 The hope of the past times was gone, the struggles of mankind for many ages had produced nothing but this sordid, aimless, ugly confusion; the immediate future seemed to me likely to intensify all the present evils by sweeping away the last survivals...  Tract - Fabian Society - Page 22by Fabian Society (Great Britain) - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Aymer Vallance - Artists - 1897 - 766 pages
...inaugurated in England in 1864, at a meeting held in St. Martin's Hall, London, at which Professor Beesly ss of mankind for many ages had produced nothing but...on the world. This was a bad look-out indeed, and . . . especially so to a man of my disposition, careless of metaphysics and religion, as well as of... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1908 - 76 pages
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...Its eyeless vulgarity which has destroyed art, the one certain solace of labour? . . . The struggles of mankind for many ages had produced nothing but...squalor of civilization had settled down on the world. . . . Think of it! Was it all to end in a counting-house on top of a cinder-heap, with Podsnap's drawing-room... | |
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...felt then as now, but I did not know why it was so. The hope of the past times was gone, the struggles of mankind for many ages had produced nothing but...mention myself as a personality and not as a mere type, especiallv so to a man of my disposition, careless of metaphysics and religion, as well as of scientific... | |
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