 ... and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness with which I regarded the Matterhorn ? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of...  Studies in Theism - Page 163by Borden Parker Bowne - 1879 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force ; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Are questions like these warranted ? Are they healthy? Ought they not to be quenched by a life of action... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1869 - 610 pages
...return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force ; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Are questions like these warranted ? Are they healthy? Ought they not to be quenched by a life of action?... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1871 - 566 pages
...return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force ? for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Questions like these, useless as they seem, may still have a practical outcome. For if the final goal... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1871 - 562 pages
...return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force ? for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Questions like these, useless as they seem, may still have a practical outcome. For if the final goal... | |
 | John Tyndall - Chemistry - 1871 - 436 pages
...return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Are questions like these warranted ? Why not ? If the final goal of man has not been yet attained;... | |
 | John Tyndall - Religion and science - 1871 - 438 pages
...return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force ; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Are questions like these warranted ? Why not ? If the final goal of man has not been yet attained ;... | |
 | John Tyndall - Alps - 1871 - 510 pages
...simply.return to its primeval home? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force ? for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Questions like these, useless as they seem, may still have a practical outcome. For if the final goal... | |
 | John Tyndall - Alps - 1872 - 520 pages
...return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force ? for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue. Questions like these, useless as they seem, may still have a practical outcome. For if the final goal... | |
 | Christianity - 1872 - 606 pages
...* Fragments of Science, ii. \ 05. wo not better re-cast our definitions of matter and force ; for, if life and thought be the very flower of both, any...life and thought, must be inadequate, if not untrue. * * * When I look at the heavens and the earth, at my own body, at my strength and weakness of mind,... | |
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