Chapter 5분사

Then I also think of the full grown gourds, which can be seen on the thatched roofs of the country houses, the red peppers drying in mats along the road and the delicious apples, pears, persimmons and grapes to be found in abundance in shops both large and small.

Then there is the irresistible scent of chestnuts being roasted over charcoal fires on carts along the street.

A sad-faced man came into my flower shop early one morning. I was ready to take his order for a funeral piece, but this time I guessed wrong. He wanted a basket of flowers sent to wife for their wedding anniversary. "And what day will that be?" I asked. Glumly he replied, "Yesterday." 

Having invented machinery, men has become enslaved by it, as he was long ago enslaved by the gods created by his imagination. It is machinery which has allowed women and children to enter the factory and which at the same time has disorganized the family and the home.

Our senses, by an effect almost mechanical, are passive to the impression of outward objects, whether agreeable or offensive, but the mind, possessed of a self-directing power, may turn its attention to whatever it thinks proper.

Being stupid and having no imagination, animals often behave far more sensibly than men. Efficiently and by instinct they do the right, appropriate thing at the right moment --- eat when they are hungry, look for water when they feel thirsty, rest or play when they have leisure.

Uncontrolled, the forces of nature may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered, they can be bent to man's will and desire. Today, for instance, electricity is man's humble servant, performing a thousand tasks with tremendous efficiency.

In short, we all go through life wearing glasses colored by our own tastes, our own calling, and our own prejudices, measuring our neighbors by our own standards, summing them up according to our own private arithmetic. We see subjectively, not objectively; what we are capable of seeing, not what there is to be seen.

The first star to come out in the evening is called the Evening Star, but, strictly speaking, it is not a star at all; it is a planet. Planets are different from the stars. They do not give off any light of their own but shine by reflecting the sunlight that falls on them. There are nine of these planets travelling around the sun, the earth being one of them.

With their minds fixed on the future, Americans found themselves surrounded with ample land and resources and troubled by a shortage of labor and skill. They set much value on technological knowledge and inventiveness which would unlock the riches of the country and open the door to a glorious future.

To save embarrassment to people still living l have given to the people who play a part in this story names of my own making, and I have in other ways taken pains to make sure that no one should recognize them.

No one can help influencing others, however little he may wish to do so or how little he may be conscious of what he is doing. None can be neutral: if he is not doing good, he will in some sense be doing harm.

It goes without saying that when we read the lives of great men we cannot but be struck by the manner in which all kinds of experiences that might in themselves seem to be random, or even disastrous are made use of in the long run.

The great inventions of Thomas A. Edison were the fruit of long and painstaking effort. " Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration," was the way he explained his success.

He also said: " I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

She had never enjoyed the game more thoroughly. The thing that mattered was the game itself rather than winning it. Even being beaten did not matter.

The English people think that there are no other men like themselves, and no other world but England; they scarcely see a handsome foreigner but they say that he looks like an Englishman;

and they cannot set any delicious food before a foreigner without asking if such a thing is made in his country.

We live in the kind of world in which there is no possibility of order without concern for the right of others, which means that there must always be restraints, which means that simple freedom, far from being a natural right, is obviously irrational.