 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...be called the mechanical age. It is the age which, with its whole might, teaches and practises the art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and contrivance. For the simplest operation, some help is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are all... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 424 pages
...of action as follows : " It is an age of machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word. Nothing is now done directly or by hand. All is by rule and calculated contrivance. Old modes of exertion are all discredited and thrown aside. On every hand the living artisan is driven... | |
 | 1843 - 1068 pages
...mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that term; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches,...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is done now directly, or by band; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...Mechanical Age. fit is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that wordji the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance.... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches...contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniment's, some cunning, abbreviating process, is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 460 pages
...all others, the mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word ; the ago which, with its whole undivided might,...practises, the great art of adapting means to ends. On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make room for a speedier, an inanimate... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by...hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning, abbreviating process is in readiness.... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, leaches, and prac:ises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all ^s by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some... | |
 | 1854 - 534 pages
...or moral age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word ; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches,...by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance Has any man or society of men a truth to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do ; they can nowise proceed... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by...cunning, abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old nrodes of exertion are all discredited, and thrown aside. On every hand, the living artisan is driven... | |
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Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery in every outward and... 
