...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. (Conrad 1972: 7) Indeed, as Nietzsche has remarked against Hegel, in The Advantage and Disadvantage...

...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."94 To contemporary sensibility, the passage reads like an ironic observation skewering imperialist...

...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...

...studies criticism implicitly understands what Conrad has Marlow call the redeeming "idea" of empire ("An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea") behind the brutish part of empire as precisely this ideal of an expanding modern subjectivity. This...

...the equivocal language of idolatry in which it culminates — that is, Marlow's praise for a belief "you can set up and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to" — but also by the peroration on the virtue of British "efficiency" that introduces it (ibid., 10)....

...ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow before, and offer a sacrifice to. . . .66 Later, he reports a journalist's assessment of the character...

...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" (1.9-10). The passage is recalled when we hear of "the tremor of far-off drums ... as profound a meaning...

...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." Marlow's 'unselfish belief is clearly synonymous with what Jeffrey Richards describes as Elgar's own...

...Conrad's Marlow in Heart of Darkness (1899), who famously asserts that "What redeems [imperial conquest] is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a...up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to" (10). 75. Arnold Bennett, Author's Craft, 27. 76. Arnold Bennett, Old Wives' Tale, 1 1 7. 77. Ibid.,...

...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...the idea — something you can set up, and bow down befote, and offer sacrifice to ... (HD, 7) And we, Conradian critics, or faithful readers of Blackwood's...