The Art of History: Two Lectures: The Old History and the New |
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Page 32 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Page 34 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Page 32 - ... if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Page 17 - It is profoundly in the English tradition of humane science — in that tradition of Scotch and English thought, in which there has been, I think, an extraordinary continuity of feeling, if I may so express it, from the eighteenth century to the present time — the tradition which is suggested by the names of Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Paley, Bentham, Darwin, and Mill, a tradition marked by a love of truth and a most noble lucidity, by a prosaic sanity free from sentiment or metaphysic, and by an...
Page 32 - I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Page 24 - Estas Provincias desean pertenecer a la Gran Bretaña, recibir sus leyes, obedecer a su Gobierno y vivir bajo su influjo poderoso. Ellas se abandonan sin condición alguna a la generosidad y buena fe del pueblo inglés, y yo estoy dispuesto a sostener tan justa solicitud para librarlas de los males que las afligen.
Page 27 - How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service' (Charles Darwin, 18th September 1861).
Page 5 - The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic' and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.
Page 12 - I am bound to reply that almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answers.