Excursions of an EvolutionistHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 379 sayfa |
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Sayfa 247 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Sayfa 302 - Then sawest thou that this fair universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the Stardomed City of God ; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams.
Sayfa 184 - The difference is due to the accumulated influences of individuals, of their examples, their initiatives, and their decisions.
Sayfa 179 - The causes of production of great men lie in a sphere wholly inaccessible to the social philosopher. He must simply accept geniuses as data, just as Darwin accepts his spontaneous variations.
Sayfa 123 - This jeu d° esprit of Schleicher's has been so often alluded to that I am tempted to quote it here, with an English translation. To any classical scholar, who has also a slight acquaintance with Sanskrit and Gothic, the sense must shine so clearly through the Old Aryan words that the translation will hardly be needed. Avis akvasas ka. Avis, yasmin varna na a ast, dadarka akvams, tam, vagham garum vaghantam, tam, bharam magham, tam, manum aku bharantam. Avis akvabhyams a vavakat : kard aghnutai mai...
Sayfa 191 - Before he can re-make his society, his society must make him. So that all those changes of which he is the proximate initiator have their chief causes in the generations he descended from. If there is to be anything like a real explanation of these changes, it must be sought in that aggregate of conditions out of which both he and they have arisen.
Sayfa 187 - Timbuctoo, then the notorious and conspicuous differences between them are wholly due to the geographical position of the various races. If the people who went to Hamburg...
Sayfa 328 - When I come to the conclusion that you are conscious, and that there are objects in your consciousness similar to those in mine, I am not inferring any actual or possible feelings of my own, but your feelings, which are not, and cannot by any possibility become, objects in my consciousness.