 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 Seiten
...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 or New York....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... | |
 | Albert Gehring - 1912 - 120 Seiten
...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;... | |
 | Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock - 1922 - 632 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 372 Seiten
...things. They aTe but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too "eSsy TO arrive at — as railroads lead to 'Boston or New...magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and sTexas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. Either is in such a predicament as the man... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - 1927 - 228 Seiten
...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;... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1967 - 428 Seiten
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee - 1973 - 312 Seiten
...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 or New York....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... | |
 | Daniel J. Czitrom - 1982 - 276 Seiten
...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;... | |
 | Donald Ahern, Robert Shenk - 1984 - 128 Seiten
...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... | |
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We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas ; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. 
