It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?


Essays: First Series (1841) - Self-Reliance


It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in...

It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in...

It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in...

It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in...