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" ... can give back only the mocking answer that after their death all will be beautiful on earth. Do you truly wish to condemn all human beings alive to-day to the sad role of caryatids supporting a floor for others some day to dance on ... or of wretched... "
Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance ... - Page 5
by David C. Engerman - 2004 - 410 pages
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Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary

Edward Acton, Professor of Modern European History Edward Acton - Philosophy - 1979 - 218 pages
...sad role of caryatids, supporting the floor on which others will dance ... or of wretched labourers, up to their knees in mud, dragging a barge filled with some mysterious treasure and with the humble inscription 'Progress in the future' on its flag? Those who are exhausted fall in their tracks, others,...
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Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution: Ideological Polarization in the ...

Jacob Leib Ṭalmôn - Political Science - 1991 - 662 pages
...for others to dance on some day ... or a wretched galley of slaves, up to their knees in mud, pulling a barge filled with some mysterious treasure and with...words 'progress in the future' inscribed on its bows . . . and end that is infinitely remote is not an end, but, if you like, a trap."81 The conclusion...
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Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time

Gary Saul Morson - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 356 pages
...beautiful on earth. Do you truly wish to condemn all human beings alive to-day to the sad role ... of wretched galley slaves, up to their knees in mud, dragging a barge . . . with the humble words "progress in the future" inscribed on its bows? Those who are exhausted...
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Bakhtin in Contexts: Across the Disciplines

Amy Mandelker - Drama - 1995 - 228 pages
...beautiful on earth. Do you truly wish to condemn all human beings alive today to the sad role . . . of wretched galley slaves, up to their knees in mud,...filled with some mysterious treasure and with the words "progress in the future" inscribed on its bows? . . . This alone should serve as a warning to...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

Malcolm V. Jones, Robin Feuer Miller - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 352 pages
...are we working? . . . Do you truly wish to condemn all human beings alive today to the sad role ... of wretched galley slaves, up to their knees in mud, dragging a barge with some mysterious treasure and with the humble words "progress in the future" inscribed on its bows?...
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Vision and Violence

Arthur P. Mendel - Alienation (Social psychology) - 1999 - 364 pages
...than as a means to something else. To sacrifice the present for the future, Herzen believed, meant "to condemn all human beings alive today to the sad...words 'progress in the future' inscribed on its bows." 40 For the ancient Greeks, our "work ethic" world was a world for slaves obliged to suffer alienating...
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The Philosophy of Utopia

Barbara Goodwin - Political Science - 2001 - 276 pages
...some day to dance on ... or of wretched galley slaves, up to their knees in mud, dragging a barge ... with the humble words "progress in the future" inscribed on its bows?' (Herzen, 1979, pp. 36-7.) lf Herzen ultimately veers to the opposite extreme from Mortis by embracing an ideal...
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Ingenor, Volumes 1-8

Engineering - 1966 - 484 pages
...than as a means to something else. To sacrifice the present for the future, Herzen believed, meant "to condemn all human beings alive today to the sad...words 'progress in the future' inscribed on its bows." There are any number of reasons to explain how today's rebellious youth reached this awareness, how...
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