| James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...be called the mechanical age. It is the age which, with its whole might, teaches and practises the art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and contrivance. For the simplest operation, some help is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are all... | |
| Theology - 1836 - 424 pages
...several years ago, spoke of the tendency of the age to this mode of action as follows : " It is an age of machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word. Nothing is now done directly or by hand. All is by rule and calculated contrivance. Old modes of exertion... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...not an heroical, devotional, fhilosophical, or moral age, but above all others, the mechanical age. t is the age of machinery in every outward and inward sense of the word.' — Miscellan. vol. ii. p. 146. ' It is admitted, on all sides, that the metaphysical and... | |
| 1843 - 1068 pages
...not an heroica!, devotional, philosophical, or moral age; but above all others, the mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that term; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises, the great art... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. fit is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that wordji the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises the great art... | |
| Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in' every outward and...forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance.... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward...age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, leaches, and prac:ises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by... | |
| Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 460 pages
...mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word ; the ago which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches...practises, the great art of adapting means to ends. On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make room for a speedier, an inanimate... | |
| Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 450 pages
...not an heroical, devotional, philosophical, or moral age, but, above all others, the mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word ; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practises, the great... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. ached the adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance.... | |
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