| James Edward Hand - 1904 - 366 sivua
...fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the j same tragedy with ourselves. And so, when their s day is over, when their good and their evil have become...Man, ^condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow i himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls,... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1907 - 548 sivua
...paper no such hope lights np the prospect. ' Brief and powerless is man's life,' he says on p. 169. ' On him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls...omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way ; for man,' he cries, ' it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his... | |
| Ralph Barton Perry - 1912 - 416 sivua
...prevision of the end they were achieving," then it must follow that his life is "brief and powerless," that "on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark." 1 J. Arthur Thomson and Patrick Geddes: "A Biological Approach," in Idealt of Science and Faith, edited... | |
| 1918 - 624 sivua
...the universe, Mr. Russell in his moral and spiritual widowhood performs suttee after this fashion: "Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter... | |
| John Neville Figgis - 1912 - 328 sivua
...belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life." "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race that slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent... | |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1917 - 336 sivua
...Bertrand Russell's candid disclosure of the consequences of his own scepticism : "Brief and power- \ less is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure...Man condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow him/ self to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains onjy to cherish, ere yet the blow falls,... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 256 sivua
...become eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to feel that, where they suffered, where i they failed, no deed of ours was the cause ; but wherever...; for Man, condemned! to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrcw himself to pass \ A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish,... | |
| Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) - 1918 - 72 sivua
...defeat democracy in the end. A few words of Bertrand Russell's will trenchantly bring out this fact: "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter 33 rolls on its relentless way." "All the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration,... | |
| State University of New York at Buffalo - 1920 - 110 sivua
...with the gloomy pages of Mr. Russell's famous essay on "The Free Man's Worship". The essay ends thus : "Brief and powerless is Man's life : on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gates of darkness, it remains only to cherish,... | |
| Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1921 - 292 sivua
...obsession by it. But mental habit is strong. Thus even Russell, in a materialistic vein, finds that " blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way." 8 We have to express our disappointment on noting this orgy. Such conduct seems unworthy of a " logical... | |
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