Modern Paradise: An Outline Or Story of how Some of the Cultured People Will Probably Live, Work and Organize in the Near Future |
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Modern Paradise: An Outline Or Story of How Some of the Cultured People Will ... Henry Olerich No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 7 - I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
Page 7 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Vet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 7 - The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Page 9 - ... delay of sexual maturity; and in §§ 366, 367, the evidence went to show that where exceptional fertility exists there is sluggishness of mind, and that where there has been during education excessive expenditure in mental action, there frequently follows a complete or partial infertility. Hence the particular kind of further evolution which Man is hereafter to undergo, is one which, more than any other, may be expected to cause a decline in his power of reproduction.
Page 9 - As all men desire their own happiness, praise or blame is bestowed on actions and motives, according as they lead to this end ; and as happiness is an essential part of the general good, the greatest-happiness principle indirectly serves as a nearly safe standard of right and wrong.
Page 172 - Prevision is the characteristic and the test of knowledge." That is what the astronomer does when he predicts eclipses ; the electrician when he...
Page 135 - States and this age, she could tell the parts of speech, and classify sentences according to use and form, and in an indexed geography, she could turn to any prominent country and capital in the world in a few seconds of time.
Page 132 - ... could name and point to almost all the visible bones of the human skeleton as shown on a physiological chart, and was familiar with all the United States money, except bills over $100.
Page 131 - dissected" map having no printed matter on it. She also knew the portraits and could give the names of more than a hundred famous men and women of the world.
Page 7 - Pood should be to the body only what coal is to the boiler of a steam engine.