...Cobden and Bright were doing their best to introduce the human element into economic legislation, " what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in Hfe. Plant nothing else and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals...

...Mr McChoakumchild, to the task of stuffing full of facts his classroom of nameless, numbered pupils: Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up...

...doom it to outright failure. Dickens's Hard Times opens with the crusty Thomas Gradgrind announcing, "Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts." Literary satire became LDS counsel in the third issue of the Contributor, revealing a...

...Comparative Epistemology of Animals 3.1 Reasoning Animals: On the Truthfulness of Literature and Science "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts". Those are the words of the horrible teacher Gradgrind in Dickens's novel Hard Times (1854/1974)...

...DICKENS 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are what are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring...

...behaviour would lead to increasing wealth and well-being (Box 2.5). BOX 2.5 HARD TIMES, CHARLES DICKENS 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are what are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds...

...艱苦時代》 。 狄更斯 將此部小說獻給卡萊爾， 便可看出後者的思想對小說家深遠 nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.... In this life, we want nothing but...

...The novel begins by bombarding the reader with Gradgrind's thundering words: "Now, what I want are facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." Gradgrind does not perceive the possibility that his words have another meaning: "facts" about life...

...the form of facts. Mr Gradgrind in Dickens' Hard Times (1891) makes this viewpoint brutally obvious: "Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." This philosophy is expounded at length by the fearsome school master, but even he eventually comes...