 That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision 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 of atoms...  The Atlantic Monthly - Sivu 5231914Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 232 sivua
...presents for our belief. ^ Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1918 - 568 sivua
...Philosopher" is almost overwhelming. But then 'one turns over the pages and comes on this passage: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1918 - 582 sivua
...similar and not less impressive description of this cosmic spectacle is offered by Mr. Bertrand Russell: "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labor of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius,... | |
 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1918 - 322 sivua
...tendency very forcibly in his brilliant article on "The Free Man's Worship": "That man is the producT^of causes which had no prevision of the end they were...an individual life beyond the grave ; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles John Shebbeare - 1918 - 282 sivua
...our belief is a world without purpose, since — among other evidences of this want of purpose — man is ' the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving.' That man is the product of many unintelligent causes — of the particles of which his body is composed,... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - 468 sivua
...BERTRAND RUSSELL "Man is Yet Free to Examine, to Criticize, to Know, and in Imagination to Create" M AN is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end t!iey were achieving. His origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but... | |
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