The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimon...y to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetti...ng and accursed principle of action--that the end will sanction any means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them.... The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved m...emory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Destitution is the Muse of her genius,--Destitution and Death. I used to propose that her epitaph should be: "Here lies the angel ...of Death." And wonderfully as she varies and poetically repeats that image in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,--the grandeur of humility and privation, as thus: "The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority. For the love of superior virtue is mine own gift from God."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel like a white granular mass of amorphous crystals--my formula appears to be isomeric with Spasmotoxin. My aurochloride preci...pitates into beautiful prismatic needles. My Platinochloride develops octohedron crystals,--with a fine blue florescence. My physiological action is not indifferent. One millionth of a grain injected under the skin of a frog produced instantaneous death accompanied by an orange blossom odor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all a...ges and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corr...esponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that actio...n and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary,... and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »