Modern HumanistsSwan Sonnenschein, 1891 - 275 pages |
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... , i . , 387 . 2 Herr Oswald , writing in 1882 , notes that already the rising generation was turning away from Carlyle . Thomas Carlyle : ein Lebensbild , S. 3 . 1 The vogue of this ideal in fiction is a 2 Thomas Carlyle .
... , i . , 387 . 2 Herr Oswald , writing in 1882 , notes that already the rising generation was turning away from Carlyle . Thomas Carlyle : ein Lebensbild , S. 3 . 1 The vogue of this ideal in fiction is a 2 Thomas Carlyle .
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... writing Radical politicians , we can easily enough see , had no complete scheme for men or States to live by , but only principles of amelioration , corrective of the tyrannies and iniquities re - established or confirmed by the ...
... writing Radical politicians , we can easily enough see , had no complete scheme for men or States to live by , but only principles of amelioration , corrective of the tyrannies and iniquities re - established or confirmed by the ...
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... writing about . His strength , his true bent , did not lie that way ; and he was just doing what so many weaker young men have done — what , in fact , we have all done in our youth - putting on a priggish fashion of thought which was ...
... writing about . His strength , his true bent , did not lie that way ; and he was just doing what so many weaker young men have done — what , in fact , we have all done in our youth - putting on a priggish fashion of thought which was ...
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... writing a book of any kind otherwise than as a series of separate pictures , or repetitions of a protest in different figures . His vividness and his disconnectedness would appear to be correlative . He detested philosophical histories ...
... writing a book of any kind otherwise than as a series of separate pictures , or repetitions of a protest in different figures . His vividness and his disconnectedness would appear to be correlative . He detested philosophical histories ...
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... writing . The man who preaches silence turns out to be one of the most loquacious of writers , inasmuch as his didactic books say the same thing over and over again in fresh words , and , as there is no demonstration or logic , but only ...
... writing . The man who preaches silence turns out to be one of the most loquacious of writers , inasmuch as his didactic books say the same thing over and over again in fresh words , and , as there is no demonstration or logic , but only ...
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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.