“it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.” MayChildrenSaidGenerationsModernBoundsFormerPrintCompositionIntroduction Author:Anna Kingsford
“Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.” WayMadeBookAgeUsedFatherLiteratureModernWastePaperCourtGuidesFormerPosterityAvenuesOur Father Book:Works: Redburn, his first voyage Source: Works: Redburn, his first voyage
“There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.” ThinkingWritingDoeNightDifferencesModernPersonalityClubsFormerLatterSensibilityAffinityImmediacyLiterary WorksNight Club Author:Paul Horgan
“I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.” LongRunningWhiteClassGrowingModernImportanceMethodPracticalsIgnorantFormerGuaranteesPriestsNot AfraidLong RunsAntsEmancipationScientific MethodClergyLower ClassSlowly But SurelyPractical LifeFortification Book:Aphorisms and reflections Source: Aphorisms and reflections
“One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.” MenProgressModernComfortCivilizationDenyFormerEaseHardshipToilTrailsModern Civilization Author:Haile Selassie
“We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.” PeopleMadeRealityDecisionModernBattleDemandWake UpResponsibleAvailableInsaneFormerOur TimeMakersAncestorIrresponsibleAxesArmamentDecision Makers Author:Thor Heyerdahl