"Dehumanised" Quotes from Famous Books
... his own fallacy. He must needs try his hand at the synthetic method though he forbids it to the rest of the world: but the only deductive hint which he has as yet given to mankind is, quaintly enough, the most unnatural "eidolon specus" which ever entered the head of a dehumanised pedant—namely, that once famous "Preventive Check," which, if a nation did ever apply it—as it never will— could issue, as every doctor knows, in nothing less than the questionable habits of ... — Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley |