- •An Englishman Looks at the World
- •I do not think that the arrival of m. Blйriot means a panic resort to
- •Imminent. We ancient survivors of those who believed in and wrote about
- •In immediate contact with his occupation, because the only way for him
- •Immediate future will, I am convinced, be very largely the history of
- •Inundation of loyalty. The most elaborately conceived, the most stately
- •Is to be no rфle of almost indifferent abstinence from the broad
- •Into a secondary position among the peoples of the world?
- •In blood and bitterness the obvious fact that barbed wire had its
- •Irksome thoroughness, could oblige Canada to remain in the Empire if the
- •In an open drawer in my bureau there lies before me now a crumpled card
- •It meridianally. Obviously its main routes and trades and relations lie
- •In the end it will be lost, I fear, by the intellectual inertness of
- •In the unfolding record of behaviour it is the stewardesses and bandsmen
- •Indiscipline. And the remedy in the first place lies not in social
- •It prevents their settlement, and leads to their renewal. I have tried
- •If those old class reliances on which our system is based are to be
- •Is absolutely antagonistic to the creative impulses of the constructive
- •Independent representative man at a hopeless disadvantage against the
- •In the preceding pages I have discussed certain aspects of the present
- •Is the need of getting a living. But that is not the complete answer.
- •Illiterate, incurious; he read nothing, lived his own life, and if he
- •In the place of that old convenient labour comes a new sort of labour,
- •Is over, but of establishing a new method of co-operation with those who
- •If we are to meet these enlarged requirements upon which the insurgent
- •It is indeed no disaster, but a matter for sincere congratulation that
- •Impossible upon any basis of weekly wages and intermittent employment;
- •Imperceptible increments into a method of salary and pension--for it is
- •View. The employer's concern with the man who does his work is day-long
- •It hard to see how we can reconcile the intermittency of competitive
- •Immense opportunity for voluntary effort. Deference to our official
- •Its serving, as the means and instrument of that national conference
- •1800! "No current politics," whispers the schoolmaster, "no
- •Is exactly what everybody seems to be doing in our present discussion
- •It is merely a gust of abuse and insult for schools, and more
- •Insistence upon creative power than has been shown in the past, but for
- •Impatient of the large constructive developments of modern Socialism,
- •In order to do so it has been convenient to coin two expressions, and to
- •Individuals, and the individuals are grouped in generally monogamic
- •Intensive culture. There may be an adjacent Wild supplying wood, and
- •Intermarries within its limits.
- •It at a page where the surplus forces appear to be in more or less
- •Inevitable social basis. If that is so, then the new ways of living may
- •Innovation and to give a direction and guidance to all of us who
- •Intelligent democratic statecraft from the economic aggressions of large
- •In his repudiation of and antagonism to plans and arrangements, in his
- •Imperialist, and so do the American civic and social reformers. Under
- •Influence outside the socialist ranks altogether. Few wealthy people
- •Its huge development of expropriated labour, and the schemes of the
- •Is already food, shelter, and clothing of a sort for everyone, in spite
- •Intelligent science of economics should afford standards and
- •Vindictiveness for construction. Supremely important is it to keep
- •Impart it. And our Empire is at a peculiar disadvantage in the matter,
- •In the present armament competition there are certain considerations
- •I want to suggest that we are spending too much money in the former and
- •Industrious increase of men of the officer-aviator type, of the
- •India resuming its former central position in our ideas of international
- •Impulses making life sweet. He wants romance without its defiance, and
- •It is a merit in a hunter to refuse even the highest of fences. Nearly
- •Is reflected upon the novel from a difference in the general way of
- •Intellectual revolution amidst which we are living to-day, that
- •Very like the crumplings and separations and complications of an immense
- •Is by comparison irresponsible and free. Because its characters are
- •I am now about to make for an absolutely free hand for the novelist in
- •Indeed, is why I am giving them this library."
- •Visitors who would have the power to examine qualifications, endorse the
- •It has been one of the less possible dreams of my life to be a painted
- •In charge of the expert, that wonderful last gift of time. He will talk
- •In a very obvious way, sociology seemed to Comte to crown the edifice of
- •Incorrect one is infinitely more convenient.
- •Individuality as pieces of cloud; they come, they go, they fuse and
- •If this contention is sound, if therefore we boldly set aside Comte and
- •Is no such thing in sociology as dispassionately considering what _is_,
- •Is not an eternal bond, but a bond we may break on this account or that,
- •In discussing what the common experience confutes Neither is it
- •Infidelity leading to supposititious children in the case of the wife,
- •Is a nastiness, a stream of social contagion and an extreme cruelty, and
- •Is difficult to avoid agreeing with him either in his observation or in
- •Interest an intelligent adolescent. At the approach of all such things
- •In our modern world. So long as they remain "unencumbered" they can
- •Income tax there would be no social injustice whatever in such an
- •Increase the inducement until it sufficed.
- •Instead of his being a private adventurer, he were a member of a sanely
- •Is the specialist available; there are no properly organised information
- •If one looks into the conditions of industrial employment specialisation
- •In no way is this disappearance of specialisation more marked than in
- •Is there a people?
- •Is entirely made up of the individuals that compose it, and that the
- •In Great Britain and France is particularly remarkable. These people
- •India and South Africa which will, if they are not arrested, end in our
- •Instead of this arrangement, your community is divided into twelve
- •Voters who would have voted for a if they had a chance vote instead for
- •I trust the reader will bear with me through these alphabetical
- •I had the slightest confidence. Commonly my choice of a "representative"
- •Impossible nearly every way of forcing candidates upon constituencies,
- •I imagined in my last paper, a constituency in which candidates
- •Is at bottom a foolish thing, and that electoral methods are to pacify
- •Individualised figures; and at the end they would be only half a dozen
- •It will be a much smaller part in the new than in the old. It is like
- •1840 Has, with the exception of the East European Jews, consisted of
- •If we compare any European nation with the American, we perceive at once
- •It followed the normal development of the middle class under Progress
- •Is, in fact, in process of destroying the realities of freedom and
- •Is a very distinguished man, quite over and above the fact that he is
- •In due course the graveyard rat will gnaw as calmly at
- •In jail. Because out of place, they are a danger. A sorry
- •In the making of very rich men there is always a factor of good fortune
- •Is true that so far American Socialism has very largely taken an
- •Is of an immense general discontent in the working class and of a
- •Violence, taking some other title and far more destructive methods. This
- •Irresistible movement for secession between west and east. That is
- •View of the possible mediatory action of the universities, for
- •In Sec. 5 I enumerated what I called the silent factors in the American
- •Increase had the birth-rate of the opening of the century been
- •Individualist element in the citizen, stands over against and resists
- •Is in New York that one meets the people who matter, and the New York
- •Voices, perplexed as to what they must do, uncertain as to what they may
- •Into the daily papers. At every point there will be economies and
- •It is in quite other directions that the scientific achievements to
- •Interests which legitimately belongs to it.
- •Indigestion as the case may be. No one would be so careless and ignorant
- •It is not only that an amplifying science may give mankind happier
- •Its original circumstances, fitting itself to novel needs, leaving the
- •Invented the plough and the ship, and subjugated most of the domestic
- •It would seem to him a phase of unprecedented swift change and expansion
It is not only that an amplifying science may give mankind happier
bodies and far more active and eventful lives, but that psychology and
educational and social science, reinforcing literature and working
through literature and art, may dare to establish serenities in his
soul. For surely no one who has lived, no one who has watched sin and
crime and punishment, but must have come to realise the enormous amount
of misbehaviour that is mere ignorance and want of mental scope. For my
own part I have never believed in the devil. And it may be a greater
undertaking but no more impossible to make ways to goodwill and a good
heart in men than it is to tunnel mountains and dyke back the sea. The
way that led from the darkness of the cave to the electric light is the
way that will lead to light in the souls of men, that is to say, the way
of free and fearless thinking, free and fearless experiment, organised
exchange of thoughts and results, and patience and persistence and a
sort of intellectual civility.
And with the development of philosophical and scientific method that
will go on with this great increase in man's control over himself,
another issue that is now a mere pious aspiration above abysses of
ignorance and difficulty, will come to be a manageable matter. It has
been the perpetual wonder of philosophers from Plato onward that men
have bred their dogs and horses and left any man or woman, however vile,
free to bear offspring in the next generation of men. Still that goes
on. Beautiful and wonderful people die childless and bury their treasure
in the grave, and we rest content with a system of matrimony that seems
designed to perpetuate mediocrity. A day will come when men will be in
possession of knowledge and opportunity that will enable them to master
this position, and then certainly will it be assured that every
generation shall be born better than was the one before it. And with
that the history of humanity will enter upon a new phase, a phase which
will be to our lives as daylight is to the dreaming of a child as yet
unborn.
THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
Alone among all the living things this globe has borne, man reckons with
destiny. All other living things obey the forces that created them; and
when the mood of the power changes, submit themselves passively to
extinction Man only looks upon those forces in the face, anticipates the
exhaustion of Nature's kindliness, seeks weapons to defend himself. Last
of the children of Saturn, he escapes their general doom. He
dispossesses his begetter of all possibility of replacement, and grasps
the sceptre of the world. Before man the great and prevalent creatures
followed one another processionally to extinction; the early monsters of
the ancient seas, the clumsy amphibians struggling breathless to the
land, the reptiles, the theriomorpha and the dinosaurs, the bat-winged
reptiles of the Mesozoic forests, the colossal grotesque first mammals,
the giant sloths, the mastodons and mammoths; it is as if some idle
dreamer moulded them and broke them and cast them aside, until at last
comes man and seizes the creative wrist that would wipe him out of being
again.
There is nothing else in all the world that so turns against the powers
that have made it, unless it be man's follower fire. But fire is
witless; a little stream, a changing breeze can stop it. Man
circumvents. If fire were human it would build boats across the rivers
and outmanoeuvre the wind. It would lie in wait in sheltered places,
smouldering, husbanding its fuel until the grass was yellow and the
forests sere. But fire is a mere creature of man's; our world before his
coming knew nothing of it in any of its habitable places, never saw it
except in the lightning flash or remotely on some volcanic coronet. Man
brought it into the commerce of life, a shining, resentful slave, to
hound off the startled beasts from his sleeping-place and serve him like
a dog.
Suppose that some enduring intelligence watched through the ages the
successions of life upon this planet, marked the spreading first of this
species and then that, the conflicts, the adaptations, the
predominances, the dyings away, and conceive how it would have witnessed
this strange dramatic emergence of a rare great ape to manhood. To such
a mind the creature would have seemed at first no more than one of
several varieties of clambering frugivorous mammals, a little
distinguished by a disposition to help his clumsy walking with a stake
and reinforce his fist with a stone. The foreground of the picture would
have been filled by the rhinoceros and mammoth, the great herds of
ruminants, the sabre-toothed lion and the big bears. Then presently the
observer would have noted a peculiar increasing handiness about the
obscurer type, an unwonted intelligence growing behind its eyes. He
would have perceived a disposition in this creature no beast had shown
before, a disposition to make itself independent of the conditions of
climate and the chances of the seasons. Did shelter fail among the trees
and rocks, this curious new thing-began to make itself harbours of its
own; was food irregular, it multiplied food. It began to spread out from