 In this system their life has to be carried forward ; yet they have a sense that this system is not of their own creation, that it by no means corresponds exactly with the wants of their actual life, that for them it is customary, not rational. The awakening...  Essays and Lectures on Social and Political Subjects - Page 206by Henry Fawcett, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1872 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1871 - 442 pages
...present will contain all of the past which is vital and of permanent value. Matthew Arnold says, " Modern times find themselves with an immense system...sense that this system is not of their own creation, and that it by no means corresponds with the wants of their actual life; that for them it is customary,... | |
 | Heinrich Heine - 1873 - 220 pages
...Modern times find themselves with an itn mense system of institutions, established facts, accred ited dogmas, customs, rules, which have come to them from times not modern. In this system their fife has to be carried forward, yet they have a sense that this system is not of their own creation,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 354 pages
...Christianity and tke Antoi-.KCS , . . =94 Immortality, ... 330 I. LITERATURE. B THE MODERN SPIRIT. MODERN times find themselves with an immense system...their life has to be carried forward ; yet they have s sense tha1' this system is not of their own creation, that it by no means corresponds exactly with... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1909 - 406 pages
...in general, and to the young German poets in particular, I should say I had been their Liberator." Modern times find themselves with an immense system...In this system their life has to be carried forward ; _y,etthey have a sense that this system is not of their own creatioT57 that it by no means,.£S2cS5E!R^»-... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 502 pages
...in general, and to the young German poets in particular, I should say I had been their liberator.' Modern times find themselves with an immense system...institutions, established facts, accredited dogmas, cus- 20 toms, rules, which have come to them from times not modern. In this system their life has to... | |
 | Hongming Gu - 1915 - 218 pages
...Europe, a fearful conflict between the heart and the head. The Chinese people in Confucius's time found themselves with an immense system of institutions, established facts, accredited dogmas, customs, laws — in fact, an immense system of society and civilization! which had come down to them from their... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 pages
...Germans in general, and to the young German poets m particular, 1 should say I had been their liberator." Modern times find themselves with an immense system...them from times not modern. In this system their life lias to be 25 arried forward, yet they have a sense that this system is not of their wn creation, that... | |
 | Julia Emily Johnsen - 1928 - 470 pages
...Europe, a fearful conflict between the heart and the head. The Chinese people in Confucius's time found themselves with an immense system of institutions, established facts, accredited dogmas, customs, laws — in fact an immense system of society and civilisation which had come down to them from their... | |
 | 1986 - 668 pages
...world" (X: 274). "Modern times," Arnold similarly concludes in the "Heinrich Heine" lecture (1863), "find themselves with an immense system of institutions,...rules, which have come to them from times not modern." What is disconcerting to moderns conscious of this inheritance is the "sense that this system is not... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 1991 - 350 pages
...culture and our life within that culture, until all seems artificial and sham. "Modern times," he says, find themselves with an immense system of institutions, established facts, accredited dogmas, rules, which have come to them from times not modern. In this system their life has to be carried forward;... | |
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