 The truth is that one-half of the American mind, that not occupied intensely in practical affairs, has remained, I will not say high-and-dry, but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the back-water, while, alongside, in invention and industry and...  The Significance of the Fine Arts - Pàgina 232per American Institute of Architects. Committee on Education - 1923 - 483 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Santayana - 1913 - 236 pàgines
...Mr. Bernard Shaw finds that America is a hundred years behind the times. /The truth is that one -half of the American mind, that not occupied intensely...but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the back-water, while, alongside, in invention and industry and social organisation, the other half of... | |
 | George Santayana - 1913 - 236 pàgines
...Mr. Bernard Shaw finds that America is a hundred years behind the times. The truth is that one -half of the American mind, that not occupied intensely...but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the back-water, while, alongside, in invention and industry and social organisation, the other half of... | |
 | John Moffatt Mecklin - 1920 - 476 pàgines
...the hereditary spirit that still prevails, so much so that Mr. Bernard Shaw finds that America is one hundred years behind the times. The truth is that...in practical affairs, has remained, I will not say high and dry, but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the back-water, while, alongside, in... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pàgines
...and discoveries of the younger generations. In all the higher things of the mind — in religion, in literature, in the moral emotions — it is the hereditary...but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the back-water, while, alongside, in invention and industry and social organisation, the other half of... | |
 | George Santayana - 1926 - 232 pàgines
...and discoveries of the younger generations. In all the higher things of the mind — in religion, in literature, in the moral emotions — it is the hereditary...but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the back-water, while, alongside, in invention and industry and social organisation, the other half of... | |
 | Baker Brownell - 1929 - 166 pàgines
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 | 1911 - 510 pàgines
...so that Mr. Bernard Shaw finds that America is a hundred years behind the times. The truth is that that one-half of the American mind, that not occupied...but slightly becalmed; it has floated gently in the backwater, while, alongside, in invention and industry and social organization the other half of the... | |
 | George Santayana - 1937 - 266 pàgines
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