 Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow...  Moral Philosophy: The Critical View of Life - Side 291af Warner Fite - 1925 - 320 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 498 sider
...later tumble pell-mell and headlong. Of course "scientific method" lands us in the wildest skepticism : '"Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day," etc. If not quite beyond doubt,... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1920 - 394 sider
...and Logic, remarkable alike for its noble and moving prose and for its stoical attitude, declares: "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gates of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble... | |
 | State University of New York at Buffalo - 1920 - 110 sider
...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,... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1921 - 370 sider
...hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1921 - 376 sider
...hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1921 - 376 sider
...hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is Man's life ; on him and all...gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of... | |
 | Hugh Edward Millington Stutfield - 1921 - 280 sider
...and misery such as would have rejoiced the heart of St. Augustine. " Brief and powerless," he says, " is Man's life ; on him and all his race the slow,...gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day." Earthly existence, for him, is... | |
 | 1921 - 238 sider
...death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all...himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day: disdaining the... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1921 - 292 sider
...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... | |
 | George Warren Richards - 1923 - 356 sider
...weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. . . . Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day.6 "Russell is described by HE Fosdick... | |
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