 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
 | earl John Francis Stanley Russell Russell - 1923 - 398 sider
...the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built. " 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... | |
 | Joseph Alexander Leighton - 1923 - 606 sider
...Nay, the cosmos grinds these dreams to powder with man their maker. "Brief and powerless is man 's life ; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. " 20 " The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 sider
...firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built. . . . " 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... | |
 | 1925 - 304 sider
...Most of them would probably express themselves in the pathetic language of BERTRAND RUSSELL : — " Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all...race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark." . . . "The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1925 - 140 sider
...who could not see beyond the portals of the tomb. Underwood Bertrand Russell Predicament of Evolution "Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all...race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. . . . The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by... | |
 | Ernest Jerome Johanson - 1925 - 296 sider
...and powerless lo lían' в life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom fall pitiless and^dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on Its relentless way »"(2) and "the whole temple of Lían' в achievement must Inevitably be burled beneath the debris... | |
 | Sherwood Eddy - 1926 - 264 sider
...inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins . . . Brief and powerless is Alan's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom...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... | |
 | Samuel Daniel Schmalhausen - 1927 - 366 sider
...poet, philosopher, mathematician, educator, inspirer of youth, a Socrates to the Younger Generation! "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... | |
 | Walter Clarke Phillips, William Garrett Crane, Frank Rawley Byers - 1928 - 556 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... | |
 | John Baillie - 1928 - 506 sider
...on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built." "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." Such then are the outlines of... | |
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