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" ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. "
Fraser's Magazine - Page 342
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Progress and Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

Barbara Ann Suess - Drama - 2003 - 218 pages
...and fundamental truths of Nature and the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to...come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tendet conscience. (193-94) For Huxley, the well-educated person is predictable and stable, more well-oiled...
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Pushing to the Front

Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 461 pages
...who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to heed a strong will, the servant of a tender conscience ; who has...hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself." The world wants a man who is educated all over; whose nerves are brought to their acutest sensibility;...
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Growing with the Grain: Dynamic Families Shaping History from Ancient Times ...

Patricia A. Emison - Biography - 2005 - 344 pages
...an age of great and exciting science. A liberal education he defined as one that produced a person "who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature...hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself." When his wife encouraged him to investigate the family history, he told her that his genealogical interests...
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Babel and the Ivory Tower: The Scholar in the Age of Science

William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - Philosophy - 2005 - 316 pages
...her operation.' Though he is 'full of life and fire' and 'no stunted ascetic,' his passions are also 'trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience' (3:86). It is clear in such a passage that Huxley the scientist, 'whose intellect is a clear cold logic...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to...hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING This is a traditional folk song, usually described as Scottish in origin, but...
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Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 289 pages
...of Nature and of the laws of her operations ; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and ire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by...hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself." When Huxley paid Ms only visit to the "United States he was greatly attracted by the many tugboats...
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Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society ...

Heather Munro Prescott - College students - 2007 - 266 pages
...claimed that the product of a liberal education should be a man who is "no stunted ascetic" but "is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness,...
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McGraw-Hill's PRAXIS I and II, 2nd Ed.

Laurie Rozakis - Study Aids - 2007 - 434 pages
...is stored with the great and fundamental truths of nature and the laws of her oper(10) ations; one whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; one who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect...
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Back To Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution

John B. Cobb - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 449 pages
...foundation.2 Huxley might rhapsodize about the liberally educated man as "one who is full of life and fire, whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous...hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself," but where was there place for these moral and aesthetic intuitions in Huxley's "web and woof of matter...
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