Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social CriticismSmith, Elder & Company, 1869 - 272 Seiten |
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... population , that they have per- formed a great , an heroic work , by occupying themselves exclusively , for the last thirty years , with these Liberal nostrums , and that the right and good course for them now is to go on occupying ...
... population , that they have per- formed a great , an heroic work , by occupying themselves exclusively , for the last thirty years , with these Liberal nostrums , and that the right and good course for them now is to go on occupying ...
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... Population , again , and bodily health and vigour , are things which are nowhere treated in such an unintelligent , misleading , exaggerated way as in England . Both are really machinery ; yet how many people all around us do we see ...
... Population , again , and bodily health and vigour , are things which are nowhere treated in such an unintelligent , misleading , exaggerated way as in England . Both are really machinery ; yet how many people all around us do we see ...
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... population as mere machinery ; they have a more real and essential value . True ; but only as they are more intimately connected with a perfect spiritual condition than wealth or population are . The moment we disjoin them from the idea ...
... population as mere machinery ; they have a more real and essential value . True ; but only as they are more intimately connected with a perfect spiritual condition than wealth or population are . The moment we disjoin them from the idea ...
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... population , on coal , on wealth , - mere belief in machinery , and unfruitful ; and that it is wholesomely counteracted by culture , bent on seeing things as they are , and on drawing the human race onwards to a more complete ...
... population , on coal , on wealth , - mere belief in machinery , and unfruitful ; and that it is wholesomely counteracted by culture , bent on seeing things as they are , and on drawing the human race onwards to a more complete ...
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... population of that district would flee to the mines , and lead a sort of Robin Hood life under ground . For a long time , as I have said , the strong feudal habits of subordination and deference continued to tell upon the working ...
... population of that district would flee to the mines , and lead a sort of Robin Hood life under ground . For a long time , as I have said , the strong feudal habits of subordination and deference continued to tell upon the working ...
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admiration anarchy antipathy aristocratic class authority Barbarians bathos beauty believers in action best light Bishop Wilson Christianity conscience consciousness culture Daily Telegraph discipline divine doctrine England English fetish fire and strength force Frederic Harrison free-trade give Greek happiness Hebraism Hebraism and Hellenism Hellenising Hellenism human nature human perfection idea ideal intelligible law Irish Church kind labour law of things lend a hand Liberal friends liberty machinery man's maxim mechanical ment middle-class mind moral natural taste Nonconformists ordinary Oscar Browning ourselves passion perhaps Philistines political Populace population powers of sympathy practical operations praise present Protestantism Puritanism pursued race reason and justice Reformation religion religious organisations right reason Robert Buchanan rule seems sense side Sir Thomas Bateson society statesmen stock notions sweetness and light thing needful thought tion true truth virtuous mean voluntaryism words working-class worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 189 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Seite 49 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Seite 49 - Ages, in spite of all his imperfections ; and thence the boundless emotion and enthusiasm which Abelard excited. Such were Lessing and Herder in Germany, at the end of the last century ; and their services to Germany were in this way inestimably precious. Generations will pass, and literary monuments will accumulate, and works far more perfect than the works of Lessing and Herder will be produced in Germany; and yet...
Seite 26 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Seite 130 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.
Seite 22 - Bodily exercise profiteth little ; but godliness is profitable unto all things," says the author of the Epistle to Timothy. And the utilitarian Franklin says just as explicitly : — " Eat and drink such an exact quantity as suits the constitution of thy body^ in reference to the services of the mind...
Seite 45 - From the moment of reading that, I am delivered from the bondage of Bentham! the fanaticism of his adherents can touch me no longer. I feel the inadequacy of his mind and ideas for supplying the rule of human society, for perfection.
Seite 44 - Does your Majesty imagine that Job's good conduct is the effect of mere personal attachment and affection?" I well remember how, when first I read that, I drew a deep breath of relief, and said to myself: "After all, there is a stretch of humanity beyond Franklin's victorious good sense...
Seite 21 - Why, one has heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of the Times on the Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them...
Seite 10 - ... the danger now is, not that people should obstinately refuse to allow anything but their old routine to pass for reason and the will of God, but either that they should allow some novelty or other to pass for these too easily, or else that they should underrate the importance of them altogether, and think it enough to follow action for its own sake, without troubling themselves to make reason and the will of God prevail therein.