There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a... Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard - Page 436by Joseph Conrad - 1904 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| Printing - 1908 - 816 pages
...of the present time, causes one of his characters to give voice to the following admirable truths: There is no peace and rest in the development of material interests. They have their law and their j ustice. But it is founded on expediency and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity... | |
| Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett - Literary Criticism - 1918 - 388 pages
...Concession is preserved* intact to its owner, one whose vision is of the clearest says to Mrs. Gould : " There is no peace and rest in the development of material...their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and it is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only... | |
| Frances Melville Perry - Fiction - 1926 - 270 pages
...their restraint is their liberty, their safeguard from winds and rocks. The doctor in Nostromo says: "There is no peace and rest in the development of...expediency and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle." The steadfastness that Conrad... | |
| American essays - 1917 - 958 pages
...Concession is preserved intact to its owner, one whose vision is of the clearest says to Mrs. Gould, 'There is no peace and rest in the development of...their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and it is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only... | |
| English Association - English literature - 1920 - 156 pages
...sees clear. He tells her that Antonia's friends will have the mine against them to the last, but ' they may raise the country with the new cry of the...justice. But it is founded on expediency and is inhuman. . . . Mrs. Gould, the time approaches when all that the Gould Concession stands for shall weigh as... | |
| W. H. B. Court, William Henry Bassano Court - Business & Economics - 1954 - 388 pages
...Costaguana. He penned these disillusioning words of Dr Monygham to Mrs Gould : ' There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They...and their justice. But it is founded on expediency. . .without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.' His story of... | |
| Norman Sherry - History - 1971 - 484 pages
...Monygham who most firmly and ominously sounds the other side of the theme: 'There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They...force that can be found only in a moral principle.' From several sources Conrad might have found the phrase 'material interests', the theme of economic... | |
| Jacques Berthoud - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 204 pages
...been the only one possible' (p. 370). [My italics.] Hence his final verdict: 'There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They...But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman.' Perhaps what Charles Gould may have failed to understand in his justification for his filial disobedience... | |
| Ian Watt, Ian P. Watt - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 124 pages
...... I thought that we - " ', Monygham crushes her last hope: ' "No! . . . There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They...it is without rectitude, without the continuity and force that can be found only in a moral principle'" (N, 511). Emilia, who has been 'hurt in the most... | |
| Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - Business education - 1994 - 343 pages
...Monghyam points out, the Gould authority becomes a potential force for dis-order: There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They...their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and it is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only... | |
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