 | 1881 - 892 pages
...functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead, a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch , but its arms are too short: cordage and machinery never supply the place of life." And then John Ruskin, whose whole lifetime has been devoted to the exposure of error, the annihilation... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch, but its arms are too short ; cordage and machinery never supply the place of life. " I will not go into the metaphysics of that re-action by which wit takes the place of faith in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch, but its arms are too short, cordage and machinery never supply the place of life. Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 1152 pages
...functions of ты«. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead, a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch; but its arms are too short; cordage and machinery never supply the place of life." And then John Kuskin, whose whole lifetime has been devoted to the exposure of error, the annihilation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 650 pages
...great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch, but its arms are too short, cordage and machinery never supply the place of life. Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was... | |
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... force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now men fall abroad, — want polarity, — suffer in character and intellect. A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In... 