 ... the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave ; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday...  The Quarterly Review - Page 123edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
 | 1924 - 416 pages
...intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration,...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...of the end they were achieving ; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can... | |
 | John Elof Boodin - 1925 - 496 pages
...the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and 47 his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - 1924 - 198 pages
...noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system. The whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only upon the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1925 - 296 pages
...temple of man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the d6bris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can... | |
 | Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1926 - 352 pages
...footnote. f Freud, Beyond the Pleasun-Priwijjle, p. 52. his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations...philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand." " How," the same writer goes on (and this is exactly the problem of the present paper), " in such an... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1926 - 300 pages
...of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual beyond the grave ; that all the labours of the ages,...are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which reject* them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation... | |
 | William Rex Crawford - 1925 - 60 pages
...intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration,...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffoldings of these truths, only on the firm foundations of unyielding despair, can... | |
 | Sherwood Eddy - 1926 - 264 pages
...prove or disprove by logic, each of these two men is equally assured in his own mind. Mr. Russell says, "All these things if not quite beyond dispute, are...no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. . . . Only on the firm 1Bertrand Russell, "A Free Man's Worship (Mysticism and Logic)," New York, 1918,... | |
 | 1926 - 906 pages
...achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the ddbris of the universe in ruins. All these things if not beyond dispute are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand." Russell is simply saying, in more pretentious phrases, what was said long ago, in a jingling way, by... | |
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