Signs of Change: Seven Lectures Delivered on Various OccasionsReeves and Turner, 1888 - 202 стор. |
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Aims of Art amidst Artificial Famine Baronage beauty become better burden called capitalist carried Chartism civilization claim class struggle co-operation commercial compelled competition compulsion conscious degradation Democrats division of labour emancipation of labour England epoch existence fear feel feudal system force French Revolution give hand happy hope industrial JOHN KEATS kind king labour labour-power least leisure live livelihood look lord machinery machines masters means medieval Middle Ages middle class mind modern mood of energy nations Nature necessary necessity needs numbers once organized ornament Parliament party period pleasure political poor present system produce profit profit-grinders proletariat rest revolution rich Robert Owen serf sham short Simon de Montfort slaves Socialism Socialist society struggle tariat things tion toil Tory tyranny wages wares waste wealth Whiggery Whigs words workers workman
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Сторінка vii - I found that the causes of the vulgarities of civilization lay deeper than I had thought, and little by little I was driven to the conclusion that all these uglinesses are but the outward expression of the innate moral baseness into which we are forced by our present form of society, and that it is futile to attempt to deal with them from the outside.
Сторінка 88 - ... houses, with their glorious architecture ; the beautiful manor-houses, some of them castles once, and survivals from an earlier period ; some new and elegant ; some out of all proportion small for the importance of their lords. How strange it would be to us if we could be landed in fourteenth-century England ; unless we saw the crest of some familiar hill, like that which yet bears upon it a symbol of an English tribe. and from which, looking down on the plain where Alfred was born, I once had...
Сторінка 133 - For my part I believe, that if we try to realize the aims of art without much troubling ourselves what the aspect of the art itself shall be, we shall find we shall have what we want at last: whether it is to be called art or not, it will at least be life; and, after all, that is what we want.
Сторінка 144 - I think that to all living things there is a pleasure in the exercise of their energies, and that even beasts rejoice in being lithe and swift and strong. But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
Сторінка 42 - American bourgeoisie's pretence of democracy thus : '. . . a country with universal suffrage, no king, no House of Lords, no privilege as you fondly think; only a little standing army, chiefly used for the murder of red-skins; a democracy after your model; and with all that a society corrupt to the core, and at this moment engaged in suppressing freedom with just the same reckless brutality and blind ignorance as the Czar of all the Russias uses.
Сторінка 141 - In short, it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself - a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others.
Сторінка 149 - Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use, The sunlight, the fresh air, the unspoiled face of the earth. food, raiment and housing necessary and decent: the storing up of knowledge of all kinds, and the power of disseminating it: means of free communication between man and man: works of art. the beauty which man creates when he is most a man. most aspiring and thoughtful...