Query: Whether the difference between a mere computer and a man of science be not, that the one computes on principles clearly con...ceived, and by rules evidently demonstrated, whereas the other doth not?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of ...man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route.... It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit... Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined That our selves know not what it is, Interassured of the mind, Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are caught up Mr. Perry on a great wave whether we will or no, a great wave of expansion and progress. All these mechanical inv...entions--telephones, electricity, steel bridges, horseless vehicles--they are all leading somewhere. It's up to us to be on the inside in the forefront of progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When your fathers fixed the place of GOD, And settled all the inconvenient saints,... Apostles, martyrs, in a kind of Whipsnade, Then they could set about imperial expansion Accompanied by industrial development.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we a...re the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society--which is based on m...yths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement--will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cul...tural imports.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every expansion of government in business means that government in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its ...errors and wrongs is driven irresistibly without peace to greater and greater control of the nation's press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »