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... by themselves there is little beauty to be seen in two parallel straight iron lines running through the country-side, but conceive of them as railway lines, adequately and without any unnecessary waste of material performing the office for which they were made, and few sights can be more charged with the very essence of beauty. The purpose that underlies the construction and the complete fulfilment of that purpose ...

— A History of Giggleswick School - From its Foundation 1499 to 1912 • Edward Allen Bell

... proposition that there was in Greece an age of unreasoning credulity! It is like employing Jove to turn a spit or to set up tenpins. Everywhere, save in a single direction, and that of secondary importance with respect to antique thought, he practises the same enormous waste of material. Socrates is a mere block in his way, which he treats with nothing finer than a crow-bar. Socrates had set a higher value on ethical philosophy, derived from the consciousness of man, than on physical science; consequently, Dr. Draper's choice must be between ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various

... the least "economical." The waste of life, the waste of material, the waste of time and effort, are prodigious, yet she achieves her ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Words linked to "Waste of material" : waste, wastefulness, dissipation