 The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - 第478页1853全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1980 - 744 页
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 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 页
..."reached his point of failure," and imperfection was "in some sort essential to all we know of life, . . . the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change." 5 But progress and change were, as Ruskin and most Victorians realized, not necessarily synonymous... | |
 | 1979 - 434 页
...at nature to learn that imperfection (savageness) is both inevitable and desirable: [I]mperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom,— is a type of the life of this world. . . . All things are literally... | |
 | Pierre Fontaney - 1989 - 276 页
...but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. § 25. The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. lt is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing... | |
 | Leon Chai - 1990 - 296 页
...it admits simultaneously the possibility of imperfection at each level. Yet for Ruskin imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. . . . And in all things that live there are certain irregularities and deficiencies which are not only... | |
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