Creative InvolutionA.A. Knopf, 1916 - 221 páginas |
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able attain attention become BORZOI Brazen Head cause cell CHAPTER civilisation CLAUDE BRAGDON collective mind colony formations comes concept concrete universal consciousness CORROBORATIVE READINGS CORROBORATIVE CREATIVE INVOLUTION creature Darwinism desire dividual earth EDWIN MARKHAM efferent nerves elements entities environment eternal Evolution EVOLUTIONARY RHYTHM fact force four-dimensional fourth dimension Friar give GRAHAM WALLAS heaven hence Henri Poincaré higher human hypothesis ical idea ideal individual integration intellect intuition JOSEPH COOK larger live loyalty man's mathematics matter means ment mental nation Natural Selection nature ness organic evolution organisation passing perfect period philosophy physical plane PRESENT EVOLUTIONARY CONFUSION progress Protista psychic purpose question READINGS CORROBORATIVE READINGS realise realm relation sciousness sense sion social soul space Spaceland spirit stand struggle for existence synthesis things thought TIDE OF LIGHT tion to-day true truth unit unity universal vision whole woman
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Página 81 - GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations.
Página 192 - Binds it, and makes all error : and to KNOW Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Página 89 - Only secure in every one's conniving, A long account of nothings paid with loss, Where we poor puppets, jerked by unseen wires, After our little hour of strut and rave, With all our pasteboard passions and desires, Loves, hates, ambitions, and immortal fires, Are tossed pell-mell together in the grave.
Página 183 - Behold ! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open toward the light and reaching all along the den ; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.
Página 89 - Something to live for here that shall outlive us? Some more substantial boon Than such as flows and ebbs with Fortune's fickle moon?
Página 167 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Página 184 - You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the caver True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
Página 210 - God-when regardless of that which we now call being she raised her head up towards the true being. And therefore the mind of the philosopher alone has wings; and this is just, for he is always, according to the...
Página 43 - And another would mount and march, like the excellent minion he was, Ay, another and yet another, one crowd but with many a crest, Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass, Eager to do and die, yield each his place to the rest...
Página 184 - And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?