 We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short...  The Review of Reviews - Page 434edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Church congress - 1888 - 790 pages
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to know that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past and see...sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our... | |
 | Arthur James Balfour - 1888 - 70 pages
...travail, a race with conscience enough to know that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that 44 it is insignificant. We survey the past and see that...sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1894 - 658 pages
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to know "that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past and see...revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. MAN AS HE WILL BE. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual... | |
 | Arthur James Balfour - 1893 - 358 pages
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to know that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past and see...sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our... | |
 | Arthur James Balfour Earl of Balfour - 1894 - 392 pages
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to feel that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past, and...of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid achave not hesitated to borrow the phraseology of that essay wherever it seemed convenient. . . quiescence,... | |
 | Arthur James Balfour - 1894 - 382 pages
...achave not hesitated to borrow the phraseology of that essay wherever it seemed convenient. quiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our... | |
 | Arthur James Balfour - 1895 - 372 pages
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to feel that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past, and see that its history is ol blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations.... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1897 - 224 pages
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to feel that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past, and...revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations." One of the most striking examples of his weak efforts for literary effect is in the middle 58 of one... | |
 | Church congress - 1897 - 550 pages
...book on " The Foundations of Belief," that the very existence of man is an accident, that his history of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspiration, is but a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 pages
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to feel that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past, and...sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our... | |
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