 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
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1922 - 726 pages
...the life of one of the meanest of the planets. . . . We survey the past and see that its (the race's) history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering,...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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