| Edward Clodd - 1902 - 278 pages
...as that of the bees," the "ape and tiger" instincts are found dominant. It was based on selfishness. The race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong. Even then, however, in the earliest grouping of a few families into clans or gentes, the blood-tie,... | |
| Leo N. Levi - 1905 - 354 pages
...occurred. Here was life, bustle, achievement; here was an open field for energy and ambition where the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong. Time was too precious to devote to ceremonies that consumed the half of it almost, and thus trenched... | |
| May Sinclair - 1906 - 200 pages
...ironically — a wedding-song, a battle-song, a song of victory. Bastian Cautley was right when he said that the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. How eager she had been for the fight, how mad for the crowded course! She had rushed on, heat after... | |
| Marie Corelli - 1906 - 584 pages
...stupid " ? Yes, — perhaps he had, when in the bold carelessness of full manhood he had assumed that the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong — but now, when the shadows were falling — when, perhaps, he would never hear the Christmas bells... | |
| Helen Ashe Hays - 1910 - 270 pages
...retreating braves made their camp, and here the Catawbas came up with them and gave battle. This time the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. The Delawares met their pursuers joyfully, turning the lust of the chase to the lust of fighting. The valley... | |
| Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1920 - 220 pages
...artificial, timeworn standards or classifications, but it did admit differences of attainment, for the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. Even political leadership, provided the leader made no assumption of superior intelligence or erudition,... | |
| Theodore Dreiser - 1920 - 334 pages
...could not possibly overcome. And there were other phases which previously I had scarcely suspected. The race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. All great successes, as I was beginning to discover for myself, were relatively gifts, the teachings... | |
| Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 250 pages
...as that of the bees, " the ape and tiger " instincts are found dormant. It was based on selfishness. The race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. Even then, however, in the earliest grouping of a few families into clans, the blood tie, whose source... | |
| Thomas W. Dunlay - 2000 - 568 pages
...Indian to discover his vicinity to a trapper. The trapper's shot informed him of that, and afterwards the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong. Besides this acknowledged necessity for fighting whenever Indians were met with in the Blackfeet and... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1878 - 810 pages
...pursuits, the more ambitious spirits in the German bourgeoisie have sought the only field of honor in which the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. We may smile at the small salaries of the German Professor, but when compared with other government... | |
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