beaverish

He that is engrossed only in the future and would make it the only standard of value, he who has no patience with anything that interferes with practical utility -- and memory is certainly a source of such interference -- lacks the main ingredient of humanity and has something beaverish about him.

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

For the human shell is not merely geometrical and architectural, like those of apian or beaverish communities; it holds and expresses all those differences by which we are exalted above the bee or the beaver.

Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893

These, then, are our two careers for genius: mute Industrialism, which can seldom become very human, but remains beaverish mainly: and the three Professions named learned, -- that is to say, able to talk.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Whatsoever is not beaverish seems to go forth in the shape of talk.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

In essence the Physician's task is always heroic, eminently human: but in practice most unluckily at present we find it too become in good part _beaverish_; yielding a money-result alone.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

And what of it is not beaverish, -- does not that too go mainly to ingenious talking, publishing of yourself, ingratiating of yourself; a partly human exercise or waste of intellect, and alas a partly vulpine ditto; -- making the once sacred [Gr.] _'Iatros_, or Human

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Industrialisms are all of silent nature; and some of them are heroic and eminently human; others, again, we may call unheroic, not eminently human: _beaverish_ rather, but still honest; some are even _vulpine_, altogether inhuman and dishonest.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

These are our three professions that require human intellect in part or whole, not able to do with mere beaverish; and such a part does the gift of talk play in one and all of them.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

If the young aspirant is not rich enough for Parliament, and is deterred by the basilisks or otherwise from entering on Law or Church, and cannot altogether reduce his human intellect to the beaverish condition, or satisfy himself with the prospect of making money, -- what becomes of him in such case, which is naturally the case of very many, and ever of more?

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Rangers had to rely on some timely interventions in defence to prevent beaverish St Mirren working their way into some dangerous situations.

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