 ... the way water would act. Now, all the schemes about voting, and districts, and annual Parliaments, and the rest, are engines, and the water or steam — the force that is to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings,...  Felix Holt: The Radical - Page 328by George Eliot - 1866 - 529 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1905 - 728 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...characters, we are very much like the idiot who thinks he'll cany milk in a can without a bottom. In my opinion, the notions about what mere voting will do are... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Great Britain - 1905 - 332 pages
...and I can see plainly enough that our all having power will do little towards it at present. . . . If we have false expectations about men's characters, we are very much like the idiot who thinks he can carry milk in a can without a bottom. In my opinion the notions about what mere voting will... | |
 | Readers - 1907 - 264 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...very much of that sort." "That's very fine," said a man, in dirty fustian, with a scornful laugh. " But how are we to get the power without votes?" "... | |
 | George Eliot - 1907 - 370 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...characters, we are very much like the idiot who thinks he'll cany milk in a can without a bottom. In my opinion, the notions about what mere voting will do are... | |
 | George Eliot - 1907 - 370 pages
...out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do [ 84 ] good work or bad depends on these feelings; and if...characters, we are very much like the idiot who thinks he'll cany milk in a can without a bottom. In my opinion, the notions about what mere voting will do are... | |
 | Daniel Cottom - Literature and society - 1987 - 276 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...thinks he'll carry milk in a can without a bottom. (FH, 305) What the language of feeling does not represent in Eliot's fiction, and what it is not meant... | |
 | Rosemarie Bodenheimer - History - 1988 - 268 pages
...depends on knowing how water will act. Political machinery will work only if men power it with good feelings, "and if we have false expectations about...much like the idiot who thinks he'll carry milk in a pail without a bottom" (249). Reform means the reform of public opinion so that it can penetrate the... | |
 | Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - Books - 1866 - 610 pages
...human nature—cut of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or had depends on these feelings; and if we have false expectations...what mere voting will do are very much of that sort." A. working-man's idea of a bishop.—"And what's a bishop ? A bishop's a parson dressed up, who sits... | |
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