
The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)
Other works
Source: The Ghosts and Other Lectures
The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)
Other works
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 35.
Gavin Stevens in Ch. 8
The two lines quoted — not altogether accurately — are from A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896), XVIII:<p>And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain.
The Town (1957)
As reprinted in Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness (1964; 2014 ebook), ISBN 978-1-101-13722-2, p. 44 https://books.google.com/books?id=d1GqjIhRejMC&pg=PT44.
"Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice" (1963)
Is Divorce Wrong? (1889)
Context: Marriages are made by men and women; not by society; not by the state; not by the church; not by supernatural beings. By this time we should know that nothing is moral that does not tend to the well-being of sentient beings; that nothing is virtuous the result of which is not good. We know now, if we know anything, that all the reasons for doing right, and all the reasons against doing wrong, are here in this world.
“The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.”
The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer (18 October 1890)
The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer (1890 and 1891)
“Old rights must remain: it would be very unreasonable if it should be otherwise.”
Mayor, &c. of Colchester v. Seaber (1765), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1872.
And is not this Medium the same with that Medium by which Light is refracted and reflected and by whose Vibrations Light communicates Heat to Bodies, and is put into Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission? ...And do not hot Bodies communicate their Heat to contiguous cold ones, by the Vibrations of this Medium propagated from them into the cold ones? And is not this Medium exceedingly more rare and subtile than the Air, and exceedingly more elastick and active? And doth it not readily pervade all Bodies? And is it not (by its elastick force) expanded through all the Heavens?
Query 18
Opticks (1704)
Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)
Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (c. 1230-1235)