 The statistician will register a growing progress, and the moralist a gradual decline: on the one hand, a progress of things; on the other, a decline of souls. The useful will take the place of the beautiful, industry of art, political economy of religion,...  American Medicine - Page 1111910Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 502 pages
...plateau with fewer and fewer undulations, without contrasts or oppositions — such will be the future aspect of human society. The statistician will register...progress of things, on the other a decline of souls. ... Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general well-being be purchased... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 560 pages
...runs a great risk of seeing no more true individuals. By continual levelling and division of labour, society will become everything and man nothing. As...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a levelling age. Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general wellbeing... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 588 pages
...runs a great risk of seeing no more true individuals. By continual levelling and division of labour, society will become everything and man nothing. As...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a levelling age. Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general wellbeing... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...disappear. A plateau with fewer and fewer undulations, without contrasts and without oppositions,—such will be the aspect of human society. The statistician...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a levelling age. Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general wellbeing... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1886 - 592 pages
...individuals. By continual levelling and division of labor, society will become everything and man nothing. The statistician will register a growing progress,...economy, of religion ; and arithmetic, of poetry." And, again, in still more hopeless strain: "Everywhere, you see a tendency to substitute the laws of... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...By continual levelling and division of labour, society will become everything and man toothing.' • As the floor of valleys is raised by the denudation...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a levelling age. Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era? May not the general wellbeing... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1889 - 378 pages
...runs a great risk of seeing no more true individuals. By continual levelling and division of labour, society will become everything and man nothing. As...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a levelling age• Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general wellbeing... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1890 - 336 pages
...become everything and man nothing. ... A plateau with fewer and fewer undulations, without contrasts aud without oppositions — such will be the aspect of...political economy of religion, and arithmetic of poetry. He writes to himself a sort of " spiritual letter " that might almost have been Fenelon's (the date... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1890 - 378 pages
...contrasts and without oppositions, — such will be the aspect of human society. The st»tieti««in will register a growing progress, and the moralist...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a levelling age. Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general wellbeing... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1891 - 378 pages
...disappear. A plateau with fewer and fewer undulations, without contrasts and without oppositions,—such will be the aspect of human society. The statistician...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a levelling age. Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general wellbeing... | |
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