 | 1923 - 740 pages
...which he circulâtes, we will have no more trouble. But it may recur. Others may find a better way. There is danger there — a very real danger to humanity....What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become ? " Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair. " 1 think... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Detective and mystery stories - 1927 - 336 pages
...which he circulates, we will have no more trouble. But it may recur. Others may find a better way. There is danger there — a very real danger to humanity....What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?" Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair. "I think there... | |
 | Christopher Redmond - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 209 pages
...is critical of the scientists' efforts to restore youth and prolong life chemically. In his warning that "the material, the sensual, the worldly would...spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher," one of course sees the thoughts of Doyle the spiritualist. Is the story then to be taken as a warning... | |
 | Daniel Pick - History - 1989 - 292 pages
...about the charlatans of science and the unknown dangers they may pose to human identity and society: There is danger there - a very real danger to humanity....What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? (pp. 1,082-3) To envisage the loss of 'our world' in this period was almost axiomatically to envisage... | |
 | Philip A. Shreffler - Fiction - 1989 - 436 pages
...of the effects of H. Lowenstein's monkey serum on Professor Presbury, 53 "There is danger there—a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that...worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The Mystery of the Early Retirement has not yet been solved. Why did Sherlock Holmes retire from active... | |
 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle - Fiction - 1993 - 406 pages
...which he circulates, we will have no more trouble. But it may recur. Others may find a better way. There is danger there — a very real danger to humanity....What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become ? " Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair. - I think... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - Political Science - 1988 - 252 pages
...it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny. . . . Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual,...What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become. Nearly every attempt to transcend the human is aimed at the individual — at liberating his potential,... | |
 | James B. Stockdale - Biography & Autobiography - 2013 - 252 pages
...materialists, the sensualists, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would now avoid the call to something higher. It would be the...What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?" That is what I learned in prison and what I believe. Thank you. ANDERSONVILLE MEMORIAL DAY SPEECH 1994... | |
 | Arthur Herman - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...preventing "natural" death or extending "unnatural" life, leads to this sober speculation: There is a danger there — a very real danger to humanity. Consider,...the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. ... It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?... | |
 | Laura Otis - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 230 pages
...public fears of degeneration: "When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. ... There is danger there — a very real danger to humanity....the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives ... It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"... | |
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But it may recur. Others may find a better way. There is danger there — a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material] the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to... 
