 | Edward Carpenter - 1885 - 268 pages
...wife and children, you cannot also be of those who are happy without these things. Covet not overmuch. Let the strong desires come and go; refuse them not,...light will dissolve like gossamers before the sun. 2 Do not hurry : have faith. But he stands indifferent and waits on emergency, and so makes himself... | |
 | Helena Born - 1902 - 136 pages
...wife and children, you cannot also be of those who are happy without these things. Covet not overmuch. Let the strong desires come and go; refuse them not,...not that in them lurks finally the thing you want." Like Whitman, Carpenter is free from all taint of asceticism. Evil is not an objective foe to be slain... | |
 | 1904 - 448 pages
...and the self-indulgent divide things into good and evil — as it were to throw away the evil — But things cannot be divided into good and evil, but all...good so soon as they are brought into subjection." However much Carpenter may differ from Tolstoy through his refusal to condemn the physical side of... | |
 | Ernest Crosby - 1905 - 72 pages
...only evil which he recognizes. Our passions are good in themselves, but we must not let them rule us. For (over and over again) there is nothing that is...good so soon as they are brought into subjection. (Towards Democracy, p. 362.) When thy body — as needs must happen at times — is carried away on... | |
 | Mrs. Havelock Ellis - 1910 - 232 pages
...and the self-indulgent divide things into good and evil — as it were to throw away the evil ; "But things cannot be divided into good and evil, but all...good so soon as they are brought into subjection." This idea, that "the soul's slow disentanglement" is dependent on the way we use, not crush, the powers... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - 1912 - 544 pages
...and the self-indulgent divide things into good and evil — as it were to throw away the evil ; But things cannot be divided into good and evil, but all are good so soon as they -re brought into subjection. And seest thou not that except for Death thou couldst never overcome Death... | |
 | Edward Lewis - 1915 - 346 pages
...and the self-indulgent divide things into good and evil — as it were to throw away the evil ; But things cannot be divided into good and evil, but all are good so soon as they are brought into subjection.1 This theory is so sound as to be almost indisputable ; experience supports it through... | |
 | John Herman Randall - 1916 - 376 pages
...which is not ultimately for man and for his use— or which he need be afraid of, or ashamed at. But things cannot be divided into good and evil, but all...good so soon as they are brought into subjection." In other words, there are just two possible ways in which human beings can do wrong. ( 1 ) By perverting... | |
 | Ernest Charles Wilson - 1920 - 132 pages
...not mastery over it; and there is no good thing that is not evil if it have mastery over a man .... but all are good so soon as they are brought into subjection" (Carpenter). The Teachers of all time have brought us no more sublime philosophy than that of service.... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 888 pages
...wife and children, you cannot also be of those who are happy without these things. Covet not overmuch. Let the strong desires come and go; refuse them not,...light will dissolve like gossamers before the sun. Do not hurry; have faith. (Whither indeed should we hurry? is it not well here? A little shelter from... | |
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The ascetics and the self-indulgent divide things into good and evil— as it were to throw away the evil; But things cannot be divided into good and evil, but all are good so soon as they are brought into subjection. 
