 Were we required to characterise 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...  The Civilization of Illiteracy - Page 851by Mihai Nadin - 1997 - 881 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1829 - 566 pages
...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...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation,... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...it, not an heroica!, devotional, philosophical, or moral age, but, above all others, the mechanical age. It is the age of machinery, in every outward...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation,... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...call it, notanHeroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation,... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Mora\ Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Âge. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation,... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pages
...it, notan Heroica), Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical iU t : h j& &) w $=" F 7 U # яb2C "dRY hG , | * U d| ago which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adapting... | |
 | Theology - 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 468 pages
...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...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...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...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand ; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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
...call it not an heroica!, devotional, philosophical, or moral age; but above all others, the mechanical age. It is the age of 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... | |
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