The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the... Complete Works - Page 51by Joseph Conrad - 1903Full view - About this book
| Krishan Kumar - History - 2003 - 390 pages
...complexion or slightly flutter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back...but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea. (Conrad l995: 20) Whether or not the novel goes on to undermine even this defence of empire is an open... | |
| David A. Westbrook - Business & Economics - 2004 - 364 pages
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back...pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to ... l4 But the City... | |
| Amir Weiner - Social Science - 2003 - 364 pages
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down... | |
| James Swearingen, Joanne Cutting-Gray - Philosophy - 2003 - 274 pages
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down... | |
| Lissa Schneider - Difference - 2003 - 178 pages
...necessary — for the alternative is "too dark, too dark altogether" (123). Like Lingard, he strives for "an unselfish belief in the idea, something you can set up, and bow down before" (HD 10) — and Marlow, "with something like despair in [his] heart, but bowing [his] head before the... | |
| Mieke Bal - Criticism - 2004 - 402 pages
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back...up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to ..." In his account of his great river journey, Marlow extends the point to mark a distinction between... | |
| Ukoro Theophilus Igwe - Philosophy - 2004 - 524 pages
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back...set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to".98 Undoubtedly, as Nietzsche has remarked against Hegel, in The Advantage and Disadvantage of History... | |
| Gene M. Moore - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 pages
...noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems [conquest] is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a...up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to ... (HD, p. 7) The modern version of idol worship, it appears, is idea worship. Conrad suggests the... | |
| Gaile Sloan Cannella, Radhika Viruru - Education - 2004 - 194 pages
...it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea, and an unselfish belief in the idea —...set up and bow down before and offer a sacrifice to (quoted in Young 2001, p. 25) Perhaps we cannot avoid moral theorizing in some form. However, we are... | |
| Kathleen Eleanor Taylor - Psychology - 2004 - 338 pages
...became available; 9/11 was no exception. Religion and politics What redeems it is the idea only [...] and an unselfish belief in the idea — something...up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness In the post-Reformation West, religion and politics have tended to... | |
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