...from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at ; as railroads lead to Boston...communicate. Either is in such a predicament as the Lman who was earnest to be introduced to a distinguished deaf woman, but when he was presented, and...

...distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end . . . We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph...Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate . . . We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new;...

...by, who would not soonest salute the scarecrow ?' MR. JP MORGAN : 'We are in great haste to conduct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine...woman, but when he was presented, and one end of her ear-trumpet was put into his hand, had nothing to say." MR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER: 'Those things for...

...Ruskin's distrust of civilization, had said something very similar to this in his Woiden (published 1854): "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph...it may be, have nothing important to communicate." Are you the better for what she replied? If not, you have only wasted an all-around-the-world's length...

...generation to which even the telegraph was a novelty, "are but improved means to an unimproved end. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph...it may be, have nothing important to communicate. . . . We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new;...

...technology alone will not bring about human understanding. Henry David Thoreau once wrote: "We are in such great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from...Texas. But Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing to communicate." In the 21st century, when the world stands listening, what will it hear? It will not...

...from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at ; as railroads lead to Boston...it may be, have nothing important to communicate. * * * One says to me, "I wonder that you do not lay up money ; you love to travel ; you might take...

...illusory modern improvement rather than a positive advance, "an improved means to an unimproved end. . . . We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph...it may be, have nothing important to communicate. . . . We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new;...

...college-educated person. Thoreau had spoken of the same issue earlier in America, of course, when he said, "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph...Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."1 By 1880, though, the Victorian populace had become so enthralled by the telegraph and...

...was there — especially when conquest enslaves people to the monied system that it in turn creates. "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas," he noted, as he pondered whether Maine and Texas had anything to say to each other. Walt Whitman also...