 That wretched-looking hand-tentacle sticking out of its jar seemed to have a sort of limp appeal for lost possibilities ; it haunts me still, although, of course, it is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving...  The Strand Magazine - 28 psl.redagavo - 1901Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Herbert George Wells - 1901 - 382 psl.
...able to see more of this aspect of their wonderful social order. That wretched-looking hand-tentacle sticking out of its jar seemed to have a sort of limp...and then making machines of them. " Quite recently, too—I think it was on the eleventh or twelfth visit I made to this apparatus—I had a curious light... | |
 | Van Wyck Brooks - 1915 - 202 psl.
...dwarfed to fit them for fine work, "a really more humane proceeding," as Mr. Cavor observes, "than our method of leaving children to grow into human beings and then making machines of them." And in The Great State he returns to his attack on government by experts : "Whatever else may be worked... | |
 | Floyd Dell - 1919 - 218 psl.
...able to see more of this aspect of their wonderful social order. That wretched looking hand-tentacle sticking out of its jar seemed to have a sort of limp...into human beings and then making machines of them." . The Lunar system has indeed much to be said for it; and the capitalist plan of wage-slave education... | |
 | Floyd Dell - 1921 - 226 psl.
...able to see more of this aspect of their wonderful social order. That wretched looking hand-tentacle sticking out of its jar seemed to have a sort of limp...into human beings and then making machines of them." The Lunar system has indeed much to be said for it; and the capitalist plan of wage-slave education... | |
 | John Huntington - 1982 - 230 psl.
...aspect of this wonderful social order. That wretched-looking hand sticking out of its jar seemed to appeal for lost possibilities; it haunts me still,...into human beings, and then making machines of them. (pp. 240-41) The satire works by playing off against each other two unsatisfactory alternatives.6 Against... | |
 | John Batchelor - 1985 - 470 psl.
...cold-blooded sanity compared with the way in which human society treats its workingclass children: 'it is really in the end a far more humane proceeding...into human beings, and then making machines of them' (ch. 24). The ambivalence intensifies as we learn Cavor's unenviable fate: he is unwise enough to tell... | |
 | Daniel Albright - 1997 - 324 psl.
...the rest of the body is starved. . . . That wretched-looking hand sticking out of its jar seemed to appeal for lost possibilities; it haunts me still,...into human beings, and then making machines of them. (p. 241) The bottle, then, functions as a man-distorter, a metamorphic device for atrophy and hypertrophy... | |
 | Margaret Buckley, Brian Buckley - 2004 - 272 psl.
...hand-tentacle sticking out of its jar seemed to have a sort of limp appeal for lost possibilities; and it haunts me still, although, of course, it is really...into human beings, and then making machines of them. 23 Towards the end of the first phase of romances, in 1904, came "The Country of the Blind" which Wells... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 2005 - 428 psl.
...able to see more of this aspect of their wonderful social order. That wretched-looking hand-tentacle sticking out of its jar seemed to have a sort of limp...into human beings and then making machines of them. (Emphasis mine) The problem that Wells so sharply outlined in those last words is still with us. All... | |
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