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... civilization to which humanity tends , the roots from which it sprang , the germinal forces that gave it birth , ought , I conceive , to be made known . Nor am I linked to George Eliot subjectively only ; objectively also there are ...
... civilization to which humanity tends , the roots from which it sprang , the germinal forces that gave it birth , ought , I conceive , to be made known . Nor am I linked to George Eliot subjectively only ; objectively also there are ...
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... civilization -a generalization which is , I think , calculated to throw fresh light on the land question - was first brought forward by Mr. Gaskell , in lectures to working men delivered in Leeds , Manchester , and other places in the ...
... civilization -a generalization which is , I think , calculated to throw fresh light on the land question - was first brought forward by Mr. Gaskell , in lectures to working men delivered in Leeds , Manchester , and other places in the ...
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... civilization and a certain amount of high culture , we should feel no surprise if we had to learn concerning these tribes , that when brought into relations with men of different type - I mean men hardy , fierce , and truculent - they ...
... civilization and a certain amount of high culture , we should feel no surprise if we had to learn concerning these tribes , that when brought into relations with men of different type - I mean men hardy , fierce , and truculent - they ...
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... civilization to shame , we ought to learn this lesson : -The surroundings of our race in childhood and youth are full of adverse influences , and character is daily suffering injury that direct moral teaching will never rectify . We ...
... civilization to shame , we ought to learn this lesson : -The surroundings of our race in childhood and youth are full of adverse influences , and character is daily suffering injury that direct moral teaching will never rectify . We ...
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... civilization . We have lively predatory instincts , keen pursuit of gain , treachery , cunning , gross injustice , brutal selfishness , rampant in our midst . Individuals of the highest type , those who are by nature good and gentle ...
... civilization . We have lively predatory instincts , keen pursuit of gain , treachery , cunning , gross injustice , brutal selfishness , rampant in our midst . Individuals of the highest type , those who are by nature good and gentle ...
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action amongst anti-social barbarous become British cause character child civilization comfort conduct desire Dhimal disease domestic duty emotional equality evil evolution existence fact Familistère feeling freedom future gentle George Eliot girls give habits happiness heart Herbert Spencer human nature ideal individual industrial instincts intellectual J. S. Mill jealousy John Bull John Stuart Mill justice knowledge labour liberty live man's marriage married means meliorist ment mental mind misery moral mother natural selection never noble organism outward parents pleasure poor population present progress pure race reform regard relations religion result Robert Owen says Scientific Meliorism sense sentiment social class social equality social units society spirit suffering sympathy tender Thomas Carlyle thought tion true truth Unitary Home W. R. Greg whilst whole women young youth
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Page iii - The good want power but to weep barren tears : The powerful goodness want, — worse need for them : The wise want love : and those who love want wisdom : And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Page 74 - WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see ! What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me ? . Not more than others I deserve, Yet God hath given me more ; For I have food while others starve, Or beg from door to door.
Page 233 - It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth, within the limits imposed by the rights and interests of others, that human beings become a noble and beautiful object of contemplation ; and as the works partake the character of those who do them, by the same process human life also becomes rich, diversified, and animating, furnishing more abundant aliment to high thoughts and elevating feelings, and strengthening the tie...
Page 139 - Women, then, are only children of a larger growth; they have an entertaining tattle and sometimes wit; but for solid, reasoning good-sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for fourand-twenty hours together. ... A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them...
Page 274 - But he answered and said unto him that told him , Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Page ix - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Page 120 - He roved among the vales and streams, In the green wood and hollow dell ; They were his dwellings night and day, — But Nature ne'er could find the way Into the heart of Peter Bell. In vain, through every changeful year, Did Nature lead him as before ; A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
Page 261 - O tender pride! Two faces o'er a cradle bent: Two hands above the head were locked; These pressed each other while they rocked, Those watched a life that love had sent. O solemn hour!
Page 108 - Caleb Garth often shook his head in meditation on the value, the indispensable might of that myriadheaded, myriad-handed labour by which the social body is fed, clothed, and housed. It had laid hold of his imagination in boyhood. The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making, the...
Page 234 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.