“The” Phalanstery, Or, Attractive Industry and Moral HarmonyWhittaker, 1841 - 176 páginas |
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Página xiv - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there...
Página iv - But he more justly confides in " ceasing from doing " than in exhausting efforts at inadequate remedies. " From medicine to medicine is a change from disease to disease ; and man must cease from self-activity, ere the spirit can fill him with truth in mind or health in body. The Civilization is become intensely false, and thrusts the human being into false predicaments. The antagonism of business to all that is high and good and generic is hourly declared by the successful...
Página xiii - ... successful, as well as by the failing. The mercantile system, based on individual aggrandizement, draws men from unity ; its swelling columns of figures describe, in pounds, shillings, and pence, the degrees of man's departure from love, from wisdom, from power. The idle are as unhappy as the busy. Whether the dread factory-bell, or the fox-hunter's horn calls to a pursuit more fatal to man's best interests, is an inquiry which appears more likely to terminate in the cessation of both, than in...
Página 162 - There can be no doubt that the Government is bound by the duty which it owes to the community entrusted to its care to assist by every means in its power — and those means are very extensive — the excellent Meteorological Society, whose transactions are recorded in the volumes of the Meteorological Society.
Página 111 - Marriage and the cares of a family are their'destination ; the laws, the customs, education, permit woman only to form her social position by marriage. Unmarried, she is solitary, dependent, and subject to perpetual humiliations. And yet, though society offers to woman marriage as her exclusive destiny, that they are educated for this one end, taught to consider it a duty, and that their happiness is dependent upon it, marriage is not in their own power. Men who have a profession, independence, and...
Página 10 - ... it. No joy or rejoicing in any creature, but from the power and joy of light. No meekness, benevolence, or goodness in angel, man, or any creature, but where light is the Lord of its life. Life itself begins no sooner, rises no higher, has no other glory than as the light begins it and leads it on.
Página 53 - The idea of forming a superior race of men has entered little into schemes of policy. Invention and effort have been expended on matter much more than on mind. Lofty piles have been reared; the earth has groaned under pyramids and palaces. The thought of building up a nobler order of intellect and character has hardly crossed the most adventurous statesman.