The Old Savage in the New CivilizationDoubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1928 - Počet stran: 239 |
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Strana 7
... mechanical revolution of the Nineteenth Century . Our great - grandparents would find themselves far more at home in the world of the Venerable Bede or of Alfred the Great than they would in the world we occupy to - day . With the ...
... mechanical revolution of the Nineteenth Century . Our great - grandparents would find themselves far more at home in the world of the Venerable Bede or of Alfred the Great than they would in the world we occupy to - day . With the ...
Strana 18
... mechanical environment has brought a correspond- ing improvement in human capacity . In fact , we know it is not true . Men were no less able in the days of Washington and Hamilton , and Channing and Fox , than they are to - day . We ...
... mechanical environment has brought a correspond- ing improvement in human capacity . In fact , we know it is not true . Men were no less able in the days of Washington and Hamilton , and Channing and Fox , than they are to - day . We ...
Strana 24
... mechanical civ- ilization made possible . This is the result of cre- ating machinery for which we have no method of control . This is the consequence of giving chil- dren matches to play with . The former British Secretary of War ...
... mechanical civ- ilization made possible . This is the result of cre- ating machinery for which we have no method of control . This is the consequence of giving chil- dren matches to play with . The former British Secretary of War ...
Strana 32
... mechanical age are illusory , and like the bron- tosaurs of the Triassic Period that developed a pro- tective armour so heavy that they bogged them- selves in the mud , man will be mired by the weight of his own inventions . Chapter II ...
... mechanical age are illusory , and like the bron- tosaurs of the Triassic Period that developed a pro- tective armour so heavy that they bogged them- selves in the mud , man will be mired by the weight of his own inventions . Chapter II ...
Strana 64
... mechanical appliances . In the first eagerness of our pursuit we did not know that we were following a one - way path along which there could be no retreat . Only within more recent years , as the machine process has fastened itself on ...
... mechanical appliances . In the first eagerness of our pursuit we did not know that we were following a one - way path along which there could be no retreat . Only within more recent years , as the machine process has fastened itself on ...
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Strana 89 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Strana 91 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Strana 3 - I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, aboul which hangs a true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?
Strana 27 - Death stands at attention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en masse ; ready, if called on, to pulverize, without hope of repair, what is left of civilization. He awaits only the word of command. He awaits it from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now — for one occasion only — his Master.
Strana 230 - Our opinions are incompatible with a united government even among ourselves. The Union has been prolonged thus far by miracles. I fear they cannot continue.
Strana 24 - To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our beliefs. We whose generations are ordained in this setting part...
Strana 55 - But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Strana 93 - The prosperous middle classes, who ruled the nineteenth century, placed an excessive value upon placidity of existence. They refused to face the necessities for social reform imposed by the new industrial system, and they are now refusing to face the necessities for intellectual reform imposed by the new knowledge.
Strana 27 - Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.
Strana 23 - Humanity stands to-day in a position of unique peril. An unanswered question is written across the future: Is man to be the master of the civilization he has created, or is he to be its victim?