Modern Problems: A Discussion of Debatable SubjectsGeorge H. Doran, 1912 - 336 páginas |
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Agnostic arbitration aspect Balfour beauty become Bergson British Empire called cerning charity Charity Organization Society coal combustion common destructive distillation difficult direct discoveries dition effort energy essential evil existence fact feel flame force fortune function of money future gas fire hope human race Huxley idea individual interest J. H. Muirhead John Ruskin kind knowledge labour live material materialistic matter means mechanism ment Merrie England mind motion nation nature necessary never object organization pain peace perhaps phatic philosophy physical poem poor Poor Law possession possible poverty present problems production question realize recognized reform result rich Ruskin scientific sense side social society soul space spirit struggle suppose surely teleology Tennyson things thought tion true truth ultimate universe W. K. Clifford wealth whole wise worth
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Página 323 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Página 87 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Página 317 - What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpse-coffins at last? Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past?
Página 322 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Página 322 - ... mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without haste, but without remorse. My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which Retzsch has depicted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul.
Página 308 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Página 316 - Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.
Página 87 - ... if there be found in his book one sentence of a venturous edge, uttered in the height of zeal — and who knows whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit...
Página 300 - I am still very unwell, and tormented between the longing for rest and lovely life, and the sense of this terrific call of human crime for resistance and of human misery for help, though it seems to me as the voice of a river of blood which can but sweep me down in the midst of its black clots, helpless.
Página 304 - Men nearly always speak and write as if riches were absolute, and it were possible, by following certain scientific precepts, for everybody to be rich. Whereas, riches are a power like that of electricity, acting only through inequalities or negations of itself. The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbor's pocket.