a foreigner who asked for the leading English thinker . This celebrity , as everybody knows , was built ...
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... English intelligence was abnormally deadened and hide2 6 bound . Look to the matter of bookselling ,. 1 The vogue of this ideal in fiction is a measure of the socio - economic ethic of any period . Originally it was universal , either in ...
... English intelligence was abnormally deadened and hide2 6 bound . Look to the matter of bookselling ,. 1 The vogue of this ideal in fiction is a measure of the socio - economic ethic of any period . Originally it was universal , either in ...
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... English translation of the works of Voltaire , seem all to have stopped dead in the bookseller's hands , after starting with every sign of popularity . The editions cease in the last decade of the century . People were simply frightened ...
... English translation of the works of Voltaire , seem all to have stopped dead in the bookseller's hands , after starting with every sign of popularity . The editions cease in the last decade of the century . People were simply frightened ...
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... English Prose Literature , p . 163 . 2 Reminiscences , i . , 103 . 3 As to his mother's strong Radical bent , see Carlyle's letter to her , London Life , i . , 38. She is said to have taught him to admire Cromwell . Daily News , Feb. 7 ...
... English Prose Literature , p . 163 . 2 Reminiscences , i . , 103 . 3 As to his mother's strong Radical bent , see Carlyle's letter to her , London Life , i . , 38. She is said to have taught him to admire Cromwell . Daily News , Feb. 7 ...
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... English mind to better Can the claim be just ? Can the man whose teaching was a tissue of contradictions , whose philosophy was a fallacy , have influenced a whole generation for good ? We should be glad to believe so if we can ; and ...
... English mind to better Can the claim be just ? Can the man whose teaching was a tissue of contradictions , whose philosophy was a fallacy , have influenced a whole generation for good ? We should be glad to believe so if we can ; and ...
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Page 130 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Page 188 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 202 - AMONG the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious — certainly the least creditable — is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Page 126 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 175 - Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be...
Page 87 - I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it.
Page 146 - An army without weapons of precision, and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism of life.
Page 208 - ... a man ought to know any language or science he learns, thoroughly, while a woman ought to know the same language, or science, only so far as may enable her to sympathise in her husband's pleasures, and in those of his best friends.
Page 87 - The great advance in liberty of discussion, which. is one of the most important differences between the present time and that of my childhood, has greatly altered the moralities of this question ; and I think that few men of my father's intellect and public spirit, holding with such intensity of moral conviction as he did, unpopular opinions on religion, or on any other of the great subjects of thought...
Page 244 - ... a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.