Many who hold the evolution hypothesis would probably assent to the position that at the present moment all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, all our art — Plato, Shakespeare Newton, and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun... Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington - Page xxxivby Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881Full view - About this book
| George Howells - 1913 - 654 pages
...physical, finds its explanation within the domain of organic evolution. Professor Tyndall contended that all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science,...— Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun. Emotion, instinct, . volition, and intellect are so strikingly similar... | |
| Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 pages
...unyielding necessity. He captured its beauty and inescapability, exulting that 'at the present moment, all our poetry, all our science, all our art Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael - are potential in the fires of the sun.' Darwin's New Model Army had inherited the ethical rigour of the... | |
| 1874 - 800 pages
...mind itself, emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena, were once latent in a fiery cloud." "All our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science,...— Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun." Then to clinch the whole argument, Dr. Thompson, with Tyndall at... | |
| 1885 - 574 pages
...who hold to the Evolution hypothesis would probably assent to the position that at the present moment all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, all our art, Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Raphael, are potential in the fires of the sun.' Professor WK Clifford, in an article on the Ethics... | |
| Homer Judd, Christopher W. Spalding, Henry Seymour Chase - 1878 - 744 pages
...modern school holds that " mind, emotion, intelligence and will, were once latent in a fiery cloud;" that "all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, all our art — Plato, Shakspeare, Newton and T?aplncl are potential in the fires of the sun," which means that all phenomena,... | |
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