 | 1903 - 618 pages
...all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic-engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order, ready, like the steam-engine, to be turned to any kind of work and spin the gossamers, as well as forge the anchors,... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...till he fulfils the ideal of Thomas Huxley, who wrote in 1868 in his essay on "A Liberal Education": "That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in his youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work,... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 pages
...of whom the most cogent character-sketch is Huxley's celebrated definition of the Educated Man : ... so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine, with all its... | |
 | Dorothy Mermin - 1993 - 212 pages
...poet, Huxley as scientist — are her interpreters: reading her riddle, turning her laws into language. That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who...parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order . . . whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the... | |
 | Lori Anne Loeb - 1994 - 237 pages
...to reduce it to a machine at the disposal of man. Eno's quotes Huxley's description of perfection: his body is the ready servant of his will, and does...order, ready like a steam engine, to be turned to try any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind.63 The ideal... | |
 | Mahatma Gandhi - 1997 - 290 pages
...myself or those around me? Why have I learned these things? Professor Huxley has thus defined education: "That man I think has had a liberal education who...parts of equal strength and in smooth working order . . . whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the fundamental truths of nature . . . whose passions... | |
 | Joan Davenport Carris - 2003 - 501 pages
...education, whatever may be the force of authority, or of the numbers, upon the other side. 80 That man has had a liberal education who has been so trained...capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic 85 engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine,... | |
 | Barbara Ann Suess - 2003 - 218 pages
...and Where to Find It (1868), Huxley purports: That man, 1 think, has had a liberal education who lias been so trained in youth that his body is the ready...ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, ic is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength,... | |
 | William Mathews - 2005 - 377 pages
...the bellowing monarch of the fields ! CHAPTEE XVI. RBSERVBD POW1B. A man BO trained in youth that Ms body is the ready servant of his will, and does with...is capable of, — whose intellect is a clear, cold logic-engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order, ready like a steam-engine... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 2006 - 289 pages
...to be found in one of the addresses in this volume but demanding to be emphasized by quotation here; "That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that Ms body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism,... | |
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of... 
