 I am inclined to think that my author was right; that the real end which Americans set before themselves is Acceleration. To be always moving, and always moving faster, that they think is the beatific life; and with their happy detachment from philosophy...  The Free Man and the Soldier - 188. oldalszerző: Ralph Barton Perry - 1916 - 235 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1914 - 1066 oldal
...least to see just what it means. Consider for a moment the verdict of one of our harshest critics, Mr. Lowes Dickinson of Cambridge University. 'I am inclined...Why, they reply, you go fast! And what more can be said?' Now no doubt this is a libel upon the American people, and might justly be resented. Or it might... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - 1905 - 182 oldal
...think is the beatific life; and with their happy detachment from philosophy and speculation, [104] they are not troubled by the question, Whither? If...Why, they reply, you go fast! And what more can be said ? Hence, their contempt for the leisure so much valued by Europeans. Leisure they feel, to be... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - 1907 - 180 oldal
...On such a point I speak with great diffidence; but I am inclined to think that my author was right; that the real end which Americans set before themselves...Why, they reply, you go fast! And what more can be said? Hence, their contempt for the leisure so much valued by Europeans. Leisure they feel, to be a... | |
 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - 1913 - 778 oldal
...they think is the beatific life; and with happy detachment from philosophy and speculation, they я re not troubled by the question, Whither? If they are...Why, they reply, you go fast ! And what more can be said?" What is our library ideal? Is it not coming to be this so-called American ideal of acceleration?... | |
 | 1914 - 878 oldal
...least to see just what it means. Consider for a moment the verdict of one of our harshest critics, Mr. Lowes Dickinson of Cambridge University. 'I am inclined...Why, they reply, you go fast! And what more can be said?' Now no doubt this is a libel upon the American people, and might justly be resented. Or it might... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Willard Higley Durham - 1917 - 386 oldal
...On such a point I speak with great diffidence ; but I am inclined to think that my author was right; that the real end which Americans set before themselves...Why, they reply, you go fast! And what more can be said ? Hence, their contempt for the leisure so much valued by Europeans. Leisure they feel to be a... | |
 | 1920 - 512 oldal
...Europeans, as they sometimes are, what is the point of going so fast? their only feeling is one-of genuine astonishment. Why, they reply, you go fast! And what more can be said? Hence, their contempt for the leisure so much valued by Europeans. Leisure they feel, to be a... | |
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