 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...not an heroical, devotional, philosophical, or moral age, but above all others, the mechanical age. It is the age of machinery in every outward and inward sense of the word.' — Misccllan. vol. ii. p. 146. ' It is admitted, on all sides, that the metaphysical and... | |
 | Albert Borgmann - Philosophy - 1984 - 310 pages
...first to use the notion of machinery for a comprehensive critique of his time of which he says in 1829: It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward...with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practices the great art of adapting means to ends. 9 Timothy Walker who replied to Carlyle in a "Defense... | |
 | Bruce Mazlish - Communities - 1989 - 348 pages
...not a Religious age." Instead, as Carlyle divines in his memorable lines, it is "the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word." Carlyle, a deeply religious unbeliever, accepted the demise of Religion in its traditional garb, and... | |
 | Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff - History - 1991 - 613 pages
...Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which . . . practises the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done direcdy, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. ... On every hand, the living artisan... | |
 | Mihai Nadin - Computers and literacy - 1997 - 880 pages
...epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not a Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some... | |
 | Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff - History - 1991 - 613 pages
...characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it... the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which ... practises the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done direcdy, or by hand; all... | |
 | Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff - History - 1991 - 613 pages
...characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it... the Mechanical Age. 1t is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which . .. practises the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand; all... | |
 | Marie-Claire Rouyer - Diet in literature - 1998 - 292 pages
..."not an Heroical. Devotional. Philosophical. or Moral Age. but above all others. the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery. in every outward and inward sense of that word" (Kucich 198). of the dishes to further mash them down to their glutinous final state and a vocabulary... | |
 | James Chandler - History - 1999 - 616 pages
...Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age[,] . . . the Age of Machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word."82 Two years later, writing between the 1830 Revolution in Paris, on which he had reported to... | |
 | Royal Historical Society - History - 1999 - 406 pages
...not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word'. Carlyle never doubted material progress: 'What wonderful accessions have thus been made, and are still... | |
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It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word ; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches, and practises the great art of adapting means to ends. 
