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Page 41
... lines of least resistance , my ten- dency to seek for ultimate physical principles as keys to complex phenomena " ( the italics are ours ) , " had shown itself . Apt thus to look at things , and prepared therefore to be especially recep ...
... lines of least resistance , my ten- dency to seek for ultimate physical principles as keys to complex phenomena " ( the italics are ours ) , " had shown itself . Apt thus to look at things , and prepared therefore to be especially recep ...
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... line with the mechanical theory . Hav- ing thus conjured himself back from a height of abstraction , avowedly devoid of all definite content , to definite content ad- mitting of analysis , we are not surprised to find Mr. Spencer ...
... line with the mechanical theory . Hav- ing thus conjured himself back from a height of abstraction , avowedly devoid of all definite content , to definite content ad- mitting of analysis , we are not surprised to find Mr. Spencer ...
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... line of demarcation be admitted as that which we have just seen Mr. Spencer to admit as existing between Conscious- ness on the one hand and material existence on the other , why may not the principle of differentiation have a still ...
... line of demarcation be admitted as that which we have just seen Mr. Spencer to admit as existing between Conscious- ness on the one hand and material existence on the other , why may not the principle of differentiation have a still ...
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... line at Conscious- ness , and decline to construe the Absolute in terms of the Per- sonal ? Mr. Spencer , as we have seen , speaks of the Absolute as being also the Unknowable . He uses these two terms indiffer- ently to describe the ...
... line at Conscious- ness , and decline to construe the Absolute in terms of the Per- sonal ? Mr. Spencer , as we have seen , speaks of the Absolute as being also the Unknowable . He uses these two terms indiffer- ently to describe the ...
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... line of thought . It is not , of course , a mathematico - physical , or , in the narrower sense of the word , a " scientific " proof ; it is not claimed for it that it is a strict , deductive chain of reasoning . Rather is it an ...
... line of thought . It is not , of course , a mathematico - physical , or , in the narrower sense of the word , a " scientific " proof ; it is not claimed for it that it is a strict , deductive chain of reasoning . Rather is it an ...
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Page 469 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 157 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell : but thou shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Page 90 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 465 - When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor'd youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
Page 85 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 176 - We have not wings, we cannot soar: But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time.
Page 86 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 92 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet, and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form...
Page 92 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 180 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.