 That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 3421868Full view - About this book
 | 1915 - 766 pages
...of a villanelle. His mind, to use the famous words of Huxley, "is a clear, cold, logic engine, ready to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind." What else can you say about a man whose favorite game is football and whose favorite poem is Endymion;... | |
 | Kenneth George Wilson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 508 pages
...whether it is Thomas Huxley's description of the intellect of the liberally educated person, which can "spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind"; or Abraham Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, for the people." bald, balding (adjs.)... | |
 | Lori Anne Loeb - History - 1994 - 237 pages
...his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of, whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all...order, ready like a steam engine, to be turned to try any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind.63 The ideal... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1997 - 398 pages
...his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of: whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all...the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who,... | |
 | Mahatma Gandhi - History - 1997 - 290 pages
...of his will and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine with all...parts of equal strength and in smooth working order . . . whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the fundamental truths of nature . . . whose passions... | |
 | Paul Lawrence Farber - Philosophy - 1994 - 228 pages
...him, such an education was one that made wide use of science and that resulted in an intellect that "is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts...the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations." 8 Although... | |
 | Joan Davenport Carris - SAT (Educational test) - 2003 - 501 pages
...pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic 85 engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and...the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowl90 edge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one... | |
 | Barbara Ann Suess - Drama - 2003 - 218 pages
...Huxley, who yearned to invest humanity with the rather robotic character of "a clear, cold, logic[al] engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order" (193). Yeats represents Huxley's masculinist ideal in the play by having almost every character advocate... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - Philosophy - 2005 - 316 pages
...by the metaphors of Huxley the rhetorician. If his mind is best described by a technological model, 'ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work' (3:86), we should not be surprised if the work to which it turns is scientific, since scientific technology... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all...the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who,... | |
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