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“But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.”

Knows Stills Ideas Whole Moments Use Science Lying Given Education Class England Present Moment Neglect Instruction Continents Strict Systematic Prominence

Book:The Works of Matthew Arnold

Source: The Works of Matthew Arnold

“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.”

Ifs Thinking Today Lying Sex Differences Lines Generations Degrees England Mistaken Commonplace Victorian Pompeii

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.”

Moments Lying Church England Newspapers Editors Church Of England

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.”

Eye Moving Lying England Clouds Speed Landscape Towers Glances Limbs Herds Steadfast Horizontal These Eyes

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”

Real Facts Lying Poverty Emotional Intellectual Weakness Ideals England Court Coast Creeps Incomplete Lanes Drunkenness Armament

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)