 Were. we required to characterize this age of ours by any single' epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in' every outward...  Selections from the Edinburgh Review ... - Page 91edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 424 pages
...several years ago, spoke of the tendency of the age to this mode of action as follows : " It is an age of machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word. Nothing is now done directly or by hand. All is by rule and calculated contrivance. Old modes of exertion... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 pages
...not an heroical, devotional, fhilosophical, or moral age, but above all others, the mechanical age. t is the age of machinery in every outward and inward sense of the word.' — Miscellan. vol. ii. p. 146. ' It is admitted, on all sides, that the metaphysical and... | |
 | 1843 - 1068 pages
...characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, ire should be tempted to call it not an heroica!, devotional, philosophical, or moral age; but above...machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that term; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises, the great art... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. fit is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that wordji the age which, with its... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...characterize this age of ours by any single' epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above...forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance.... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be empted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above...age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, leaches, and prac:ises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 450 pages
...characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an heroical, devotional, philosophical, or moral age, but, above...of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word ; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practises, the great... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 460 pages
...mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word ; the ago which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches...practises, the great art of adapting means to ends. On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make room for a speedier, an inanimate... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should b8 tempted to call it, not an Heroical, ght Hot this one Book, be praised V * * * * • " Thus wandering on, they had now reached the adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pages
...characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be lempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above...forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adopting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance.... | |
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