 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
 | 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... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 sivua
...meaning is the world which science reveals for our belief. . . That man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving, that...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... | |
 | 1919 - 506 sivua
...But science shows no parallel to the disparity of cause and effect involved in supposing Man to be the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving, or in regarding his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, as but the outcome of accidental collocations... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1920 - 38 sivua
...against God. He proclaims the moral bankruptcy of naturalism, which he yet holds to be forced upon us. ' That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 498 sivua
...ennoble his little day," etc. If not quite beyond doubt, no philosophy can hope to stand which questions *"That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcomes of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and... | |
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