Human WorkMcClure, Philips & Company, 1904 - 389 páginas |
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Página 253 - Straggle and be content; but God be praised, Antonio Stradivari has an eye That winces at false work and loves the true, With hand and arm that play upon the tool As willingly as any singing bird Sets him to sing his morning roundelay, Because he likes to sing and likes the song.
Página 104 - I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals .... they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied .... not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another...
Página 104 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Página 104 - They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, L2:47 PM Page 102 JEFFREY A.
Página 356 - With the right economic belief and action there would be no division of Producer and Consumer, no Leisure Class, no Working Class, no serried ranks of Capital and Labor.
Página 67 - ... her own theory would allow her to be, her critical .analysis of the economic relation of the sexes is telling. First, I will lay out Gilman's economic foundations. In her book Human Work, Oilman attacks the well accepted Want Theory (or economic version of "the survival of the fittest"), the thesis that "man works to gratify wants, and that if his wants are otherwise gratified he will not work."36...
Página 207 - The humble squaw who drops corn into her stick-ploughed field is actuated by a concept, a knowledge of how in time there will be fruit for her children. There is no present stimulus, she pushes herself, urged by the accumulating nerve force of the larger brain. Her lord, the noble Redman, gallantly pursuing the buffalo, is acting merely as an animal, under direct stimulus of hunger and the visible beast before him. Being hungry, he hunts. Being fed, he does nothing. He can only act in the lower circuit...
Página 43 - ... been indifferent to it. We have interesting illustrations of what the concept can do by way of interpreting incidents of which poets have loosely prated: "An excellent proof of the power of concepts compared with conditions is given in the heroism of William Phelps, the Indianapolis negro. Two colored men were at work in a great boiler, riveting. Some person by accident turned on the steam. Hot steam as a material condition is quite forcible, and the two men started for the ladder. But Phelps,...
Página 18 - ... Man as a factor in social evolution. — Concept and conduct. — Some false concepts. — The nature of society. — The social soul. — The social body. — The nature of work. — Specialisation. — Production. — Distribution. — Consumption. — Our position to-day. — The true position. "Study of the economic processes of society, explaining the immediate causes of a large part of our human suffering, and suggesting certain simple, swift, and easy changes of mind by which we may so...
Página 145 - He is social-ish and doesn't know it. Q. Why is man never satisfied in spite of all he gets? A. Because he hasn't found his mouth yet. He is hungry for a thousand, and tries to give a thousand dinners to himself to quench that hunger.