Man
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1.The question what man is and the study of human nature
1a.Man as the proper study of mankind
See also: Poetry 9c
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 121Men should contemplate who they are and to what end they were born, and use the power of contemplation.read · scan
- p. 141–142What work were we born to perform?read · scan
- p. 147Asks whether we know what Man is, his nature, and the idea we have of him.read · scan
- p. 147Man must know who he is and to what end he was born.read · scan
- p. 154–155Learn to walk alone and know who you are.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 262He sums up innocent relaxation in one phrase: I am a man.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 221–222Man's purpose is the work of a human being.read · scan
- p. 227Only what belongs to man as man and serves his nature's end can be called his; the end of man is the good.read · scan
- p. 249Plato: one discoursing of men should view earthly things from a higher place, seeing all human affairs as an orderly combination of contraries.read · scan
- p. 277What does the work of a man is a man; each thing fulfils its own function.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 206–207Self-knowledge and humility; a man's worth lies in confessing ignorance.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, The Author to the ReaderVol. 32
- p. 4Takes himself, with his imperfections and natural form, as the plain subject of the book.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of BookesVol. 32
- p. 94Prefers to know great men's private talk and chamber life over public speeches; Cicero's son's cruelty shows character.read · scan
- p. 94Wants to know the variety and truth of great men's inward conditions.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 14The orator must study the heart of man and its powers.read · scan
- p. 68Religion is venerable because it has perfect knowledge of man.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 424–425Our natural idea of man is clearer than Plato's definition of him as a two-legged featherless animal.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 316–318Fruits of Solitude called a mine of pithy comment upon human life.read · scan
- p. 323Man is the epitome of the world; reading ourselves well teaches us; we are strangers to our own genius.read · scan
Alexander Pope, Solitude; On a Certain Lady at Court; Essay on ManVol. 40
- p. 405–406Pope proposes to study man's nature and state first, since moral duty depends on man's condition and purpose.read · scan
- p. 407The Essay is a general map of man.read · scan
- p. 413–415Man is a middle being, darkly wise and rudely great, both glory and riddle of the world; proper study of mankind is man.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 138–139Congreve's men of honourable language but knavish actions show knowledge of human nature.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Life of Addison, 1672-1719Vol. 27
- p. 179–180He observed diligently the ways of many classes of men and detected follies rather than crimes.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Preface to ShakespeareVol. 39
- p. 212He shows human nature as it acts in real exigencies, in human sentiments and language.read · scan
- p. 224–225Works should be estimated against human abilities and the enquiry how far man may extend his designs and rate his native force.read · scan
- p. 226–227Shakespeare acquaints us with human sentiments and actions, product of observation impregnated by genius.read · scan
- p. 229–230Shakespeare looked on mankind with perspicacity; earlier ages had not yet analysed the mind, passions, and motives of the heart.read · scan
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingVol. 37
- p. 289Man considered either as an active being or as a reasonable being; science of human nature.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among MankindVol. 34
- p. 165–166Rousseau undertakes to speak of man and champion the cause of mankind before the sages.read · scan
- p. 166–167Addresses all mankind about the qualities received from nature, which education and habits could deprave but not destroy.read · scan
Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of MoralsVol. 32
- p. 321–322Moralists seek principles in knowledge of human nature, which comes only from experience.read · scan
- p. 336Kant denies that moral principles can be derived from particular characteristics of human nature, since they bind all rational beings.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 198Statecraft needs deep knowledge of human nature and necessities.read · scan
- p. 200–201Theorists of the rights of man have forgotten his nature, stopping up the avenues to the heart and perverting sympathies.read · scan
- p. 270Burke says he has studied human nature as modified in France to fit himself for serving mankind.read · scan
- p. 314The scheme ignores men's actions, passions and interests: 'Hominem non sapiunt'.read · scan
- p. 332Expecting such obedience requires a new constitution for the human mind; human nature cannot be legislated away.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Introduction to the PropyläenVol. 39
- p. 255Man is the highest, characteristic subject of plastic art, requiring knowledge of anatomy and organic nature.read · scan
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of ManVol. 32
- p. 255The ideal of beauty is derived with the ideal of humanity from reason.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Prefaces to Various Volumes of PoemsVol. 39
- p. 277–278The poet has greater knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive soul, yet is a man speaking to men.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Essay Supplementary to PrefaceVol. 39
- p. 318Shakespeare praised for his intuitive knowledge of human nature.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 614–615Nature led the boy to think on man, the heart of man, and human life.read · scan
Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of ShakspereVol. 27
- p. 305–306Recognising part of Shakspere's images, we think we comprehend in our nature the whole; he creates powers in us.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 337–339Every human being is a volume worth studying; human nature is revealed in our own souls and passions.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 343He wonders whether pity means he is 'no longer a man', questioning what manhood requires.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of PoetryVol. 27
- p. 358Contemporary poets measure and sound the depths of human nature.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, CharacteristicsVol. 25
- p. 335Endless Essays and Inquiries concerning Man show an intensely self-conscious age doubting its relation to the universe.read · scan
- p. 339–340Man is sent to work, not question: the end of man is an action, not a thought.read · scan
- p. 343The old ideal of manhood is obsolete and the new invisible.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 345Man's nature supplies grounds for virtue; living as we ought is hard even with moderate self-reflection.read · scan
Thomas Babington Macaulay, MachiavelliVol. 27
- p. 383Drama aims to exhibit human character, holding the mirror up to nature.read · scan
- p. 384Drama succeeds by correct delineation of human nature, producing interest and laughter.read · scan
Victor Hugo, Preface to CromwellVol. 39
- p. 343The individual, once lowly and touched only by domestic sorrow, reflects inward on life's disillusionments.read · scan
- p. 355–356After abstract vice and abstract virtue, what remains to represent is man, in the drama.read · scan
- p. 368Drama illuminates the interior and exterior of mankind, the drama of life and of conscience.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, BeautyVol. 5
- p. 297The tenant is more than the house; the human heart concerns us more than measurement.read · scan
- p. 298–300No object interests us but man and his superiorities; even natural law fascinates only through its relation to him.read · scan
Giuseppe Mazzini, Byron and GoetheVol. 32
- p. 386–387Goethe had no esteem for men and no representative of man as thinker and actor in his works.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Origin of SpeciesVol. 11
- p. 33Pure animal-breed ancestry; man not discussed.read · scan
- p. 33–34Domestic race origins; man not a subject.read · scan
- p. 505Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 194Narrator values learning of human nature under new circumstances from sailors' lives.read · scan
- p. 252Narrator argues we learn truths by contrast among outcasts, seeing what accident, hardship or vice work on fellow creatures.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 151Good novels are treatises on moral anatomy, studies of human nature in its elements.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, DemocracyVol. 28
- p. 455–456The chief end of man shifted from keeping the soul alive to keeping the body comfortably alive; the Rights of Man.read · scan
- p. 468–470Man matters more than columns of figures; no cure for human nature's ills outside human nature itself.read · scan
Matthew Arnold, The Study of PoetryVol. 28
- p. 77–78Chaucer surveys the world from a central, truly human point of view with a kindly view of human life.read · scan
- p. 90Good literature's supremacy is secured by humanity's instinct of self-preservation.read · scan
Walter Bagehot, John MiltonVol. 28
- p. 166Biography aims to give the best idea of the man as he lived and was.read · scan
- p. 176Deficiency in knowledge of plain human nature marks Milton among great English authors.read · scan
Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel PepysVol. 28
- p. 296–297Pepys observes the lives, speech and manners of his fellow-men with fidelity of detail and romance.read · scan
1b.Man's ignorance of his own nature
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 45Asks what sort of man any man is, being but a man; without God a guide to his own downfall.read · scan
- p. 56–57Man is a great deep, whose feelings and heartbeats are harder to number than his hairs.read · scan
- p. 163Man is dust and ashes, opaque to himself, yet known wholly by his Maker.read · scan
- p. 174Asks what nature he is: a manifold, immense life set apart from the beasts.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 31Man is dependent on everything: place, time, air, food; knowing him requires knowing all that relates to him.read · scan
- p. 32Man is to himself the most wonderful object, unable to conceive body, mind, or their union.read · scan
- p. 41–42Man's nature is wholly natural, yet he can make anything natural and lose anything natural.read · scan
- p. 65–66Solomon and Job best knew human misery, one from pleasures' vanity, the other from evils' reality; we scarcely know ourselves.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 324Man's ignorance of his own structure, body, digestion and rational soul, which should teach reverence for his Creator.read · scan
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingVol. 37
- p. 416Universal perplexity and confusion are inherent in human nature and understanding.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 242Man does not know his own nature or whether he is a simple or compound being.read · scan
Michael Faraday, The Forces of MatterVol. 30
- p. 7Man's own existence, upright posture and movement are marvels we take for granted.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 273–275Shelley says the story illuminates the dark, secret caverns of the human heart.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 860–861Asks whence we are and why, actors or spectators of what scene; great and mean meet in death.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter ScottVol. 25
- p. 416No one can say what is in any man; the uttered part of a life is a small fraction of the unconscious whole.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipVol. 5
- p. 110Man has not advanced toward solving the problem of his destiny despite ages of experience.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-SoulVol. 5
- p. 133Man is a stream whose source is hidden; human life seems mean yet the soul makes an enormous claim.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1249–1250Wonders chiefly at himself; asks who can tell him what he is, or how eternities meet in a human elf.read · scan
Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel PepysVol. 28
- p. 290Human self-knowledge is limited by timidity and dullness; we hide from ourselves what we are.read · scan
1c.The uniformity of human nature across times and peoples
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 235–236What is possible and conformable to man's nature can be attained by oneself too.read · scan
- p. 291Mildness and gentleness are more agreeable to human nature.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 258–260The place is described as cradle of human nature in its birth.read · scan
Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of LeviathanVol. 34
- p. 309–310Read thyself: passions are alike in all men, so self-examination reveals human nature, though objects of passion vary.read · scan
John Dryden, Preface to Fables, Ancient and ModernVol. 39
- p. 164–165Chaucer's characters remain in mankind still; mankind is ever the same, nothing lost from nature though everything altered.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 320–321Maxims cover the whole course of human life, whatever one's station.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 109–110Descartes experienced every human passion, including love for his daughter.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Preface to ShakespeareVol. 39
- p. 210–211Characters are genuine progeny of common humanity, moved by passions and principles shared by all minds.read · scan
David Hume, Of the Standard of TasteVol. 27
- p. 217Uniform principles of taste in human nature; variation from individual humours.read · scan
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingVol. 37
- p. 353Human nature is uniform across nations and ages; the same motives and passions always produce the same actions.read · scan
- p. 354Uniform human motives such as avarice, ambition and revenge let us reject travellers' tales of men without them.read · scan
- p. 355–356Varied conduct, sexes and ages yield maxims still presupposing a regularity in human character.read · scan
- p. 357–358Human character is somewhat inconstant, yet inner motives operate uniformly beneath seeming caprice.read · scan
- p. 372–373Men and philosophers in active life are governed by the same maxims as the vulgar.read · scan
- p. 402Man is a known being whose motives and inclinations cohere according to nature's laws, permitting inference about his works.read · scan
Edmund Burke, On Taste: Introductory DiscourseVol. 24
- p. 11Standards of reason and taste are held the same in all human creatures.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Prefaces to Various Volumes of PoemsVol. 39
- p. 282Poet's passions and thoughts are the general feelings of men, tied to moral sentiments and sensations.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of PoetryVol. 27
- p. 335Poetry creates actions according to the unchangeable forms of human nature as existing in the Creator's mind.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, CharacteristicsVol. 25
- p. 354–355The gospel preached in all dialects: Man is still Man.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter ScottVol. 25
- p. 440–441Costumes are transitory; man alone is perennial, and only depth about men gives lasting memory.read · scan
Thomas Babington Macaulay, MachiavelliVol. 27
- p. 379–380Distinguishing accidental and transitory from essential and immutable in human nature.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 279Human nature is everywhere the same, but the wilder, the more virtuous.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 164Mill's foresight rests on the laws of human nature.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Origin of SpeciesVol. 11
- p. 145Man himself, like his domestic animals, can endure the most different climates.read · scan
1d.Human nature as diverse and not reducible to one type
See also: Education 5b
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 57Men are near each other at birth; lives sunder them; only wisest and stupidest never change.read · scan
- p. 64–65Man reveals what is in him only when mourning one near to him.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 82–83Misanthropy springs from ignorance of human nature; few men are extremely good or evil, most lie in between.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 722Buddha sees human varieties, likened to lotuses at different heights, differing in defilement, faculties and disposition.read · scan
Plutarch, CoriolanusVol. 12
- p. 147–148Natural qualities need restraint by reason; character and nature considered.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 136A man is known as a man when seen; his goodness is discerned by the discerning.read · scan
- p. 161–162Men are all unwhole like patients; God made all men for felicity, and unhappiness comes from oneself alone.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 288Men despise, flatter and crouch before one another; character shows plainly in the eyes; the good are simple and benevolent.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 317–318Men must differ in natural gifts, as Solon, Xerxes, Melchisedec, because human society requires varied duties and estates.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of ChildrenVol. 32
- p. 29Unlike whelps, men are variable and easily changed by custom, opinion and passion, though natural disposition is hard to force.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 107Deformed persons, spurred by scorn, become bold, industrious and watchful; deformity may be an advantage in a great wit.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 369Character sketch of Donne's fancy, wit, judgment and pity for mankind's miseries.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 391–392Description of Herbert's person, gentle manner and gentlemanly bearing that won love and respect.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise RegainedVol. 4
- p. 371Satan doubts whether Christ is merely man, given more than human giftsread · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 19Educated people show no single label; they are all these things and judges of all, revealing a quality only when needed.read · scan
- p. 19–20Prefers the universal quality of a gentleman to specialist labels; man is full of wants and needs an upright man.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 131–132Men differ in strength as the child from David, the wren from the oxread · scan
John Dryden, Preface to Fables, Ancient and ModernVol. 39
- p. 157The temper and natural inclinations of authors show in their works.read · scan
- p. 163–164Chaucer's comprehensive nature captures the manners, humors and characters of the whole English nation, each distinct.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 44–45God stamps characters on men's minds that can be mended but hardly transformed into their contrary.read · scan
- p. 48Men and children alike are chameleons taking tincture from what is near, doing most by example.read · scan
- p. 84–85Minds differ in temperament as faces do, and innate character is most visible in children before dissembling.read · scan
William Penn, More Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 388–389Men project their own character onto others, as the jaundiced see everyone yellow.read · scan
- p. 395Human motives are a maze; no one can speculate others' reasons reliably.read · scan
Jonathan Swift, Hints towards an Essay on ConversationVol. 27
- p. 91Nature leaves every man a capacity to be agreeable, though not to shine in company.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Life of Addison, 1672-1719Vol. 27
- p. 176–177Addison's modesty and timid taciturnity contrast with his high merit and success in office.read · scan
- p. 177–178Addison's character: charming in familiar company, stiffly silent with strangers, modest yet self-esteeming, deeply knowing the human heart.read · scan
David Hume, Of the Standard of TasteVol. 27
- p. 218Temper and disposition determine sympathy with an author, as with a friend.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to ConquerVol. 18
- p. 217–218Marlow's character is shaped by seclusion in college and inn, lacking the confidence society teaches.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 199The nature of man is intricate, and human passions complicate abstract rights.read · scan
- p. 227Man is by constitution a religious animal, whose mind will not endure a void.read · scan
- p. 316True legislators studied human nature and the diversities of men produced by habit, birth, education, profession and property.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Introduction to the PropyläenVol. 39
- p. 264–265Every man is an individual leaning to one side and develops by seeking what opposes his nature.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 310–311Nature fashions the human mind and the various parts of man.read · scan
- p. 311–312Nature forms the varied kinds of men, from laborers to divines, in a humorous account of human types.read · scan
- p. 321–323Satirical portraits of vain coxcomb and dull, self-satisfied men contrasted with the erratic muses' sons.read · scan
- p. 338–339Man is a puzzling problem of depths and shallows, good and evil; no system, not even Pope's ruling passion, defines him.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 428–429Tell says he was not made by nature for a shepherd; restless spirit.read · scan
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of ManVol. 32
- p. 254Man's crude strength and refined weakness call for opposite kinds of beauty.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 315Man's various nature, intellect, heart, imagination and body, requires varied occupation to grow.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 54Portrait of Father Cristoforo, whose face shows a struggle between natural disdain and humility.read · scan
- p. 139–141Physical description reads character from face and bearing, showing a singular, divided personality.read · scan
- p. 144The Signora's restrained public manner versus unrestrained private conduct shows a hidden, unhappy character needing explanation.read · scan
- p. 169'Such a strange medley is the human heart': the Prince's mixed coercion and real affection.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 278–279Beatrice's nature joined energy with gentleness; her crimes were a mask circumstances put on her.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of PoetryVol. 27
- p. 329Man is likened to an instrument, yet with an internal principle producing harmony from impressions.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter ScottVol. 25
- p. 408Scott as the old Border fighter in new dress; latent capacities slumber in many men.read · scan
Thomas Babington Macaulay, MachiavelliVol. 27
- p. 365The man is an enigma of incongruous qualities interwoven in one strong mind.read · scan
- p. 381Portrays a complex human character, at once cruel and sympathetic, enterprising and timid.read · scan
Victor Hugo, Preface to CromwellVol. 39
- p. 376–377Cromwell portrayed as a complex being of contraries: good and evil, grotesque and sublime, hypocrite and fanatic, homo et vir.read · scan
- p. 381–382The dramatist should delineate a man among men, with temperament, genius, beliefs, passions, tastes and habits interacting.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 87–88For each gain man loses something else; man is balanced by nature.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The PoetVol. 5
- p. 162Man is only half himself, the other half is his expression; all men need expression and an interpreter.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, MannersVol. 5
- p. 218Men as ridiculous little creatures of indeterminate aspect, seeming good or bad according to how called; puzzles even the gods whether fundamentally good or bad.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersVol. 5
- p. 262–263Men are not two classes but one man in two moods; every man has visitations of a diviner presence.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 285We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character; we see only what we are.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, BeautyVol. 5
- p. 305–306Man is physically and metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, a misfit inheriting unequally from good and bad ancestors.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 156Conformity stunts and dwarfs human nature; variety of character matters to man and society.read · scan
- p. 169Mill attacks regarding human character differences between individuals, races and sexes as innate; circumstances produce them.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, On LibertyVol. 25
- p. 260–262Humans are not like sheep; they differ in sources of pleasure, pain and spiritual constitution.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1098–1100Every creature has two soul-sides, public and private.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 141Nicholas is portrayed as huge and strong but ignorant, unable to read or write.read · scan
- p. 158Character sketches of the Scotchman and the Austrian Schmidt: conceit, thrift, propriety preached but drunkenness practiced.read · scan
- p. 158–159Schmidt is intelligent and good-natured; the English seaman is hearty and generous yet drunken and dissolute.read · scan
- p. 180Sketches of the crew's varied nationalities, characters and histories, including a dissipated young man reduced to wages.read · scan
- p. 269Describes the boy's refined nature and slight mental deficiency, of uncertain cause.read · scan
Henry David Thoreau, WalkingVol. 28
- p. 416Men are alike yet made various; individual excellence matters for high uses, and not all are fit subjects for civilization.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 112–113Humans are human only insofar as sensitive; honor is proportioned to passion.read · scan
Walter Bagehot, John MiltonVol. 28
- p. 170–171Human temperaments differ by nature, with a protective instinct to shun what may tempt.read · scan
- p. 172–173Men are not formed on one ideal type; human nature is too various to fit a single definition.read · scan
- p. 175Milton's strong nature and moral tenacity; his character described as severe yet cheerful company.read · scan
- p. 186Analyzes the austere character's tendency to isolation and excessive party spirit, illustrated by Burke and Milton.read · scan
Hippolyte Taine, Introduction to the History of English LiteratureVol. 39
- p. 410Behind every document lies a man; only individuals are real, not creeds or languages.read · scan
- p. 414Earlier thought knew man in the abstract but not men; souls show infinite diversity, and peoples' moral organization is distinct.read · scan
- p. 419Man reduced to images of objects that develop toward general conception or action; small differences yield vast diversity.read · scan
Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel PepysVol. 28
- p. 287Man as a Protean animal who changes with company; these changes are the better part of his education in the world.read · scan
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