Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays collected from the Illustrated London News and the New Witness.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN contemplating some common object of the modern street, such as an omnibus or a lamp-post, itis sometimes well worth while to stop and think about why such common objects are regarded ascommonplace. It is well worth while to try to grasp what is the significance of them-or rather, thequality in modernity which makes them so often seem not so much significant as insignificant. Ifyou stop the omnibus while you stop to think about it, you will be unpopular. Even if you try tograsp the lamp-post in your effort to grasp its significance, you will almost certainly bemisunderstood. Nevertheless, the problem is a real one, and not without bearing upon the mostpoignant politics and ethics of to-day. It is certainly not the things themselves, the idea and upshotof them, that are remote from poetry or even mysticism. The idea of a crowd of human strangersturned into comrades for a journey is full of the oldest pathos and piety of human life. Thatprofound feeling of mortal fraternity and frailty, which tells us we are indeed all in the same boat, isnot the less true if expressed in the formula that we are all in the same bus. As for the idea of thelamp-post, the idea of the fixed beacon of the branching thoroughfares, the terrestrial star of theterrestrial traveller, it not only could be, but actually is, the subject of countless songs.Nor is it even true that there is something so trivial or ugly about the names of the things as to makethem commonplace in all connexions. The word "lamp" is especially beloved by the moredecorative and poetic writers; it is a symbol, and very frequently a title. It is true that if Ruskin hadcalled his eloquent work "The Seven Lamp-Posts of Architecture" the effect, to a delicate ear, wouldnot have been quite the same. But even the word "post" is in no sense impossible in poetry; it canbe found with a fine military ring in phrases like "The Last Post" or "Dying at his Post." Iremember, indeed, hearing, when a small child, the line in Macaulay's "Armada" about "with looserein and bloody spur rode inland many a post," and being puzzled at the picture of a pillar-box or alamp-post displaying so much activity. But certainly it is not the mere sound of the word that makesit unworkable in the literature of wonder or beauty. "Omnibus" may seem at first sight a moredifficult thing to swallow-if I may be allowed a somewhat gigantesque figure of speech. This, itmay be said, is a Cockney and ungainly modern word, as it is certainly a Cockney and ungainlymodern thing. But even this is not true. The word "omnibus" is a very noble word with a very noblemeaning and even tradition. It is derived from an ancient and adamantine tongue which has rolled itwith very authoritative thunders: quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus. It is a word really morehuman and universal than republic or democracy. A man might very consistently build a temple forall the tribes of men, a temple of the largest pattern and the loveliest design, and then call it anomnibus. It is true that the dignity of this description has really been somewhat diminished by theillogical habit of clipping the word down to the last and least important part of it. But that is onlyone of many modern examples in which real vulgarity is not in democracy, but rather in the loss ofdemocracy. It is about as democratic to call an omnibus a bus as it would be to call a democrat a rat.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN contemplating some common object of the modern street, such as an omnibus or a lamp-post, itis sometimes well worth while to stop and think about why such common objects are regarded ascommonplace. It is well worth while to try to grasp what is the significance of them-or rather, thequality in modernity which makes them so often seem not so much significant as insignificant. Ifyou stop the omnibus while you stop to think about it, you will be unpopular. Even if you try tograsp the lamp-post in your effort to grasp its significance, you will almost certainly bemisunderstood. Nevertheless, the problem is a real one, and not without bearing upon the mostpoignant politics and ethics of to-day. It is certainly not the things themselves, the idea and upshotof them, that are remote from poetry or even mysticism. The idea of a crowd of human strangersturned into comrades for a journey is full of the oldest pathos and piety of human life. Thatprofound feeling of mortal fraternity and frailty, which tells us we are indeed all in the same boat, isnot the less true if expressed in the formula that we are all in the same bus. As for the idea of thelamp-post, the idea of the fixed beacon of the branching thoroughfares, the terrestrial star of theterrestrial traveller, it not only could be, but actually is, the subject of countless songs.Nor is it even true that there is something so trivial or ugly about the names of the things as to makethem commonplace in all connexions. The word "lamp" is especially beloved by the moredecorative and poetic writers; it is a symbol, and very frequently a title. It is true that if Ruskin hadcalled his eloquent work "The Seven Lamp-Posts of Architecture" the effect, to a delicate ear, wouldnot have been quite the same. But even the word "post" is in no sense impossible in poetry; it canbe found with a fine military ring in phrases like "The Last Post" or "Dying at his Post." Iremember, indeed, hearing, when a small child, the line in Macaulay's "Armada" about "with looserein and bloody spur rode inland many a post," and being puzzled at the picture of a pillar-box or alamp-post displaying so much activity. But certainly it is not the mere sound of the word that makesit unworkable in the literature of wonder or beauty. "Omnibus" may seem at first sight a moredifficult thing to swallow-if I may be allowed a somewhat gigantesque figure of speech. This, itmay be said, is a Cockney and ungainly modern word, as it is certainly a Cockney and ungainlymodern thing. But even this is not true. The word "omnibus" is a very noble word with a very noblemeaning and even tradition. It is derived from an ancient and adamantine tongue which has rolled itwith very authoritative thunders: quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus. It is a word really morehuman and universal than republic or democracy. A man might very consistently build a temple forall the tribes of men, a temple of the largest pattern and the loveliest design, and then call it anomnibus. It is true that the dignity of this description has really been somewhat diminished by theillogical habit of clipping the word down to the last and least important part of it. But that is onlyone of many modern examples in which real vulgarity is not in democracy, but rather in the loss ofdemocracy. It is about as democratic to call an omnibus a bus as it would be to call a democrat a rat.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Uses of Diversity' is a collection of essays from the "Prince of Paradox". Written by the English writer and philosopher, Chesterton’s essays are full of exciting points, intelligent jokes, and intriguing insights, and beautifully showcase Chesterton’s thoughts and beliefs. Some of the essays featured in the collection include: ‘On Seriousness’, ‘Tennyson’, ‘The Japanese’, ‘Christian Science’, ‘The Evolution of Emma’, ‘Questions of Divorce’, ‘Mormonism’, ‘Dickens Again’, ‘George Wyndham’, and ‘On Monsters’. A superb collection for readers of Chesterton, which covers a wide array of topics on everything from religion and nationalities to poltics and different influential novelists. Known as the ‘Prince of Paradox,’ Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English author, philosopher, and literary critic. An unparalleled essayist, he produced over four thousand essays during his lifetime, alongside eighty novels and two hundred short stories. Himself both a modernist and devout Catholic, he is remembered best for his priest-detective short stories ‘Father Brown’, and his metaphysical thriller ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’. In his lifetime, Chesterton befriended and debated some of the greatest thinkers of the age, such as George Bernard Shore, H. G. Wells, and Bertrand Russell, while his works went on to inspire figures including T. S. Eliot, Michael Collins, and Mahatma Gandhi. According to his autobiography, Chesterton and Shaw also played cowboys in a silent movie that was never released.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by David Ellerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues for the virtues of diversity in cities, organizations, strategies for development, and human discourse in general. The opening chapter develops the vision of Jane Jacobs (the "diva of diversity") for the development of city regions. Many of the later chapters are based on the author's ten years in the World Bank and Senior Advisor and speechwriter for Joseph Stiglitz. Many of the problems in the World Bank's policies were based on a narrow ideological vision that did not tolerate a diversity of pragmatic approaches to the complex questions of economic and social development. Finally, the narrow social-engineering criterion for evaluating social projects is cost-benefit analysis, and the penultimate chapter develops a logical fallacy in the Kaldor-Hicks Principle that is the theoretical basis for cost-benefit analysis.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity A Book of Essays written by G. K. Chesterton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
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Download or read book The Uses of Diversity A Book of Essays written by Chesterton G K 1874-1936 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Diversity Transformative Knowledge and Civic Education written by James A. Banks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award The essays collected in this book, by James A. Banks, a foundational figure in the field of multicultural education, illuminate the interconnection between the author’s work on knowledge construction and civic education. In pieces both poignant and personal, Banks shares some of his most groundbreaking and innovative work. Diversity, Transformative Knowledge, and Civic Education aims to unpack the "citizenship-education dilemma," whereby education programs strive to teach students democratic ideals and values within social, economic, political, and educational contexts that contradict justice, equality, and human rights. For change to take place, students need to internalize democratic values, by directly experiencing them in transformative classrooms and schools that are envisioned and described in this book. Drawn from Banks’ formidable canon, this collection highlights the conceptual, curricular, and pedagogical issues related to this dilemma, and signals a fundamental shift toward transformative citizenship education. Students, scholars and educators in the fields of multicultural education, civic education, social studies education, comparative education, and the foundations of education will find this book to be a valuable resource for discussion and discovery.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by G K Chesterton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false reli-gions. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of everything: he bows down to wood and stone until his limbs are as rooted as the roots of the tree or his head as fallen as the stone sunken by the roadside. It has often been discussed whether animals can laugh. The hyena is said to laugh: but it is rather in the sense in which the M.P. is said to utter "an ironical cheer." At the best, the hyena utters an ironical laugh. Broadly, it is true that all animals except Man are serious. And I think it is further demonstrated by the fact that all human beings who concern themselves in a concentrated way with animals are also serious; serious in a sense far beyond that of human beings concerned with anything else.
Download or read book The Uses of Diversity written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Uses of Diversity: A Book of Essays Life is not shorn of loves and hates While there are sparrows on the slates And keepers in the Park. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book 55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays written by Staff of the Harvard Crimson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, 55 of the successful applicants to Harvard Law School share the essays that helped them make the cut. Each is analyzed by the staff of the "Harvard Crimson" and accompanied by no-nonsense advice to help readers craft their own winning essays.
