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Abraham Flexner achievement actual Adams's American amongst appear Aristippus attained attempt 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 idea 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 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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Page 216 - 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.
Page 202 - Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which come naturally to many of us.
Page 169 - 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...
Page 27 - So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Page 33 - 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.
Page 169 - 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.
Page 220 - 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.
Page 41 - 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." BOSWELL: "But suppose now, sir, that one of your intimate friends were apprehended for an offense for which he might be hanged.
Page 202 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 41 - 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.