Science and a Future Life: With Other EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - 243 páginas |
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actual agnostic agnosticism already ancient answer argument belief character Christian Collège de France conception consciousness cosmic law Cosmos creed Darwin death deep definite desire despair discovery earth earthly emotion energy ESSAYS eternal evolution existence experimental psychology experiments fact faith fcap feel Flag of England France FREDERIC HARRISON French future Globe 8vo happiness heart hope human hypothesis ideal illusion impulse influence inquiry instinct intellectual JOHN KEATS John Stuart Mill kind living Lucretius mankind means mental psychology methods mind modern moral nation nature observation once ourselves pain passion perhaps philosopher Plato pleasure Plotinus poems poet possible Prince problem proof psychical psychology question race realised reason recognised religion Salpêtrière savants scientific seems sense SIDNEY COLVIN soul speculation spiritual world Sully-Prudhomme suppose Swinburne telepathy Tennyson Thalassius things thought thro tion Traducianism truth universe utter virtue whole Wordsworth
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Página 14 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Página 144 - And more, my son! for more than once when I Sat all alone, revolving in myself The word that is the symbol of myself, The mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and thro...
Página 143 - OUT of the deep, my child, out of the deep, From that great deep, before our world begins, Whereon the Spirit of God moves as he will — Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep, From that true world -within the world we see, Whereof our world is but the bounding shore...
Página 186 - Nay, but she airn'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly?
Página 191 - The Ghost in Man, the Ghost that '. once was Man, But cannot wholly free itself from Man, Are calling to each other thro' a dawn Stranger than earth has ever seen ; the veil Is rending, and the Voices of the day Are heard across the Voices of the dark.
Página 169 - We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; To-day will die to-morrow Time stoops to no man's lure; And love, grown faint and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure.
Página 46 - On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me.
Página 135 - The dim and shadowy outlines of the superhuman Deity fade slowly away from before us, and, as the mist of his presence floats aside, we perceive with greater and greater clearness the shape of a yet grander and nobler figure, of him who made all gods and shall unmake them.
Página 57 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Página 199 - Oh, righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.