a boundless grinding collision of the New with the Old.
Echoes the clash between present and old values even seen today
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stronger Police, called Public Opinion. This last watches over us with its Argus eyes more keenly than ever; but the "inward eye" seems heavy with sleep.
Argus Eyes: illusion to an "all seeing" mythological giant with one hundred eyes
Personification of the public opinion as a immense creature that provides more incentive to follow the rules than any kind of inward moral compass.
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These preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves; advising peace or war, with an authority which only the first Reformers, and a long-past class of Popes, were possessed of; inflicting moral censure; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification; in all ways diligently "administering the Discipline of the Church."
idea of media taking over the role of the church: "preaching" giving moral advice
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Freedom, which all hearts venerate and long for, will of herself come to inhabit it; and under her healing wings every noxious influence will wither, every good and salutary one more and more expand.
Personification of freedom as a female entity who can wither all "noxious influences"
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saltpetre, pasteboard and catgut.
Potassium nitrate (often used in fireworks), cardboard like material and cord; all the components of fireworks
metaphysical philosophy has became more concerned with large showy displays of intelligence and learning rather than the pursuit of knowledge
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Thought, he is inclined to hold, is still secreted by the brain; but then Poetry and Religion (and it is really worth knowing) are "a product of the smaller intestines!"
attempt to localise knowledge about thought, poetry, and religion to a particular area. Once again, the idea that the studies into areas of knowledge that are not the natural sciences have became mechanical in nature when it is not possible to study this the same way we study other disciplines.
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rodomontade
Merriam Webster: Bragging speech
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Among ourselves, the Philosophy of Mind, after a rickety infancy, which never reached the vigour of manhood,
Personification of the philosophy of mind as something that must be nourished by thought and discussion to reach the "vigour of manhood"
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to which it is expected the stray agencies of Wisdom will swarm of their own accord, and hive and make honey.
Metaphor: "agencies of wisdom" will all move in the same way for the same purpose, loss of individuality. Furthers the idea that mankind has became governed by machines and has lost any sense of autonomy
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