The Living Age, Volume 331Living Age Company, 1926 - American periodicals |
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Page 359 - The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and, whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman...
Page 51 - The sounds of England, the tinkle of the hammer on the anvil in the country smithy, the corncrake on a dewy morning, the sound of the scythe against the whetstone, and the sight of a plough team coming over the brow of a hill, the sight that has been seen in England since England was a land, and may be seen in England long after the Empire has perished and every works in England has ceased to function, for centuries the one eternal sight of England.
Page 52 - ... fires: that wood smoke that our ancestors, tens of thousands of years ago, must have caught on the air when they were coming home with the result of the day's forage, when they were still nomads, and when they were still roaming the forests and the plains of the continent of Europe. These things strike down into the very depths of our nature, and touch chords — that go back to the beginning of time and the human race, but they are chords that with every year of our life sound a deeper note...
Page 52 - England has ceased to function, for centuries the one eternal sight of England. The wild anemones in the woods in April, the last load at night of hay being drawn down a lane as the twilight comes on, when you can scarcely distinguish the figures of the horses as they take it home to the farm, and, above all, most subtle, most penetrating and most moving, the smell of wood smoke coming up in an autumn evening, or the smell of the scutch...
Page 502 - ... the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable to gross abuse, but still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of resistance, when fear itself begets a sort of courage...
Page 438 - CUSINS [in a white fury] Do I understand you to imply that you can buy Barbara? UNDERSHAFT. No; but I can buy the Salvation Army. CUSINS. Quite impossible. UNDERSHAFT. You shall see. All religious organizations exist by selling themselves to the rich.
Page 504 - The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable, but it is clear that such attack, owing to its crushing moral effect on a nation, may impress public opinion to the point of disarming the Government and thus become decisive.
Page 51 - To me, England is the country and the country is England. And when I ask myself what I mean by England, when I think of England when I am abroad, England comes to me through my various senses - through the ear, through the eye, and through certain imperishable scents.
Page 44 - The damnable scheme of things which we call existence brings about conditions whereby whole masses suffer who have no cause to suffer, and, on the other hand, whole masses joy who have no cause to joy.
Page 47 - It is not possible to say how a boy of twenty-one should come by such subtle thoughts} but he had." And the subtle thoughts are the following: Here men came down to the basic facts of life — the necessity of self-care and protection. There was no talk, or very little there, of honour. There were rules of conduct which men observed because they had to. So far as he could see, force governed this world — hard, cold force and quickness of brain. If one had force, plenty of it, quickness of wit and...