The Living Age, Volume 263E. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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... ture had been in the main literary ; when they relaxed from practical af- fairs they read the poets and the clas- sics . Mr. Gladstone , taken to visit Darwin in 1877 , had nothing to ask concerning the studies which , as Lord Morley ...
... ture had been in the main literary ; when they relaxed from practical af- fairs they read the poets and the clas- sics . Mr. Gladstone , taken to visit Darwin in 1877 , had nothing to ask concerning the studies which , as Lord Morley ...
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... ture each for himself and against all . On the contrary , in The Descent of Man , he pointed out the serviceableness of the social instincts , and corroborated Bagehot's statements when the latter , applying laws of physics to politics ...
... ture each for himself and against all . On the contrary , in The Descent of Man , he pointed out the serviceableness of the social instincts , and corroborated Bagehot's statements when the latter , applying laws of physics to politics ...
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... ture consist , therefore , essentially in the operation of the law of competition in its purest form . The prevailing idea , however , that it is the fittest pos- sible that survive in this struggle is wholly false . The effect of ...
... ture consist , therefore , essentially in the operation of the law of competition in its purest form . The prevailing idea , however , that it is the fittest pos- sible that survive in this struggle is wholly false . The effect of ...
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... ture , the law of competition . And in so far as he has progressed at all he has done so by gaining little by little the mastery in this struggle . In the physical world he has accomplished this through inventions , from which have ...
... ture , the law of competition . And in so far as he has progressed at all he has done so by gaining little by little the mastery in this struggle . In the physical world he has accomplished this through inventions , from which have ...
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... ture's rebel . Where nature says ' Die , ' man says ' I will live . ' . . . As he has more and more obtained control over his surroundings , he has expanded that unconscious protective attitude tow- ards his immature offspring , which ...
... ture's rebel . Where nature says ' Die , ' man says ' I will live . ' . . . As he has more and more obtained control over his surroundings , he has expanded that unconscious protective attitude tow- ards his immature offspring , which ...
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Page 481 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 614 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 163 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
Page 229 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Page 550 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 229 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter— the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.
Page 162 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh!
Page 528 - Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...
Page 71 - Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
Page 248 - I dare say he thinks he has done a mighty thing. He won't stay till he gets home to his seat in the country, to produce this wonderful deed: hell call up the landlord of the first inn on the road; and, after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life, will tell him that he should not delay making his will; and here, Sir...