 ... is even intellectually satisfying in the awful picture which science shows us, of giant worlds concentrating out of nebulous vapour, developing with prodigious waste of energy into theatres of all that is grand and sacred in spiritual endeavour, clashing...  The Unseen World: And Other Essays - Page 56by John Fiske - 1876 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1883 - 430 pages
...that is grand and sacred in spiritual endeavor, clashing and exploding again into dead vapor balls, only to renew the same toilful process without end...aspiration brought forth only to be extinguished." Such sentiments characterize the ablest physicists of the age. It is a great achievement to have traced... | |
 | David Gray - 1888 - 388 pages
...science shows us,' and before this picture he thus meditates: 'The human mind, however "scientific" in its training, must often recoil from the conclusion...June mornings, in green country lanes, with sweet pine-odors wafted in the breeze which sighs through the branches, and cloud-shadows flitting over far-off... | |
 | David Gray - 1888 - 378 pages
...a recently published essay, sums up the latest dicta of Science as to the universe and its destiny. 'A senseless bubble-play of Titan forces, with life,...aspiration brought forth only to be extinguished,' is ' the awful picture,' he says, ' which science shows us,' and before this picture he thus meditates:... | |
 | William Wirt Kinsley - 1896 - 362 pages
...into dead vapor balls, only to renew the same toilsome process without end — a senseless bubble play of Titan forces, with life, love, and aspiration brought forth only to be extinguished " ; for with this clew we can see afar down the coming ages a glorious culmination of that vast plan... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 498 pages
...his sceptical neighbour shall be convinced by the same considerations ; but his neighbour is at 72 the same time estopped from stigmatizing his belief...this cannot be all. On warm June mornings in green 74 country lanes, with sweet pine-odours wafted in the breeze which sighs through the branches, and... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 436 pages
...if they seem in a somewhat singular contrast to his more polemic moods. " We must think," he says, " with the symbols with which experience has furnished...extinguished. The human mind, however ' scientific ' in its training, must often recoil from the conclusion that this is all ; and there are moments when... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 456 pages
...if they seem in a somewhat singular contrast to his more polemic moods. " We must think," he says, " with the symbols with which experience has furnished...extinguished. The human mind, however ' scientific ' in its training, must often recoil from the conclusion that this is all ; and there are moments when... | |
 | John Fiske - 1916 - 452 pages
...if they seem in a somewhat singular contrast to his more polemic moods. " We must think," he says, " with the symbols with which experience has furnished...extinguished. The human mind, however ' scientific ' in its training, must often recoil from the conclusion that this is all ; and there are moments when... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1918 - 508 pages
...that is grand and sacred in spiritual endeavour, clashing and exploding again into dead-vapour balls, only to renew the same toilful process without end...June mornings, in green country lanes, with sweet pine odours wafted in the breeze which sighs through the branches, and cloud-shadows flitting over... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1923 - 498 pages
...that is grand and sacred in spiritual endeavour, clashing and exploding again into dead-vapour balls, only to renew the same toilful process without end...June mornings, in green country lanes, with sweet pine odours wafted in the breeze which sighs through the branches, and cloudshadows flitting over far-off... | |
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