 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 232 pages
...existing in after-ages to remind the passer-by of a form of energy, and a species of matter, that are long since out of date, and functionally effete. Why...then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams 1 So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; " ' So careful of the type ? '... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likeat God within the soul ? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1887 - 540 pages
...spectacle of all the suffering this implies makes the poetical interpreter of modern thought exclaim — ' Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends...the type, she seems So careless of the single life ; ' and others seem unable to look ' behind the veil ' to ' the hands That reach through nature moulding... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life ; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She... | |
 | John Venn - 1876 - 526 pages
...one liable to lead to much confusion. The lines which have been prefixed as a motto to this work, " So careful of the type she seems, so careless of the single life," are soon after corrected by the assertion that the type itself, if we regard it for a long time, changes,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1876 - 396 pages
...personification of nature is but a poetical idea, and does not present any real substantive truth),— Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams t So careful of the type she seems. So careless of the single life. ' So careful of the type ? ' but... | |
 | James Sully - 1877 - 500 pages
...factor in certain inaccessible stages of human development, need not here be taken into account. ' Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life.' The preservation and improvement of the species to the disregard of the individual looks like the substitution... | |
 | American Association on Mental Deficiency - 1877 - 1178 pages
...image ? has been the cry of many saddened parents, as they have regarded their stricken children. " Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life?" • " God's ways are not as our ways." Who shall say that these sadlyafflicted ones have no mission... | |
 | James Sully - 1877 - 532 pages
...factor in certain inaccessible stages of human development, need not here be taken into account. ' Are God and Nature, then, at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams t So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.' The preservation and improvement... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 pages
...conserving power which tends everywhere to fixity of type. And this reminds us of the lines of Tennyson: "Are God and nature, then, at strife, That nature...careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life."16 Hence, when a race once seats itself permanently in a land it is almost as impossible to get... | |
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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... 
