First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and a Rule of LifeG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 307 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
abstinence Ally Sloper altogether aspect beautiful become believe blood body brotherhood Canterbury Cathedral Catholic Church Christ Christian civilisation collective common conception conduct confess conflict conscious desire discipline discussion duty economic emotions essential existing experience expression faith feel G. K. Chesterton G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Gustave le Bon hate Herbert Spencer honour human idea individual intellectual interest less living marriage matter ment mental metaphysical method mind Modern Utopia moral motives nature ness one's oneself organisation ourselves passion phase pontifex maximus possible practical present pride purpose realise religion religious rule Salvation samurai scheme seek seems sense sexual social Socialist sort species spirit synthesis synthetic things thought tion tism to-day true understand universal utmost Whitefield's Tabernacle whole woman women word world of fact Worlds for Old
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 215 - The house-appliances of today, for example, are little better than they were fifty years ago. A house of today is still almost as ill-ventilated, badly heated by wasteful fires, clumsily arranged and furnished as the house of 1858. Houses a couple of hundred years old are still satisfactory places of residence, so little have our standards risen.
الصفحة 226 - Wells adds that he thinks that the conceptions of order and discipline, the tradition of service and devotion, of physical fitness, unstinted exertion, and universal responsibility, which universal military duty is now teaching European nations, will remain a permanent acquisition when the last ammunition has been used in the fireworks that celebrate the final peace. I believe as he does. It would be simply...
الصفحة 26 - But collect individual instances; think of arm-chairs and reading-chairs and dining-room chairs, and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into benches, chairs that cross the boundary and become settees, dentist's chairs, thrones, opera stalls, seats of all sorts, those miraculous fungoid growths that cumber the floor of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition, and you will perceive what a lax bundle in fact is this simple straightforward term.
الصفحة 148 - A second principle, and one which requires emphasis as a necessary complement to any policy of full participation, is that we are forced to act in the world as it is, and not in the world as we wish it were, or as we would like it to become.
الصفحة 183 - ... helps. They must not go by beaten ways or wherever there are inhabited houses, but into the bare, quiet places of the globe — the regions set apart for them. This discipline, my double said, was invented to secure a certain stoutness of heart and body in the members of the order, which otherwise might have lain open to too many timorous, merely abstemious, men and women. Many things had been suggested, swordplay and tests that verged on torture, climbing in giddy places and the like, before...
الصفحة 241 - Lincoln's well-known dictum that "you can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
الصفحة 69 - At times in the silence of the night and in rare lonely moments, I come upon a sort of communion of myself and something great that is not myself.
الصفحة 215 - ... emulations. Here at least men are not flung out of employment to degenerate because there is no immediate work for them to do. They are fed and drilled and trained for better services. Here at least a man is supposed to win promotion by self-forgetfulness and not by self-seeking. And beside the feeble and irregular endowment of research by commercialism, its little short-sighted snatches at profit by innovation and scientific economy, see how remarkable is the steady and rapid development of...
الصفحة 307 - In the ultimate I know, though I cannot prove my knowledge in any way whatever, that everything is right and all things mine.
الصفحة 95 - I see myself in life as part of a great physical being that strains and I believe grows towards beauty, and of a great mental being that strains and I believe grows towards knowledge and power. In this persuasion that I am a gatherer of experience, a mere tentacle that arranges thought beside thought for this being of the species, this being that grows beautiful and powerful, in this persuasion I find the ruling idea of which I stand in need, the ruling idea that reconciles and adjudicates among...