 Nothing is more striking than to compare the progress of civil conveniences which has been left almost entirely to the trader, to the progress in military apparatus during the last few decades. The house-appliances of today, for example, are little better...  Miscellaneous Pamphlets - Page 19by William James - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Kindergarten - 1910 - 392 pages
...irregular endowment of research by commercialism, its little shortsighted sna4 " 's at profit by'innovation and scientific economy, see how remarkable is the...inferior to those we possess; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things." Wells adds that he thinks that... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Belief and doubt - 1908 - 332 pages
...little better than they were fifty years ago. A house of to-day is still almost as ill- ventilated, badly heated by wasteful fires, clumsily arranged...inferior to those we possess; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things. § I? WAR AND COMPETITION. —... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Belief and doubt - 1908 - 330 pages
...satisfactory places of residence, so little have our standards risen. But the rifle 216 First and Last Things or battleship of fifty years ago was beyond all comparison...inferior to those we possess; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things. §17 WAR AND COMPETITION. —... | |
 | William James - Philosophy - 1910 - 32 pages
...henceforward is to inflame the civic temper as past history has inflamed the military 18 temper. HG \Yells, as usual, sees the centre of the situation. "In many...those we possess; in power, in speed, in conveni19 I enee alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things." * Wells adds ** that he thinks that... | |
 | William James - Philosophy - 1911 - 446 pages
...least a man is supposed to win promotion by self-forgetfulness and not by self-seeking. And beside 293, the feeble and irregular endowment of research by...inferior to those we possess; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things."1 1 "First and Last Things,"... | |
 | Peace - 1911 - 564 pages
...still almost as ill-ventilated, badly heated, clumsily arranged and furnished as the house of 1858, but the rifle or battleship of fifty years ago was...inferior to those we possess, in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things." Even the professional soldiers... | |
 | Science - 1914 - 636 pages
...trained for better services. Here at least a man is supposed to win promotion by self-forgetful ness, and not by self-seeking. And beside the feeble and...inferior to those we possess; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things." 1 Wells adds2 that he thinks... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - Literary Collections - 1913 - 556 pages
...the trader, to the progress in military apparatus during the last few decades. The house appliances of to-day, for example, are little better than they...inferior to those we possess ; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things." l Wells adds 2 that he thinks... | |
 | Norman Foerster - Education, Higher - 1915 - 406 pages
...higher social plane, into an atmosphere of service and co-operation and of infinitely more honorable emulations. Here at least men are not flung out of...inferior to those we possess ; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things." 1 Wells adds 2 that he thinks... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Willard Higley Durham - Authorship - 1917 - 386 pages
...thing needed henceforward is to inflame the civic temper as past history has inflamed the military temper. HG Wells, as usual, sees the centre of the...inferior to those we possess ; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things." * Wells adds 2 that he thinks... | |
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