 ... 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
 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1918 - 322 pages
...inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast depth of the solar system, and that the whole temple of...philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand." ' " Blind to good and evil, reckless of 1 r'rilotophical Essays, pp. 60-61. destruction, omnipotent... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1918 - 582 pages
...temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in rums — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are...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... | |
 | 1919 - 506 pages
...thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave : that all the labours of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all...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... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 pages
...to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of man's achievements must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a...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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1919 - 254 pages
...buried beneath the d6bris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond <lispute, are yet so nearly certain, that 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... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1920 - 38 pages
...of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages,...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 - 1920 - 640 pages
...procession of the great year." * 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... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1921 - 292 pages
...Bertrand Russell warns us that no compensations are to be expected beyond the grave. He decides ". . . that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought...dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy that rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1921 - 376 pages
...intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors 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... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1921 - 376 pages
...intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors 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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