... 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 123edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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