Carlyle and Mill: Mystic and Utilitarian, Volume 38Columbia University Press, 1924 - 334 pages |
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Page 73 - The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is— what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.
Page 283 - I then said, that the fraction of life can be increased in value, not so much by increasing your numerator, as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceive me, unity itself divided by zero will give infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero, then ; thou hast the world under thy feet. Well did the wisest of our time write : ' It is only with renunciation (Entsagen*) that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.
Page 264 - ... the largest portions to those who have never worked at all, the next largest to those whose work is almost nominal, and so in a descending scale, the remuneration dwindling as the work grows harder and more disagreeable, until the most fatiguing and exhausting bodily labour cannot count with certainty on being able to earn even the necessaries of life; if this or Communism were the alternative, all the difficulties, great or small, of Communism would be but as dust in the balance.
Page 315 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 309 - ... happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
Page 143 - ... which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our pert loquacity.
Page 313 - In sober truth, nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to one another, are Nature's everyday performances.
Page 180 - I am rather below than above par; what I could do could assuredly be done by any boy or girl of average capacity and healthy physical constitution; and if I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed upon me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.
Page 190 - Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes' oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker. The lines in Coleridge's Dejection — I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case: A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief. Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.
Page 283 - With Stupidity and sound digestion man may front much. But what, in these dull unimaginative days are the terrors of Conscience to the diseases of the Liver! Not on Morality, but on Cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his Elect!
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| Title | Carlyle and Mill: Mystic and Utilitarian, Volume 38 Carlyle and Mill: Mystic and Utilitarian, Emery Edward Neff Issue 79 of Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature Issue 79 of Studies in English & comparative literature, Columbia University |
| Author | Emery Edward Neff |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press, 1924 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 3, 2006 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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