The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic PhilosophyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - 309 pages |
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... give immediate promise of marketable fruit . The labour of many years spent in minute tracing of the development of insects , echinoderms , worms and jelly- fish , would appear sufficiently unprofitable to those who give a scanty ...
... give immediate promise of marketable fruit . The labour of many years spent in minute tracing of the development of insects , echinoderms , worms and jelly- fish , would appear sufficiently unprofitable to those who give a scanty ...
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... give an exposition of human nature in its strength and in its weak- ness . But before passing to man , I shall survey the lower forms of life , hoping to fix some landmarks that will be useful in the study of the larger problem ...
... give an exposition of human nature in its strength and in its weak- ness . But before passing to man , I shall survey the lower forms of life , hoping to fix some landmarks that will be useful in the study of the larger problem ...
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... give the reader a better idea of adaptations and of their importance to living creatures , it will , perhaps , be as well to devote some space to an account of examples of them . Amongst organisms that attract our attention by their ...
... give the reader a better idea of adaptations and of their importance to living creatures , it will , perhaps , be as well to devote some space to an account of examples of them . Amongst organisms that attract our attention by their ...
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... give an account of the origin of man . This question has pre- occupied mankind for ages , and for a long time it was believed that a solution of the problem was to be found in religious dogmas . Man was regarded as being of super ...
... give an account of the origin of man . This question has pre- occupied mankind for ages , and for a long time it was believed that a solution of the problem was to be found in religious dogmas . Man was regarded as being of super ...
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... gives information of great importance in the classification of mammals . It is sufficient to glance at the zonary placenta of dogs and seals to be convinced of the relationship of these two species , which at first sight seem so ...
... gives information of great importance in the classification of mammals . It is sufficient to glance at the zonary placenta of dogs and seals to be convinced of the relationship of these two species , which at first sight seem so ...
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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.