The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen44D. Appleton, 1894 |
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... present conditions an oyster famine is not a far - away nor impossible contingency . We have been large consumers of oysters , and we did not sow where we had reaped . Luckily , this condition of affairs attracted the serious attention ...
... present conditions an oyster famine is not a far - away nor impossible contingency . We have been large consumers of oysters , and we did not sow where we had reaped . Luckily , this condition of affairs attracted the serious attention ...
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... present will be familiar . But so many of our grave and reverend juniors have been brought up on severer intellectual diet , and perhaps have become acquainted with fairyland only through primers of comparative mythology , that it may ...
... present will be familiar . But so many of our grave and reverend juniors have been brought up on severer intellectual diet , and perhaps have become acquainted with fairyland only through primers of comparative mythology , that it may ...
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... presents itself on all sides . It meets us in the water that flows to the sea and returns to the springs ; in the ... present germ ( 4 ) gives rise to tissues and organs ; while another part ( B ) remains in its primitive condition ...
... presents itself on all sides . It meets us in the water that flows to the sea and returns to the springs ; in the ... present germ ( 4 ) gives rise to tissues and organs ; while another part ( B ) remains in its primitive condition ...
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... present those old and new worlds of the past and the future , wherein men dwell the more the higher their culture . But that very sharpening of the sense and that subtle refinement of emo- tion which brought such a wealth of pleasures ...
... present those old and new worlds of the past and the future , wherein men dwell the more the higher their culture . But that very sharpening of the sense and that subtle refinement of emo- tion which brought such a wealth of pleasures ...
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... present , and future are indissol- ubly connected ; and there is no more injustice in the one case than in the other . Every sentient being is reaping as it has sown ; if not in this life , then in one or other of the infinite series of ...
... present , and future are indissol- ubly connected ; and there is no more injustice in the one case than in the other . Every sentient being is reaping as it has sown ; if not in this life , then in one or other of the infinite series of ...
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Página 187 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Página 324 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival...
Página 190 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Página 323 - To do this effectually it is necessary to be fully possessed of only two beliefs : the first that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited ; the second, that our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events.
Página 28 - Yet this plea of justification is not less plausible than others; and none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the ground of inherent absurdity. Like the doctrine of evolution itself, that of transmigration has its roots in the world of reality; and it may claim such support as the great argument from analogy is capable of supplying.
Página 455 - There with a light and easy motion The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Página 184 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes...
Página 185 - Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before.
Página 186 - that survived might be nothing but lichens, diatoms, and such microscopic organisms as those which give red snow its color; while if it became hotter, the pleasant valleys of the Thames and Isis might be uninhabitable by any animated beings save those that flourish in a tropical jungle. They as the fittest, the best adapted to the changed conditions, would survive.
Página 69 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.