In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue ...is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognised that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self- government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeable... emotional state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children belong in families, which, ideally, serve as a sanctuary and a cushion from the world at large. Parents belong to society... and are a part of that greater world. Sometimes parents are a channel to the larger society, sometimes they are a shield from it. Ideally they act as filters, guiding their children and teaching them to avoid the tempting trash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet when the houre of thy designe To answer these fine things shall come,... Speak not at large, say, I am thine; And then they have their answer home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside d...ifferences.... Social feminists [in Europe] ... believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am blackly bored when they are at large & at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway &... we are deprived of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kids are fascinated by stories about what they were like when they were babies and what they said and did as they grew. This sense... of history and connectedness increases your children's feelings of security and safety, and helps them build the ability to make healthy connections in the world at large.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and aff...ronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »