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...ERS ................................................................. 127 ECONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ............... 128 ... ...CONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ............... 128 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY .......................................................... ...ANCING THE BUDGET—TAXES FOR YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY ...................... 152 ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE ......................................................... ... are in conflict with each other. We have conflicts within our own value systems and between what we value and what others value. ―On ... ...ght add the assumption that truth is better than ignorance, but all belief systems would support that claim. They would merely disagree on what truth... ...hen some teachings of respected people may work their way into the belief systems. Predestination, some jihads, and ideas on when the soul enters or... ...ave the tools to question traditions you should be an expert in logic, in comparative religions, in cosmology, in evolutionary biology. Would a high... ...kers‘ output! ―In the 33 years from 1970 to 2003 if we look at the comparative level of European prosperity, Sweden dropped from fifth to 14 ... ...a and to other mainlands and islands. This gave him far more geologic and comparative evidence than any of the other theorists hypothesizing evoluti...

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...ught it worthwhile when he had seemed happy as a part-owner. Then came the economic meltdown, and in one short summer the dealership had gone bankrupt... ...n force today in Canada, America, Britain and countries with similar legal systems. What is it? It is your right, as a juror, to refuse to convict an ... ...ed physician-assisted dying in the jurisdictions studied appeared to enjoy comparative social, economic, educational, professional and other privilege... ...d dying in the jurisdictions studied appeared to enjoy comparative social, economic, educational, professional and other privileges. Euthanasia and ot...

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... Confederation or the President of the United States—for each of these two systems is an exemplary and encouraging instance of the possibility of the ... ... States—taking a propagandist course and proposing extensions of their own systems to the suffering belligerents. 12 What Is Coming? But nothing of t... ...yond precedent. It has also de- stroyed freedom—of movement, of speech, of economic enterprise. Hardly anyone alive has escaped the worry of it and th... ...ve, 14 What Is Coming? it means that there lies ahead a period of extreme economic and political dislocation. The credit system has been strained, an... ...ply an ebb of vigour on both sides, unusual hardship, a general social and economic disorganisation and grading down. The fact that a great kill- ing ... ... food when the butcher and baker insisted upon cash. It would be only with comparative slowness that the bulk of men would realise that a fabric of co... ... this chapter an attempt is to be made to strike a balance between the two systems of forces, and guess how much will be private and how much public i... ... some years increasingly run on far-seeing collectivist lines. Against the comparatively little and mutually jealous British or American capitalists a... ...or an irrational resistance to all new things. Ameri- can universities are comparatively youthful and sometimes quite surprisingly innovating, and Ame...

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...ain sections reflecting upon the es- tablished methods of sociological and economic science…. The last four words will not attract the butterfly reade... ... attempt to please here. Even if I presented all my tri-clinic crystals as systems of cubes—— ! Indeed I felt it would not be worth doing. But having ... ...dary 12 A Modern Utopia lines the epidemic, the breeding barbarian or the economic power, will gather its strength to overcome you. The swift march o... ...intellectual basis of mankind is established, that the rules of logic, the systems of counting and measure- ment, the general categories and schemes o... ... native earth has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class ... ...e planet; and feeding them and distrib- uting from them, innumerable minor systems, clean little electric tramways I picture them, will spread out ove... ... only in the end to strengthen with the stuff of experience, to enhance by comparative disappointment his imagination of what she might have meant to ... ...il the morrow. We are to go to Lucerne because there there is a demand for comparatively unskilled labour in carving wood, which seems to us a sort of... ...occupations as I am, it will certainly be the botanist who will notice the comparative absence of animals about us. He will put it in the form of a te...

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...d unusual mental lucidity, and she found in biology, and par- ticularly in comparative anatomy, a very considerable inter- est, albeit the illuminatio... ... decent 29 H. G . Wells income—independently.” “Women have practically no economic freedom,” said Miss Miniver, “because they have no political freed... ... should be the Queen. They should never come into contact with politics or economics—or any of those things. And we men would work for them and serve ... ...rms it seemed plausible and possible. But in between these wider phases of comparative confidence were gaps of disconcert- ing doubt, when the univers... ... that they at least had found a way of earning a living, and had that much economic superiority to herself. It did not occur to her that save for some... ...t Portland Street. She was working very steadily at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonder- fully relieved to have her mind engaged upon o... ...hould be thinking about biology. She was very greatly exercised by the two systems of val- ues—the two series of explanations that her comparative ana...

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...hristian theology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparative theology in this distinction between the Being of Nature (cf. K... ...radiction. The truly religious have been content to lapse quietly into the comparative sanity of an unformulated Arianism, they have left it to the sc... ...avenger; their sexual passions and perplexities. . . . Each of these great systems of needs and efforts brings its own sort of sediment into religion.... ...the Deity, having once decided upon intervention, did not, instead of this comparatively trivial meteorological assistance, adopt the more effective c... ...e new religion regard as the chief misconceptions of God, having put these systems of ideas aside from our explanations, the path is cleared for the s... ...Most of the old religions derive from a patriarchal phase. God is in those systems the Ancient of Days. I know of no Christian attempt to represent or... ...lluminating co-operation with those who deal with the food and housing and economic life of the community. And again quite parallel with these persona... ...es and that goods should be distributed; land must be administered and new economic possibilities developed. The drift of things is in the direction o... ... the distri- bution of bread, the notification of measles, for hygiene and economics and suchlike affairs. The better we organise such things, the fre...

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..., thinking of it.” “A social smash-up.” 6 The Secret Places of the Heart “Economic. Social. Yes. Don’t you?” “A social smash-up seems to me altogethe... ...was com- ing, but nobody thought it would come. We had been born in peace, comparatively speaking; we had been brought up in peace. There was talk of ... ...amily found some difficulty, it would seem, in readjusting his mind to the comparative in- nocence of Anthony, and Sir Richmond and the young lady on ... ...cience and honour than they have ever been before. In matters of property, economics and public conduct it will probably be just the reverse. Then, th... ...lism, and that she had what he considered to be a most unfeminine grasp of economic ideas. He thought her attitude towards so- cialism a very sane one... ...and peace. We haven’t got the right system, we have inefficient half-baked systems, or no system at all, and a wild confusion and war of ideas in all ...

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...counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is lacking officially is very largely... ...en killed and in each there was an attempt to put the fourth in a place of comparative safety. In one case a general took the fourth son in as an atte... ...s carried on her admirable campaign with less interference with her normal economic life than any other power. The first person I spoke to upon the pl... ...d high to go to Italy…. I doubt if English people fully realise either the economic sturdiness or the political courage of their Italian ally. Italy i... ...emanded a remoter wisdom. In the long run she would have been swallowed up economically and politically by Germany if she had not fought; but that was... ...epair vans and so forth needed to go with the aeroplanes; she would need a comparatively small army of infantry armed with machine guns, with motor tr... ...ready-made borrowed stuff in most of people’s philosophies of the war. The systems of authentic opinion in this world of thought about the war are lik... ... our social injustices. They are the failures of our social ad educational systems. We may regret their pitiful degradation, we may exonerate them fro...

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...d the circumstances of the period: the imperfect state of edu- cation, the comparative scarcity of books, and the limited opportunities of intellectua... ... of- ten enough defect in such a department or such a choice; and in those systems, where ignorance and malice, favouritism, intrigue, and violence go... ... verb———is spelt with a double A, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives——and——, and the super- latives——and———, to knit their brows wh... ... the enjoyment of his wife, and who on the other side felt the care of his economics lie heavy upon his shoulders, as it does on mine, was resolved to...

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...here we are.” He was able to get through the other crises of dressing with comparative resoluteness and calm. His first adornment was the sleeveless d... ...ers was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a good dea... ...e president nor a lot of monkeying with foreign affairs, but a good— sound economical—business—administration, that will give us a chance to have some... ...treamline bodies, hill-climbing power, wire wheels, chrome steel, ignition systems, and body colors. It was much more than a study of transportation. ... ...s you’re just a plug business man, he gets to shooting off his mouth about economics or literature or foreign trade con- ditions, and you just ease in... ..., characterized by their complete plants and the finest school-ventilating systems in the country, bar none; our magnificent new hotels and banks and ... ...at gets double-crossed. Well, now we’ve been ethical and got it out of our systems, the question is where we can raise a loan to handle some of the pr... ...ls, wavered against the serene ashen evening. Howat Penny, standing in the comparative clearing of a road, decided that the shifting regular flight wo... ...er as a human being, to like and dislike her instead of accepting her as a comparatively movable part of the furniture, and he compassionated that hus...

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...p deepest while fancying ourselves most awake! Which of your Philosophical Systems is other than a dream-theo- rem; a net quotient, confidently given ... ...h, the worst death, a spiritual. What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words. High Air-castles are cunningly built ... ...him a public graduate. But omitting these broken, unsatisfactory thrums of Economical relation, let us present rather the following small thread of Mo... ...world an addi- tional horse’s power in the grand corn-mill or hemp-mill of Economic Society. For me too had such a leading-string been provided; only ... ...t profess ourselves unable to explain. Certain Landlords’ Bills, and other economic Documents, bearing the mark of Settlement, indicate that he was no... ...countries, for some eighteenpence a day; but for Fantasy planets and solar-systems will not suffice. Witness your Pyrrhus conquering the world, yet dr... ...d a whole Infernal Chase in his rear; so that the countenance of Hunger is comparatively a friend’s! Thus 114 Sartor Resartus must he, in the temper ... ...herself in civic Titles, without al- tering her now fixed nature,—would be comparatively an unproductive task, were we even unsuspicious of its be- in... ...from her; seldom looking up towards the Heavenly Luminaries, and then with comparative indifference. Like the Druids, on the other hand, they live in ...

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...mable indifference behind the rampart of the counter. Then the customer of comparatively tender years would get suddenly disconcerted at having to dea... ...lidded eyes, refreshed by a night of peaceful slumber, sent out glances of comparative alertness. Through the park railings these glances beheld men a... ... dominated and determined by the tool and the pro- duction—by the force of economic conditions. Capitalism has made socialism, and the laws made by th... ... of grace: the secret of fate discovered in the material side of life; the economic condition of the world responsible for the past and shaping the fu... ... timidly, in our ignorance of the effect that may be produced by any given economic change upon the happiness, the morals, the intellect, the history ... ... that. Y ou plan the future, you lose yourselves in reveries of economical systems derived from what is; whereas what’s wanted is a clean sweep and a ... ...ed. Much less—hardly at all. They shouted at each other in the jingle with comparative cheerfulness. But suddenly the mater- nal anxiety broke out afr...

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...me, inevitably the scenical features (what aesthetically may be called the comparative advantages) of the several murders are reviewed and valued. One... ...really had moral and spiritual relations, how much more with regard to the comparative trifles (as in the ultimate relations of human nature they are)... ... to have descended into the communi- cation of truth merely scientific, or economic, or worldly. And the three reasons are these:—First, Because such ... ...ing an answer, in connection with this revival, was one with regard to the comparative fitness of the Antigone for giving a representative idea of the... ... comets (according to the theory of some speculators)—to connect different systems together. No doubt there is much truth in this: a few Leibnitzes in...

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... up, and she never seemed to understand anything whatever of the political Systems across which she came to me. Also she forbade all toys on Sundays e... ...ment offices of a fifth of mankind were all within an hour’s stroll, great economic changes were going on un- der our eyes, now the hoardings flamed w... ...m a startling quality of living knowledge. From these pilgrims we got to a comparative treat- 60 The New Machiavelli ment of religions, and from that... ...ise but pain… . But while I was fearless of theology I must confess it was comparatively late before I faced and dared to probe the se- crecies of sex... ...s and knew it, religious teachers were impostors in league with power, the economic system was an elaborate plot on the part of the few to expropriate... ...d jar of men’s activities. And in such a country as that valley social and economic rela- tions were simple and manifest. Instead of the limitless con... ... the unencumbered man, mental and temperamental incompatibilities mattered comparatively little. But now the wife, and particularly the loving childle...

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...doxy is stifling to any free exercise of intellect. This cause, as well as economic prejudice, has made it difficult for the “in- tellectuals” to co-o... ... safety or privileges, it includes all who advocate any great political or economic change, and all classes which, through their pov- erty or through ... ...ge-earner in existing society. All three also have much in common in their economic doctrine. All three regard capital and the wages sys- tem as a mea... ...igin in material conditions, and these he takes to be embodied in economic systems. Political constitutions, laws, religions, philosophies—all these h... ...e.” However, in 1857, after eight years of captiv- ity, he was sent to the comparative freedom of Siberia. From there, in 1861, he succeeded in escapi... ... to prove that, if production were more scientific and better organized, a comparatively small amount of quite agreeable work would suffice to keep th... ...me la- bor for the satisfaction of our wants is not imposed by politi- cal systems or by the exploitation of the working classes; it is due to physica... ... pay for the work which is considered more valu- able. All these different systems are compatible with the com- mon ownership of land and capital, tho... ...vided he were willing to “scorn delights and live laborious days.” And the comparatively small num- ber of men with an invincible horror of work—the s...

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...ld is the more important thing. It may be objected, however, that existing economic con- ditions make life very uncertain for many very sound and whol... ... comfort, his insurance against premature or accidental death or temporary economic or physical dis- ablement, some minimum provision for old age and ... ...he organization of employments in any way that will not hamper progress in economic production. And if we can persuade the T rade Unions—and there is ... ...as to associate definite sounds with definite objects and ideas, a bias so comparatively pow- 77 H G Wells erful in the mind of man as to distinguish... ...ial foundation of the home at the other, and the next is the influx of new systems of thought, of feeling, and of interpretation about the general iss... ...anisations as the Association Phonétique Internationale, may be instanced. Systems concocted in a hurry, in a half-commercial or wholly commercial and... .... There, the objector submits, lies the quin- tessence of the matter. Both systems need watching, need criticism, the pruning knife and the stimulant,... ...rk for adolescent students in any subject, in philology just as much as in comparative anatomy, and in history just as much as in economics. The cheap... ...e modern subject for “Huxley”—”Huxley” they will call the subject, and not Comparative Anatomy, on the model of “Euclid”—or for the retention of compu...

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...had talked to the President in Washington, visited Philadelphia, and had a comparatively loitering afternoon in New York. What had I to say about it? ... ...t Look at India, again, and South Africa. Is it not manifest that from the economic and busi- ness points of view each of these is an entirely separat... ...entirely upon British gold—those impassioned British imperialist views the economic link theory would lead me to expect. And another link, too, upon w... ...pan in Welt-Politik is our ally. You see, the British Empire has no common economic in- terests and no natural common enemy. It is not adapted to any ... ...y the most foolish is this, that we are in “an age of specialisation.” The comparative fruitfulness and hopefulness of our social order, in comparison... ...ty as a whole would, I believe, get far more out of a man if he had such a comparatively brief passion of toil than if he worked, with occasional laps... ...ilities open to the race; the traditional life of mankind, its traditional systems of association, are challenged and threatened; and all the social t... ...r that from the gradually evolved societies of Europe. The European social systems grow and flower upon their roots, in soil which has made them and t... ...lf million were born and brought up in one or other of the European social systems, and the parents of an- other twenty-six millions were foreigners. ...

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...out exaggeration, that the measure of the worth of any social institution, economic, domestic, 11 John Dewey political, legal, religious, is its effe... ... addi- tion, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life. The achievements accumulated from g... ...e is in a country like our own a variety of races, religious affiliations, economic divisions. Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal politic... ...matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own territory, was comparatively homo- geneous. But with the development of commerce, trans- p... ... it, control has in this view a flavor of coercion or compulsion about it. Systems of government and theo- ries of the state have been built upon this... ..., the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another. Comparatively speaking, such modes of influence may be regarded as personal... ...been loaded by all the successes which have preceded. Stimuli conducive to economical and effective response, such as our system of roads and means of... ... future, rewards for their present sacrifices. Everybody knows how largely systems of pun- ishment have had to be resorted to by educational sys- tems... ...r counterparts in formulations which have been made in classic philosophic systems; and that they involve the chief problems of philosophy—such as min...

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...n, the first made by any power, being formed on great consid eration of the comparative strength and resources of the parties, the length of time, an... ...ease of population. Our system was supposed to be adapted only to boundaries comparatively narrow. These have been widened beyond conjecture; the memb... ...s can commit no greater error than to adopt or continue any feature in their systems of government which may be calculated to create or increase the l... ...of the Union, I shall steadily oppose the creation of those institutions and systems which in their nature tend to pervert it from its legitimate purp... ...proposition that no more money shall be collected than the necessities of an economical administration shall require all parties seem to acqui esce. ... ...greater danger of overthrow if our present population were con fined to the comparatively narrow limits of the original thirteen States than it is no... ... ben efits realized will be equal and mutual. Of the compli cated European systems of national polity we have here tofore been independent. From th... ... from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expenses of a wise, economical, and efficient administration of the Government. To reach this... ...forbear for the present from expressing an opinion as to the wisest and most economical mode in which the Government can lend its aid in accomplishing...

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...ty and ignorance, I assure them earnestly that I know ten times as much of economics and a hundred times as much of practical administration as Marx d... ...hanging the minds of those who read it, in spite of its unsound capitalist economics, its pa- rade of quotations from books which the author had eithe... ... forces of love- lessness and greed had built up our own sordid capitalist systems, driven by invisible proprietorship, robbing the poor, defacing the... ...n and law and intellect, which would never themselves have discovered such systems, their natural bent being towards welfare, economy, and life instea... ... votion to his system of government, but he knows perfectly well that such systems, in spite of their moral pretensions, serve selfish and ambitious t... ...the mere necessities of the case, giving way to ordered Socialism. For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract ... ... them, to be conscious of the void himself. Wagner, on the other hand, was comparatively a practical man. It is possible to learn more of the world by... ...ody dreams of disputing the greater difficulty of the prose forms, and the comparative triviality of versification. Yet in dramatic music, as in dra- ...

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...n whom they had displaced. Miss Wilson’s young ladies, being instructed in economics, knew that this proved that the land was being used to produce wh... ...lege to other colleges is due, not to any difference of system, but to the comparative rea- sonableness of its laws and the mildness and judgment with... ...buy labor in the cheapest market, and our poor friend, just as ignorant of economics as Sir John, of course did not know that this was untrue. However... ...urt dress, was only £150, I cannot see how I could possibly have been more economical, unless you ex- pect me to go in rags. I am sorry that Madame Sm... ...common deal table with oil cans and paint pots upon it. At the other end a comparatively luxurious show was made by a large bookcase, an elaborate com... ... policy without Socialism. The theory of Free T rade is only applicable to systems of exchange, not to systems of spoliation. Our system is one of spo... ...ught of him as an upright and perfect man deeply inter- ested in her. Yet, comparatively liberal as her education had been, she had no idea of any int...

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...ttinger Professional Staff Member Madeleine Blot Counsel Antwion M. Blount Systems Engineer Sam Brinkley Professional Staff Member Geoffrey Scott Brow... ...draws from multiple sources—Islam, history, and the region’s political and economic malaise. He also stresses griev- ances against the United States w... ...ect unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia. Social and Economic Malaise In the 1970s and early 1980s, an unprecedented flood of we... ...se of social obligations. By the late 1980s, diminishing oil revenues, the economic drain from many unprofitable development projects, and population ... ...suing secular as well as religious studies, were products of edu- cational systems that generally devoted little if any attention to the rest of the w... ...tion they were expected to analyze.The poor state of the FBI’s information systems meant that such access depended in large part on an analyst’s perso... ...ing directly involved in frontline rescue operations. The NYPD experienced comparatively fewer internal command and con- trol and communications issue... ...ull-time effort, and the director of the CIA should focus on extending its comparative advantages. Recommendation:The CIA Director should emphasize (a... ... proposal to be consistent with it. Each agency would con- centrate on its comparative advantages in building capabilities for joint missions.The oper...

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... the child as being rather amusing to irritate you; also the child, having comparatively no nerves, may be unable to conceive your meaning vividly eno... ...lt against their industrial slavery. The most important simple fundamental economic truth to impress on a child in complicated civili- zations like ou... ...on before his own turn comes. 29 Shaw Taboo in Schools THE SUPPRESSION of economic knowledge, disastrous as it is, is quite intelligible, its corrupt... ...ust not pretend, then, that I have a system ready to replace all the other systems. Obstructing the way of the proper organization of childhood, as of... ...n children as a necessary part of their social training. The result of our economic folly is that we are a nation of undesirable acquaintances; and th... ...ven in its present delusive form, has enabled Democracy to oust tyrannical systems in spite of all its vulgarities and stupidi- ties and rancors and i... ...ater, the facts of age and time still inexorably con- demn most parents to comparative solitude when their chil- dren marry. This may be a privation a... ...ersion is a great work of literary art, and the continen- tal versions are comparatively artless. T o read a dull book; to listen to a tedious play or...

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...cal origin of such abnormalities of the mind as are called “criminal” is a comparatively new idea. The whole subject has long been dealt with from the... ...minal code deals with the rights of property; yet nearly all of this is of comparatively modern growth. A new emotion may take possession of man which... ...t from it, which together make up the nervous system of man. None of these systems is perfect. They are of all degrees of imper- fection down to the u... ...vironment they will fail, or “go down.” Tens of thousands of men live in a comparatively easy environment and pass their lives as useful citizens with... ... be complete. There are too many weak machines, too many defective nervous systems, too many badly organized brains. Accidents are inevitable, and som... ...aid down and thus urging their violation. With weak machines and imperfect systems, where not only are the restrictions imperfect, the habits not well... ...re to withstand. While most crimes against persons are not directly due to economic causes, still the indirect effect of property is gener- ally prese... ...t be reckoned with in our conclusions with regard to present-day behavior, economic or otherwise. During the last thirty years, psychological laborato... ...e prevented if the state would undertake to improve the general social and economic condition of those who get the least. Only a fraction of the money...

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...een done in England in tracing the course of evolution in nature, history, economics, morals and religion, little had been done in tracing the develop... ...s difficulties; (2) Indirect reasons, derived from observation of animals (comparative psychology) and of the insane and hysterical (psycho-analysis).... ...ingly in this first lecture I shall try to give a brief description of the systems of ideas within which our investigation is to be carried on. If the... ... force an outlet for itself; hence it becomes necessary to entertain whole systems of false beliefs in order to hide the nature of what is desired. Th... ... great minuteness; so long as we confine our- selves to the observation of comparatively large masses, the way in which the equilibrium will be upset ... ...nue until the result is achieved, after which there is usually a period of comparative quiescence. A cycle of actions of this sort has marks by which ... ...hology is concerned essentially with ac- tual particulars, not merely with systems of particulars. In this it differs from physics, which, broadly spe...

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...There might have been interwo- ven with the ritual or worship, a system of economics, or a code of civil prudence, or a code of health, or a theory of... ...ch man may descend below his own capacities of grandeur: the gods, in some systems of religion, have been such and so monstrous by excesses of wickedn... ...e Koran having pi- rated many sentiments from the Jewish and the Christian systems, could not but offer some rudiments of moral judg- ment; yet, becau... ...the Newmanite; 3, the Romanist;*4, the Evangelical enthusiast—as hold- ing systems of doctrine, ‘no one of which is capable of rec- *What, amongst Pro... ...ittle circles in the machinery within. Now History, what may be called the Comparative History of Modern Europe, countersigns the traveller’s opinion....

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... of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or suc- cor have they for t... ...or that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence, without any comparative. Material good has its tax, and if it came without desert or sw... ...h we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thw... ...nate; let him accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics; the more he has, the less is he willing to spare any one. Time i... ...onstructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nat... ...ric jar, the prism, and the chemist’s retort; in which we seek now only an economical use. Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to o... ...emblems; but we sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet,... ...ower to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and m... ... and it leaves out praise and blame and all weak emotions. All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal? Saints are ...

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... century, 41 Thomas de Quincey and the shattering everywhere given to old systems by the French Revolution, together with the universal energy of min... ...ugh all the world had been angry, when the shrieks and yells of ex- piring systems began to reverberate all the way from the belt of Orion; and positi... ...ive him: motion subjec- tive is in collusion with motion objective; duplex systems are in collusion with fraudulent stars, having no real partner- shi... ...ors as had moral and spiritual relations, how much more with regard to the comparative trifles, (as in the ultimate relations of human nature they are... ...nt to have descended into the communication of truth merely scientific, or economic, or 221 Thomas de Quincey worldly. And the reasons are these: Fir... ... great camp Coleridge was a leader, and fought amongst the primipili; yet, comparatively, he is still unknown. Heavy, indeed, are the arrears still du... ...t yet presented his credentials. On the other hand, upon Coleridge little, comparatively, has yet been written, whilst the separate characters on whic...

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...eads behind them, and not seeing where they fell. Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occu... ... that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It i... ...d, “is not this railroad which we have built a good thing?” Yes, I answer, comparatively good, that is, you might have done worse; but I wish, as you ... ... point, and as one not interested in the success or failure of the present economical and social arrangements. I was more independent than any farmer ... ... The reader will perceive that I am treating the sub ject rather from an economic than a dietetic point of view, and he will not venture to put my a... ...f you deny yourself no more, if you are not more religious? I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose pre cepts fill the reader wi...

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...l abnormal things and to great, while such epi- thets as “vast” are merely comparative. The cavern of the myrmeleon is vast in comparison with the hol... ...n to the ribs had taken place. These appearances in the right lobe were of comparatively recent date. The ossification had proceeded with very unusual... ... intentions of Jehovah, out of these inten- tions he built his innumerable systems of mind. In the matter of phrenology, for example, we first determi... ...tle nooks or recesses, the odds and ends of the struc- ture; and these the economic ingenuity of Dr. Bransby had also fitted up as dormitories; althou...