 You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers...  Selections and Essays - Page 223by John Ruskin - 1918 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1910 - 356 pages
...cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision...accomplishment of the mean act. The eye of the soul must be bent upon the finger-point, and the soul's force must fill all the invisible nerves that guide it,... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - 1912 - 252 pages
...cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision...their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanise them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves.... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1913 - 362 pages
...cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision...their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanise them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves.... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1913 - 362 pages
...fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanise them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves. The eye of the soul must be bent upon the finger-point, and the soul's force must fill all the invisible... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 pages
...cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision...accomplishment of the mean act. The eye of the soul must be bent upon the finger-point, and the soul's force must fill all the invisible nerves that guide it,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 372 pages
...(gnnot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision...themselves. All their attention and strength must g( to the accomplishment of the mean act. The eye of the soul must be bent upon the finger-point, and... | |
 | John William Graham - 1920 - 280 pages
...cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision...them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energy of... | |
 | Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander - 1920 - 512 pages
...creature or a man of him," says Ruskin. " Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, you must unhumanize them." Men are more than cogs in a wheel. Is the end of life to make souls or to... | |
 | Frederick William Roe - 1921 - 364 pages
...cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision...accomplishment of the mean act. The eye of the soul must be bent upon the finger-point, and the soul's force must fill all the invisible nerves that guide it,... | |
 | Niles Carpenter - 1922 - 372 pages
...Munera Pulveris (London, 1871), especially Sees. 11-14, 69; and Unto This Last (London, 1862), passim. measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike...like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energies of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves. . . . And now, reader,... | |
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