It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men--broken into small fragments... and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town... steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. There beneath you is the monster, stretching acre upon acre into the far distance. High over head hangs the stagnant pall of its fetid breath, reddened with light from myriad eyes endlessly, everywhere blinking. Thousands of acres of cellular tissue, the city's flesh outspreads layer upon layer, enmeshed by an intricate network of veins and arteries radiating into the gloom, and in them, with muffled, persistent roar, circulating as the blood circulates in your veins, is the almost ceaseless beat of the activity to whose necessities it all conforms. The poisonous waste is drawn from the system of this gigantic creature by infinitely ramifying, thread-like ducts, gathering at their sensitive terminals matter destructive of its life, hurrying it to millions of small intestines to be collected in turn by larger, flowing to the great sewers, on to the drainage canal, and finally to the ocean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; what... we object to is his crucifying his wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the ...head of mortal man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister a...t the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is held to be no surer test of civilisation than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcoho...l and tobacco are recognisable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilisation altogether.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, "I want none of your good boys,Mgive me ...the bad ones." And this is the reason, I suppose, why, as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared, and think they are going to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »