As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the seco...nd on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; ... />An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air-- You big black boundin' beggar--for you broke a British square!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are four classes of idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names--calling the first ...class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travel...ling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons d...ining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by,... "Let us," said He, "pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white...-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fou...rth-class love-stories for the spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »