 NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her; powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. 'Without asking, or warning, she snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls us on until we are tired, and drop from...  Nature - Page 9edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 1926 - 794 pages
...and published it, as a jeu d'esprit, over his own name in the issue of November 4, 1869.] 'NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her; powerless to...been, comes not again. Everything is new, and yet naught but the old. 'We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but... | |
 | Essex Field Club - 1881 - 582 pages
...but be the echoes of opinions already expressed. In the words of Goethe we may exclaim : — "Nature! we are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to...ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her She is ever shaping new forms : what is has never yet been ; what has been comes not again. Everything... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 698 pages
..."Greek Poets"; First Series; London ed., 1877: pp. 204, 215-17. (598) II. : p. 289. — "Nature! we sn-e surrounded and embraced by her : powerless to separate...until we are tired, and drop from her arms. . . She is always building up and destroying; but her workshop is inaccessible. . . She rejoices in illusion.... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 pages
...London ed., 1877: pp. 204, 215-17. II.: p. 289. — "Nature! we are surrounded and embraced by ber : powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Without askmg or warning, she snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls us on until we are tired,... | |
 | 1891 - 1062 pages
...NATUEE: , APHOEISMS BY GOETHE. - .- ,. (Translated by Prof. Huxley ; " Nature," Nov. 4, 1869.) WATUBE ! We are surrounded and embraced by her : powerless...snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls ns on until we are tired, and drop from her aims. • • She is ever shaping new forms : what is,... | |
 | Huntly Carter - 1912 - 392 pages
...intuitions and creative evolution is about once more. It was about in Goethe's time when he wrote, " Nature is ever shaping new forms ; what is has never yet...again. Everything is new, and yet nought but the old." Thus he stamped himself as one of the epoch-making discoverers in the long life of the philosophy.... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 356 pages
...The universal throng." Let us listen to Goethe, at once scientific investigator and poet: " Nature ! We are surrounded and embraced by her : powerless to separate ourselves from her . . . We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, yet betrays not her... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, John Arthur Thomson, Herbert Spencer Jennings, George Howard Parker, Ernest William MacBride, Edwin Grant Conklin, William Berryman Scott, Francis Arthur Bather, John Walter Gregory, Arthur Smith Woodward, Charles Stuart Gager, Edward Wilber Berry, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley, William Morton Wheeler, Frederic Brewster Loomis, David Meredith Seares Watson, Richard Swann Lull, William King Gregory, Grafton Elliot Smith, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Julian Huxley - 1928 - 476 pages
...and embraced by her; powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. "She is ever shaping new forms; what is, has never...been, comes not again. Everything is new, and yet naught but the old." — Goethe. THE STORY TOLD BY FOSSIL PLANTS BY EDWARD WILBER BERRY Professor of... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, John Arthur Thomson, Herbert Spencer Jennings, George Howard Parker, Ernest William MacBride, Edwin Grant Conklin, William Berryman Scott, Francis Arthur Bather, John Walter Gregory, Arthur Smith Woodward, Charles Stuart Gager, Edward Wilber Berry, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley, William Morton Wheeler, Frederic Brewster Loomis, David Meredith Seares Watson, Richard Swann Lull, William King Gregory, Grafton Elliot Smith, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Julian Huxley - 1928 - 466 pages
...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." — Darwin. "Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her; powerless to...ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. "She is ever shaping new forms; what is, has never yet been; what has been, comes not again. Everything... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, John Arthur Thomson, Herbert Spencer Jennings, George Howard Parker, Ernest William MacBride, Edwin Grant Conklin, William Berryman Scott, Francis Arthur Bather, John Walter Gregory, Arthur Smith Woodward, Charles Stuart Gager, Edward Wilber Berry, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley, William Morton Wheeler, Frederic Brewster Loomis, David Meredith Seares Watson, Richard Swann Lull, William King Gregory, Grafton Elliot Smith, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Julian Huxley - 1928 - 464 pages
...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." — Darwin. "Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her ; powerless...ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. "She is ever shaping new forms; what is, has never yet been; what has been, comes not again. Everything... | |
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