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Truth, the main-spring of modern nations, has promise of the whole world: and if the love of country has sent forth nations of heroes, this love so much broader and more sublime, will produce the civilization of mankind. —

Archive 2003-05-01 2003

Truth, the main-spring of modern nations, has promise of the whole world: and if the love of country has sent forth nations of heroes, this love so much broader and more sublime, will produce the civilization of mankind. —

Women's Sphere of Influence on Civilization (1837) 2003

No. We are complicated machines: and though we have one main-spring, that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometimes stop that motion.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

In his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker wrote that “the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is the main-spring of human activity—activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.”

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

In his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker wrote that “the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is the main-spring of human activity—activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.”

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

In his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker wrote that “the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is the main-spring of human activity—activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.”

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

If the disturbance be intended by its main-spring to subside quietly, the conspirators are allowed to take their own way; they will drink copiously, become lions about midnight, and recover their hare-hearts before noon next day.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Education is the main-spring of progress and Quebec is setting up a system which, when applied to its young people, will produce the greatest new outpouring of modernly trained talent in Canada's history.

The Coming Revolution in Telecommunications 1969

In a sense she was the motive and main-spring of my life, for it was she who embarked me on that career of adventure which has made me what I am.

In Direst Peril David Christie Murray

These watches are pretty to look upon, beautiful, magnificent, but they are stopped, the interior is out of order, the main-spring is broken, the hands that run across the face lie.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals