“... book with that title, Frederic Knight Hunt wrote: ‘Where Journals are numerous, the people have power, intelligence and wealth; where Journals are few, the many are in reality merely slaves.’ Professor Koss drily comments: ‘A dubious correlation, it was nevertheless widely posited by reformers of that day.’ There can be no doubt that a new era in the ...”

“... to come in throughout Mackenzie’s writing career, many from unexpectedly distinguished sources. Henry James may well have been influenced by Mackenzie’s good looks. He had been so swept away by Rupert Brooke’s appearance that it had been quite a relief to be told he was not a very good poet. But about Mackenzie he was rhapsodic, considering him by far ...”

“... last of his tribe), equally ancient Dutchman (the last of his line), and the crew of a vessel from Henry Hudson’s fleet that disappeared in 1609, were so compelling to intellectuals that they inspired an international movement to stop the mountain (and presumably its ancient ghosts) from being quarried. None of this has much to do with Anderson’s ...”

“... had done a great deal to further the careers of two young writers who became his closest friends, Henry James and Mark Twain. He published much of their early fiction and reviewed them in other magazines. He opened the Atlantic to Southern writers in the aftermath of the Civil War; and at Harper’s, where his power was ...”

“... though not only there. Long after he had stopped writing novels we find Forster explaining why Henry James fell short of his ideal: ‘There is no philosophy in the novels, no religion (except an occasional touch of superstition), no prophecy, no benefit for the superhuman at all.’ Forster’s novels contain, in some form, all the ingredients cited as ...”

“... danger of getting too highbrow. He had discovered ‘how mysteriously independent of myself is my power of expression’, and again and again one has the sense of books that are struggling to get themselves written by a man who with one part of his personality desperately wants to write different books. The Preface to The Nigger is a serious but not very ...”

“... under passionate grimaces what he knew about himself: namely what was lacking in Carlyle – real power of intellect, real depth of intellectual perception, in short, philosophy.’ But Hartman is able to use Carlyle as a springboard to American ‘revisionist’ romantic critics of the last twenty years, notably the ‘Teufelsdröckhian’ Harold Bloom ...”

“... of Moral Philosophy and proponent of Christian Socialism. Carpenter was also friendly with Henry Fawcett and the mathematician W.K. Clifford (not R.K., as Tsuzuki has it); he also began reading Walt Whitman. After journeying to Italy, and experiencing with Whitman’s verse a whole array of new thoughts (and new doubts), Carpenter came to find the ...”

“... as a way of protecting their reputations. In another of Koole’s case studies, the neurologist Henry Head writes to Ruth Mayhew, to whom he will soon become engaged. As he sits alone at his desk, her ‘vivid presence’ is so tangible to him that he can barely set words on the page. Mere ‘written words’ seem inadequate ‘when offered to the ...”

“... wrote his book principally to do what he is so good at: putting faces and characters to men in power – in this case, the men in charge of international banking – and describing the political machinations they get involved in. Nevertheless, so important is the thesis that international banks have become dangerously overcommitted in lending to developing ...”

“... notation signified the dignitates or ‘attributes’ of God – Goodness, Magnitude, Eternity, Power, Wisdom, Will, Strength, Truth and Glory – each of which was assigned a letter from B to K. Enmeshed with these, in a way which Yates did not fully understand in her first article, were the four elements, confusingly labelled A, B, C and D. Some five ...”

“... future forms’. Moreover, ‘each thought of a poet contains enormous potential force, like the power confined in a piece of coal or in a living cell, but infinitely more subtle, imponder able and potent’. Emotion is an organ of knowledge, and humanity, as it is being purified in the fire of love, is evolving into something higher than itself. All of ...”

“... produce much smaller numbers. With the most famous artillerist of them all, Napoleon Bonaparte, in power, success might have seemed assured. But pragmatism and compromise with existing vested interests were now the order of the day, not state-imposed uniformity. Napoleon, for example, abandoned the metric system, symbol of Revolutionary, rational ...”

“... roles which cramp play. Educational and Social MOOs, in fact, remain spin-offs. Games are what power innovation on the Internet. The market is huge and growing uncontrollably. It’s thought that this year American consumers will spend more on electronic entertainment than on buying movie tickets. Twenty years ago there was no electronic games ...”

“... speech, for example, were entrusted entirely to elected representatives of the popular will like Henry Hyde and Trent Lott. But that doesn’t prove they’re right. The question concerns the relation between theories of justice and conceptions of institutional design. Waldron faults John Rawls for treating the institutional question only for the case of a ...”