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" ... the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave ; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 123
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Ideals of Science & Faith

James Edward Hand - 1904 - 364 pages
...of the end they were achieving ; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can...
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The Independent Review, Volume 1

Edward Jenks - 1904 - 722 pages
...of the end they were achieving ; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can...
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Ideals of Science & Faith: Essays by Various Authors

James Edward Hand - 1904 - 368 pages
...labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human i58 genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can...
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Ideals of Science & Faith

James Edward Hand - 1904 - 366 pages
...Ethical^Approach genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and-'that the, .whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on f the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can...
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American Character

Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 pages
...temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of despair can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built." Such...
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Philosophical Essays

Bertrand Russell - 1910 - 202 pages
...of the end they were achieving ; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can...
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Civilisation at the Cross Roads: Four Lectures Delivered Before Harvard ...

John Neville Figgis - 1912 - 328 pages
...intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration,...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can...
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Foundations: A Statement of Christian Belief in Terms of Modern Thought

Burnett Hillman Streeter - 1912 - 560 pages
...temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundations of unyielding despair, can...
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The Value and Destiny of the Individual: The Gifford Lectures for 1912 ...

Bernard Bosanquet - 1913 - 378 pages
...59 ff. ; and compare quotation from Wallace, p. 238, above. x "THE FIRM FOUNDATION OF DESPAIR" 319 of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration,...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can...
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The Philosophy of Religion

George Galloway - 1914 - 632 pages
...procession of the great year."2 And a contemporary thinker expresses himself in the same strain. " That all the labours of the ages, all the devotion,...philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand." 3 The message of naturalism, it would seem, is, that the final destiny of man is determined by the...
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