 | George Eliot - 1876 - 206 pages
...how you arrive at that sort of certitude about changes by calling them development," said Deronda. " There will still remain the degrees of inevitableness...for an inevitable law that we must adjust ourselves to, — which seems to me as bad a superstition or false god as any that has been set up without the... | |
 | George Eliot - England - 1876 - 444 pages
...how you arrive at that sort of certitude about changes by calling them development," said Deronda. "There will still remain the degrees of inevitableness...there will still remain the danger of mistaking a. tendeney which should be resisted for an inevitable law that we must adjust ourselves to — which... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 424 pages
...how you arrive at that sort of certitude about changes by calling them development," said Deronda. " There will still remain the degrees of inevitableness...for an inevitable law that we must adjust ourselves to, — which seems to me as bad a superstition or false god as any that has been set up without the... | |
 | James Platt - Economics - 1882 - 234 pages
...will be hastened or retarded in proportion to our m or folly. We must profit by experience, and seo the danger of mistaking a tendency which should be resisted for an inevitable law to which we must adjust ourselves. Life, like fire, to be kept up, needs careful building, then judicious... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...be hastened or retarded in proportion to our wisdom or folly. We must profit by experience, and see the danger of mistaking a tendency which should be resisted for an inevitable law to which we must adjust ourselves. Life, like fire, to be kept up, needs careful building, then judicious... | |
 | George Eliot - English literature - 1894 - 424 pages
...how you arrive at that sort of certitude about changes by calling them development," said Deronda. " There will still remain the degrees of inevitableness...for an inevitable law that we must adjust ourselves to, — which seems to me as bad a superstition or false god as any that has been set up without the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1950 - 628 pages
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 | George Eliot - 1908 - 414 pages
...arrive at that sort of [ 361 ] certitude about changes by calling them development," said Deronda. "There will still remain the degrees of inevitableness...for an inevitable law that we must adjust ourselves to, — which seems to me as bad a superstition or false god as any that has been set up without the... | |
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I really can't see how you arrive at that sort of certitude about changes by calling them development," said Deronda. " There will still remain the degrees of inevitableness in relation to our own will and acts, and the degrees of wisdom in hastening... 
