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" I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type... "
The Lure of London - Page 278
by Lilian Whiting - 1914 - 376 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 64

1848 - 788 pages
...that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing...
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The North American Review, Volume 67

1848 - 544 pages
...true in some respects, is overcharged in others, and is unfaithful because incomplete. " I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64

1848 - 806 pages
...that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading A on each other's heels, which form the existing...
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Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to ..., Volume 2

John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 602 pages
...that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64

1848 - 802 pages
...that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...think that the normal state of human beings is that of straggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels,...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 2

John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 588 pages
...that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 28

1853 - 802 pages
...nothing more. " I confess I am not charmed," says one of the soundest and strongest of modern writers,* " with the ideal of life held out by those who think...of human beings is that of struggling to ' get on ;' that the trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issue 51

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 pages
...thoughtful people are now inclined to agree rather with John Stuart Mill || when he says : "I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and * Labour Annual, 1897, p. 392. f P- 395. J p. 415. \\Political...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 2

John Stuart Mill - 1857 - 610 pages
...that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 6

1866 - 908 pages
...to support. The passage in Mr. Mill's writings is tho following:—"I confess I am not (•'harmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that tho normal •'-to of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, washing, elbowing,...
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