To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, • and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country, from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air. By the aggregate... Complete Works - Seite 21von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 Seiten
...bolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon! In the decade before 1844 Emerson repeatedly draws upon the facts of technological progress to illustrate... | |
| Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 Seiten
...University Press, 1980. Vol. 3. S. 565, 49-52. 438 Vgl. Marx, The Machine in the Garden. S. 230. try, from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air." 439 Emersons Glaube an die mögliche Harmonisierung seines technokratischen Wunschdenkens mit den Kräften... | |
| Erin McKenna, Andrew Light - 2004 - 296 Seiten
...yEolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon! (12-13) As this passage shows, Emerson, like the pragmatists after him, celebrates the unique power... | |
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