What is Man? and Other EssaysHarper & brother, 1917 - 375 páginas The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine and nothing more. |
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Página 190 - For forty years his English has been to me a continual delight and astonishment. In the sustained exhibition of certain great qualities— clearness, compression, verbal exactness, and unforced and seemingly unconscious felicity of phrasing— he is, in my belief, without his peer in the English-writing world. Sustained. I intrench myself behind that protecting word.
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Página 194 - Macaulay, that Machiavelli was in earnest, but must not be judged as a political moralist of our time and race would be judged. He thinks that Machiavelli was in earnest, as none but an idealist can be, and he is the first to imagine him an idealist immersed in realities, who involuntarily transmutes the events under his eye into something like the visionary issues of reverie.