| Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 sivua
...heart of this generation; they are as poignant and almost as lyrical as the words of the Rubaiyat: "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of the accidental collocation of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| Burnett Hillman Streeter - 1912 - 560 sivua
...Science presents to-day as that within which human ideals must find a home is wilder and more fearful. " That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his-beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| 1918 - 624 sivua
...Co. Mr. Russell's philosophy is an attempt to build "on the firm foundation of unyielding despair." Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving. His origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental... | |
| Ralph Barton Perry - 1912 - 408 sivua
...must renounce hope of possessing it in the end. of Faith Thus Mr. Russell apparently infers that if "Man is the product of causes which had no 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,... | |
| Bernard Bosanquet - 1913 - 378 sivua
...smiled; and when he saw that Man had become perfect in renunciation and worship, he sent another sun into the sky, which crashed into Man's sun, and all returned...and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collections of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve... | |
| Stanley Alfred Mellor - 1914 - 274 sivua
...scientific view' presented, for example, in the considered verdict that what science tells us is simply ' that man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity... | |
| Rufus Matthew Jones - 1916 - 230 sivua
...two extracts : "Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves...but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the... | |
| Rufus Matthew Jones - 1916 - 228 sivua
...character of this materialistic universe from the writings of Bertrand Russell. Here are two extracts : "Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental... | |
| Thomas Slater - 1918 - 84 sivua
...antecedent circumstances. Patriots who thought they were dying for their country's freedom simply could prevision of the end they were achieving; that his...but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms. In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to a tyranny of outside forces. It is only in imagination... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1918 - 634 sivua
...it the very negation of such a thing, a mere game, ultra-Mephistophelian in its meaninglessness. ' That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity... | |
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