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" Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life... "
Essays in Astronomy - Page 89
1900 - 536 pages
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Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook

Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato - 1998 - 520 pages
...mechanistic nature indifferent to human life and values. As Tennyson wrote in "in Mcmoriam AHH" (1850). Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life. (p. 397) When he reflects further, the situation seems still worse, nature does not even seem to value...
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Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian ...

John Cottingham - 1998 - 250 pages
...which countless individuals and species perish: Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature leads such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems,.... . 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped clifTand quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone I care for nothing, all shall go.' Tennyson...
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The Future of Human Reproduction: Ethics, Choice, and Regulation

John Harris, Søren Holm - 1998 - 270 pages
...viewpoint seems to lead to a vision more similar to that presented by Tennyson when he wrote that Nature 'so careful of the type she seems, so careless of the single life'. Therefore a unique genetic combination is to be seen just as one occurrence out of infinite possibilities...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creatlon moves. 1 1579 In Memoriam AHH (of Nature) Adventures of Sally When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. 1 1580 'Merlin and The Gleam' After it. follow it. Follow The Gleam. 11581 'Northern Farmer. New Style'...
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Animals on the Agenda: Questions about Animals for Theology and Ethics

Andrew Linzey, Dorothy Yamamoto - 1998 - 322 pages
...they can conceive no higher standard than Nature's Way, and simultaneously denounce that standard. Are God and Nature then at strife, that Nature lends such evil dreams?25 The only sensible answer would seem to be: yes. What should happen and what does are no closer...
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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 pages
...an appropriate context. I quote The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (London: Macmillan, 1884), 261.] That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of...life "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cuff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. "Thou...
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The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology

John Polkinghorne, Michael Welker - 2000 - 324 pages
...extinction, what matters the life and work of a single man like Hallam or, for that matter, Tennyson? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life; (LV) "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliffs and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand...
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Myth and Meaning, Myth and Order

Stephen C. Ausband - 2000 - 144 pages
...race in general. He calls it "the larger hope," but Lyell's discoveries seem to repudiate even this: "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She [Nature] cries, "A thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go." This is the empty universe,...
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Deceptions and Myths of the Bible

Lloyd Graham - 1991 - 496 pages
...permits such misery to exist He cannot be good, and if He is powerless to prevent it, He cannot be God." "Are God and Nature then at strife, that Nature lends such evil dreams?" Tennyson.4 No, it is only Nature and man's false God-concept that are at strife. To kill or be killed...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...spirits, virtue; and in the world of angels, praise. John Ruskin, Modem Painters, IX, xii (1888) 35 Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends such evil dreams? Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, LIV(1850) 36 The stuff of the universe, woven in a single piece according...
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