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| James Edward Hand - Religion and Science - 1904 - 366 pages
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| Edward Jenks - 1904 - 724 pages
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| James Edward Hand - Religion and science - 1904 - 368 pages
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| James Edward Hand - Religion and Science - 1904 - 364 pages
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 pages
...heart of this generation; they are as poignant and almost as lyrical as the words of the Rubaiyat: "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of the accidental collocation of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling,... | |
| Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 1910 - 202 pages
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| John Neville Figgis - Apologetics - 1912 - 328 pages
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity... | |
| Burnett Hillman Streeter - Religion - 1912 - 560 pages
...Science presents to-day as that within which human ideals must find a home is wilder and more fearful. " That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his-beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
| Theosophy - 1918 - 624 pages
...Co. Mr. Russell's philosophy is an attempt to build "on the firm foundation of unyielding despair." Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving. His origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental... | |
| Ralph Barton Perry - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 408 pages
...must renounce hope of possessing it in the end. of Faith Thus Mr. Russell apparently infers that if "Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving," then it must follow that his life is "brief and powerless," that "on him and all his race the slow,... | |
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