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I felt that my suburban street, secluded in trees and unimportance, was as remote from the evil I knew of as though it were in Alaska. When I came to that street I could not see my neighbours' homes. It was with some doubt that I found my own.
In this immense ruin in the spot where, most of earth, man feels the significance of an individual life, or of the rapid years over which it extends, he had encountered, suddenly, the being who had coloured all his existence. He was reminded at once of the grand epoch of his life and of its utter unimportance. But these are the thoughts that would occur rather to us than him.
What is the gain if the means for reduction of the net labor cost reduces the profit more than the saving in labor? If doing so results in an actual loss of profit, why is it done? We can readily see that the overhopeful managers may disregard the risk of the money invested, but we cannot see why the relative importance, or rather unimportance, of the labor cost should be so disregarded.
Sometimes sleeves were closely fitted to people's arms, then puffs sprang from them and grew until they were enormous and required delicate manipulation when coats were put on; then their lavishness of material fell from the shoulder to the wrists and hung there swaying until some sudden development of skirt seemed to distract their attention from themselves and they shrank into unimportance and skirts changed instead.
Anyway I appreciate your saying it to me that way." The subject dropped then, went back to war and how men feel on the edge of death, of the unimportance of death anyway. Larry knocked at Ruth's door. It opened and a wan and pathetically drooping little figure stood before him.
And yet the whole of this biographical investigation, though natural and picturesque, is not wholly suitable to the Brontës. For the Brontë genius was above all things deputed to assert the supreme unimportance of externals. Up to that point truth had always been conceived as existing more or less in the novel of manners.
There was in this Journal little of interest. Apparently he had amused himself during his youth jotting down items of preposterous unimportance. "I saw a man with a red face," he would write one week. The next he would add a line, "There are seven hundred and eighty-five normal strides between the lamp-post and my front door."
I cannot here enter into the details of these instructions, which indeed would be unintelligible, but they showed me at first what I had not at all apprehended, namely the proportionate importance and unimportance of all the passions and emotions which regulate our relations with other souls.
The one thing that redeems the horror is that it does make a man momentarily big enough to be in sympathy with his Creator he gets such glimpses of Him in his fellows. There was a time when I thought it was rather up to God to explain Himself to the creatures He had fashioned since then I've acquired the point of view of a soldier. I've learnt discipline and my own total unimportance.
The Era of Imperialism dawned upon the United States in 1898. Daylight broke in 1914, and the night of isolation and of international unimportance gave place to a new day of imperial power. Plutocracy in the Saddle The rapid sweep across a new continent had placed the resources of the United States in the hands of a powerful minority.
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