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 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 pages
...conserving power which tends everywhere to fixity of type. And this reminds us of the lines of Tennyson: "Are God and nature, then, at strife, That nature...careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life."16 Hence, when a race once seats itself permanently in a land it is almost as impossible to get... | |
 | Peter Vardy - 1997 - 212 pages
...than means to some blind end. Tennyson portrayed the problem this way in his poem "Ulysses" in 1850: Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems. So careless of the single life. "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 pages
...when faced with the findings of science and so Tennyson is forced to ask the fundamental questions: Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life; 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types... | |
 | Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato - 1998 - 520 pages
...mechanistic nature indifferent to human life and values. As Tennyson wrote in "in Mcmoriam AHH" (1850). Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life. (p. 397) When he reflects further, the situation seems still worse, nature does not even seem to value... | |
 | John Cottingham - 1998 - 250 pages
...which countless individuals and species perish: Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature leads such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life . . . 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped clifTand quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creatlon moves. 1 1579 In Memoriam AHH (of Nature) Adventures of Sally When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. 1 1580 'Merlin and The Gleam' After it. follow it. Follow The Gleam. 11581 'Northern Farmer. New Style'... | |
 | John Harris, Søren Holm - 1998 - 270 pages
...viewpoint seems to lead to a vision more similar to that presented by Tennyson when he wrote that Nature 'so careful of the type she seems, so careless of the single life'. Therefore a unique genetic combination is to be seen just as one occurrence out of infinite possibilities... | |
 | Andrew Linzey, Dorothy Yamamoto - 1998 - 322 pages
...they can conceive no higher standard than Nature's Way, and simultaneously denounce that standard. Are God and Nature then at strife, that Nature lends such evil dreams?25 The only sensible answer would seem to be: yes. What should happen and what does are no closer... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 1999 - 366 pages
...depth of despair, faced with what he took to be the meaningless lack of direction of Lyellian geology. Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life; 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 pages
...an appropriate context. I quote The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (London: Macmillan, 1884), 261.] That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cuff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types... | |
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