...success; and love was only a short mo-) ment of forgetfulness, a short intoxication, whose de-^ light one remembered with a sense of sadness, as if it(..., more soulless than any tyrant, more pitiless and auto-/ cratic than the worst Government; ready to crush innumerable lives in the expansion of its greatness....

...concession has to fight for its life with such weapons as can be found in the mire of universal corruption. "There was something inherent in the necessities of...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea." Eventually the Gould forces are triumphant and a civilization is established, dominated by those whose...

...survivors, we cannot but shrink away from inflexible extremes, whether of victory or defeat. 5 Nostromo There was something inherent in the necessities of...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea. I Mrs Gould in Nostromo, p. 521 With Nostromo and The Secret Agent we reach the summit of Conrad's...

...in the Treasure House of the World." Both have the moral intensity of quietism. Emilia Gould thinks: "There was something inherent in the necessities of...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea" (III, 11). The alternatives to the process are either unsuccessful action or none at all. There may...

...worst. Emilia lives on with the burden. Knowledge marks Emilia's behavior. "There was," she thinks, "something inherent in the necessities of successful...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea" (p. 427). This echoes Conrad's nonfictional writing as well as Decoud. Whereas Dorothea infects Ladislaw...

...can from the corruption of Kurtz's idealism. In Nostromo Emilia Gould will be forced to conclude that "there was something inherent in the necessities of...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea" (N521). The words, of course, could be cited as a summary of Kurtz's decline. As for Marlow, the possible...

...short intoxication, whose delight one remembered with a sense of sadness, as if it had been a great grief lived through. There was something inherent...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea ... An immense desolation, the dread of her own continued life descended upon the first lady of Sulaco....

...admitted slowly. The mine appears once more in the pictorial sense at the end of the novel, as Mrs. Gould "saw the San Tome mountain hanging over the Campo, over the whole land." (582). One is tempted to add, hanging like that water-color sketch in Casa Gould. Seeing or not seeing...

...of the material interests to which he had pinned his faith in the triumph of order and justice ... He was perfect - perfect. What more could she have...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea. (427) Charles Gould appears, at first, the very type described by Weber in "Protestant Asceticism and...

...for action. It creates the necessary and eternal Conradian irony defined by Emilia Gould in Nostromo: "There was something inherent in the necessities of...carried with it the moral degradation of the idea" (431). This corrosive irony makes it possible for Marlow to defend his lie to the Intended. Because...