There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that miser)' which he strives... The Christian socialist - Sayfa 1411883Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Bathroom Readers' Institute - 1989 - 228 sayfa
...even crime — more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business." "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." "Not until we are lost — in other words, not until we have lost the world — do we begin to find... | |
| Joel Jay Kassiola - 1990 - 320 sayfa
...species life and death, raised within our domain by the industrial crisis. Thoreau perceptively remarked, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." 55 Pertaining to the study of advanced industrial society, as I shall try to show in the following... | |
| Daniel A. Dombrowski - 1992 - 236 sayfa
...Thoreau are all opponents of pious do-gooders. The last alerts us to the (sanjuanistic) idea that: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil...largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. . . . Philanthropy... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 sayfa
...H. Schapsmeier, Political Parties and Civil Action Groups, pp. 122-23 (1981). See also No. 560. 566 There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden, chapter 1, p. 98 (1966). Originally published in 1854. Excellence 567... | |
| Scott Simmon - 1993 - 196 sayfa
...Griffith is closer to a worried nineteenth-century tradition, as in Walden in which Thoreau suggests that "it may be that he who bestows the largest amount...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. "1S The program for the opening of Intolerance at the Liberty Theater in New York goes so far as to... | |
| Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - 236 sayfa
...of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 327, Houghton Mifflin (1906). See also BOOKS EFORM AND REFORMERS There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 84, Houghton Mifflin (1906). See... | |
| Deanna J. Stouder, Peter A. Bisson, Robert J. Naiman - 1997 - 732 sayfa
...stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement (Mill 1857). There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root (Thoreau 1893). This section of the book is focused on some of the institutional foundations that must... | |
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