The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic PhilosophyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - 309 pages |
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... destroy the foundations of religion . It has robbed man- kind of the consolations of religion without being able to replace them with anything more exact or more enduring . It cannot be disputed that a general uneasiness disturbs the ...
... destroy the foundations of religion . It has robbed man- kind of the consolations of religion without being able to replace them with anything more exact or more enduring . It cannot be disputed that a general uneasiness disturbs the ...
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... destroyed part of the barricade . It performed its vain task , ignoring what was indispensable for success . " Even amongst fossorial wasps , the instincts of which are so admirably developed , harmony is far from perfect . Fabre ...
... destroyed part of the barricade . It performed its vain task , ignoring what was indispensable for success . " Even amongst fossorial wasps , the instincts of which are so admirably developed , harmony is far from perfect . Fabre ...
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... destroying a moth , Botys sticticalis , the caterpillars of which devour cereals and beetroot , is the lighting of numerous fires in the fields . The moths , attracted by the light , fall in the flames and die in quantities . When the ...
... destroying a moth , Botys sticticalis , the caterpillars of which devour cereals and beetroot , is the lighting of numerous fires in the fields . The moths , attracted by the light , fall in the flames and die in quantities . When the ...
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... destroy the noxious Botys , as they maintain that the females are not attracted . These latter therefore live on , and , being capable of laying eggs , produce a generation of voracious caterpillars . Of the Ephemera attracted by fire ...
... destroy the noxious Botys , as they maintain that the females are not attracted . These latter therefore live on , and , being capable of laying eggs , produce a generation of voracious caterpillars . Of the Ephemera attracted by fire ...
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... destroyed the race in which they occur . This continuous process of natural selection , which offers so good an ... destroy their lives . Were such creatures capable of reflection and com- munication , plainly the fortunate among them ...
... destroyed the race in which they occur . This continuous process of natural selection , which offers so good an ... destroy their lives . Were such creatures capable of reflection and com- munication , plainly the fortunate among them ...
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Page 293 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 163 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 293 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 162 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 280 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 291 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 177 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 84 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 226 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.