 Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way...  The Personalist - Página 86editado por - 1920Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Edward Hand - 1904 - 366 páginas
...were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with \ brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race...Man, ^condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow i himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1907 - 548 páginas
...paper no such hope lights np the prospect. ' Brief and powerless is man's life,' he says on p. 169. ' On him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls...omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way ; for man,' he cries, ' it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his... | |
 | 1918 - 624 páginas
...widowhood performs suttee after this fashion: "Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and...condemned to-day to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pa*s through the gates of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1912 - 416 páginas
...prevision of the end they were achieving," then it must follow that his life is "brief and powerless," that "on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark." 1 J. Arthur Thomson and Patrick Geddes: "A Biological Approach," in Idealt of Science and Faith, edited... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1917 - 336 páginas
...Bertrand Russell's candid disclosure of the consequences of his own scepticism : "Brief and power- \ less is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure...Man condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow him/ self to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains onjy to cherish, ere yet the blow falls,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 256 páginas
...ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. '-, / Brief and powerless is Man's life ; on him and all his '...; for Man, condemned! to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrcw himself to pass \ A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish,... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - 468 páginas
...brave words in which high courage glowed. "Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and...his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gates of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble... | |
 | Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) - 1918 - 72 páginas
...democracy in the end. A few words of Bertrand Russell's will trenchantly bring out this fact: "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race...and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter 33 rolls on its relentless way." "All the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration,... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1920 - 394 páginas
...Logic, remarkable alike for its noble and moving prose and for its stoical attitude, declares: "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race...his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gates of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble... | |
 | State University of New York at Buffalo - 1920 - 110 páginas
...gloomy pages of Mr. Russell's famous essay on "The Free Man's Worship". The essay ends thus : "Brief and powerless is Man's life : on him and all his race...matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gates of darkness, it remains only to cherish,... | |
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