 | William James - 1900 - 330 pages
...before me in the daily lives of the laboring classes. Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every railway...cattleyards and mines, on lumber-rafts, among the fire*This address was composed before the Cuban and Philippine ware. Such outbursts of the passion... | |
 | James Ozro Engleman - 1918 - 334 pages
...before me in the daily lives of the laboring classes. Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every railway...and fire-proof building that is going up today. On freight trains, on the decks of vessels, in cattle-yards and mines, on lumber-rafts, among the firemen... | |
 | 1921 - 638 pages
...Intermediate Gradea. Subject: Careers of Danger and Daring; " Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every railway bridge and fireproof bulUlins that ¡s goiiiK np to-day. On freight trains, on the decks of vessels, in cattle yards, and... | |
 | 1920 - 322 pages
...TWENTY-SECOND STREET. NEW YORK. NY Vol. I No. 10 THE FAMILY ./Vo/ in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every railway...courage is incessant; and the supply never fails. There, eiery day of the year somewhere, is human nature in extremis for you. WILLIAM JAMES FEBRUARY 1921 Back... | |
 | Archie Green - 1993 - 586 pages
...remote spectator. . . . Heroism . . . was before me in the daily lives of the laboring classes ... on every railway bridge and fire-proof building that...courage is incessant; and the supply never fails. ... As I awoke to all this unidealized heroic life around me, the scales seemed to fall from my eyes;... | |
 | George Cotkin - 1994 - 236 pages
...when any individual faced a dangerous occupation; "Italian and Hungarian laborers in the Subway" or "on every railway bridge and fire-proof building that is going up today . . . the demand for courage is incessant; and the supply never fails." Building up to a crescendo... | |
 | Charlene Haddock Seigfried - 1996 - 366 pages
...noticed the daily heroism of the laboring classes (including Italian and Hungarian subway workers) "on freight-trains, on the decks of vessels, in cattle-yards and mines, on lumber rafts . . . and a wave of sympathy greater than anything I had ever before felt with the common... | |
 | William James - 2000 - 404 pages
...before me in the daily lives of the laboring classes. Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every railway...demand for courage is incessant; and the supply never falls. There, every day of the year somewhere, is human nature in extremis for you. And wherever a... | |
 | M. Gail Hamner - 2003 - 252 pages
...before me in the daily lives of the laboring classes, Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every railway...bridge and fire,proof building that is going up to,day, , , , There, every day of the year somewhere, is human nature in extremis for you, And wherever a scythe,... | |
 | George Cotkin - 2004 - 208 pages
...the exploits of workers "on freight-trains, on the decks of vessels, in cattle-yards and mines, . . . among the firemen and the policemen, the demand for...the year somewhere, is human nature in extremis for you."4* No one in the era better captured the essentials of the cult of heroism and 124 activism than... | |
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Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every railway bridge and fire-proof building that is going up to-day. On freight-trains, on the decks of vessels, in cattle-yards and mines, on lumber-rafts, among the... 
