...than a beast? By act 1v, scene iv, as Hamlet ponders Fortinbras' army, the idea is less paradoxical: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (1v, iv, 33-8) The scholastic echoes of this speech make clear that the calculation of...

...please you go, my lord? 30 HAMLET I'll be with you straight; go a little before. [Exeunt all but Hamlet. How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my...us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple 40 4,4 Of thinking too precisely...

...brother's blood. Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? (Ill, iii) 35 V 7 _ wq _ . ǹ V <r ) # DN ] } x7 Y { 4 ? ` = C # ء 0 ,v ד 0 7 in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely...

...man was, Zurowski thought. The question is still, for this Wittenberg student, how can I act nobly? What is a man If his chief good and market of his...us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Then why does Hamlet not act? Is he sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought? Now...

...divine in comparison with human life . . . reason, more than anything else, is man. In Shakespeare: What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd. In Goethe, "That glimmer of divine light— man calls it Reason." And in Immanuel Kant:...

...what it is to be a man is similarly muddy. Man is distinguished from beast by his inquiring intellect. What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (IV.iv.33-39) Yet, though bestial oblivion is a possible source of inaction, it is not...

...to each and every man the greatest good; such a life as yours must be, would, I think be glorious. What is [a] man If his chief good, and market of his...us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.14 One of my friends, rather an old lady and quite intelligent, has used all her influence,...

...(1825-1895) British biologist. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species," Science and Culture (1881). 6 What is a man If his chief good and market of his...us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 4, sc....

...war, war for pleasure, for the pure glory of it. But then out jumps another non sequitur soliloquy: How all occasions do inform against me And spur my...us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely...

...As hell where to it goes, My mother stays. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days (3.3: 73-96) ix. How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my...before and after, gave us not That capability and god like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it to be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple...