 Progress is either physical or intellectual. If we can bring it about that men are on the average an inch taller in the next generation than in this; if they are an inch larger round the chest; if their brain is an ounce or two heavier, and their life...  The University of Chicago Magazine - 120. lappuse1919Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 lapas
...their brain is an ounce or two heavier, and their life a year or two longer, — that is progress. If fifty years hence the average man shall invariably...potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind." To this doctrine the New Englander replied, " What will you do for moral progress ? " Every possible... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 lapas
...their brain is an ounce or two heavier, and their life a year or two longer, — that is progress. If fifty years hence the average man shall invariably...potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind." To this doctrine the New Englander replied, " What will you do for moral progress ? " Every possible... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1907 - 630 lapas
...retorted that he expected such progress to be made here, H1nder our democratic stimulants, on a grand scale, until every man is potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind. For the education of the young Stagirite there was now offered a scheme of Jeffersonian simplicity:... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1920 - 220 lapas
...not amount to 1 "Essay on Carlyle," Miscellanies, vol. i, p. 192. f A anything. Henry Adams pictures Jefferson as saying to himself: "If fifty years hence...democratic stimulants, on a great scale, until every man flis potentially an athlete in body and an /I Aristotle in mind." In speaking of the characteristic... | |
 | Karl Lehmann - 1985 - 308 lapas
...year 1800, he proclaimed the Greek ideal as that of future America. Progress, he said, he expected "to be made here, under our democratic stimulants,...potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind." Knowledge was an achievement of the ancients and an inheritance from them. And "knolege is power, knolege... | |
 | Robert J. Higgs, Michael Braswell - 2004 - 438 lapas
...if their brain is an ounce or two heavier, and their life a year or two longer — that is progress. If fifty years hence the average man shall invariably...potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind. The imagined response of the New Englander, John Adams, was this, stunning in its brevity and insight:... | |
 | Leon Trotsky - 2005 - 354 lapas
...optimism — and of Thomas Jefferson's anticipation of human "progress... physical or intellectual — until every man is potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind."23 But Trotsky was never out of touch with the difficult struggles that had to come between the... | |
 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 lapas
...their brain is an ounce or two heavier, and their life a year or two longer, — that is progress. If fifty years hence the average man shall invariably...potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind." To this doctrine the New Englander replied, "What will you do for moral progress?" Every possible answer... | |
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