Life and the Conditions of Survival: The Physical Basis of Ethics, Sociology and ReligionC.H. Kerr, 1895 - 447 páginas |
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... beginning , all organic life on the earth is derived . It requires very little demonstration to prove that substantially all the energy involved in terrestrial phe- nomena is drawn from this source . The chief forms of energy known to ...
... beginning , all organic life on the earth is derived . It requires very little demonstration to prove that substantially all the energy involved in terrestrial phe- nomena is drawn from this source . The chief forms of energy known to ...
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... beginning of history , but during that enormously long antecedent period , in comparison with which " the whole recorded duration of human history shrinks into nothingness . " Let us next ask how this solar energy in the form of heat ...
... beginning of history , but during that enormously long antecedent period , in comparison with which " the whole recorded duration of human history shrinks into nothingness . " Let us next ask how this solar energy in the form of heat ...
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... the whole course and tendency of Nature , so far as science now makes out , points backward to a beginning and forward to an end . The present order of things seem to be bounded , both in the past and in the future , by Solar Energy 45.
... the whole course and tendency of Nature , so far as science now makes out , points backward to a beginning and forward to an end . The present order of things seem to be bounded , both in the past and in the future , by Solar Energy 45.
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... beginning . With- out taking account of the heat sent forth from the earth itself during the ages when it was cooling down from a mass of fiery vapors , hardening its crust , and making ready for the work of the succeeding periods , the ...
... beginning . With- out taking account of the heat sent forth from the earth itself during the ages when it was cooling down from a mass of fiery vapors , hardening its crust , and making ready for the work of the succeeding periods , the ...
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... beginning and without prospect of an end . " " + The imagination staggers at the tremendous possi bilities here opened before it ; at the mighty Power at the heart of things , which is adequate to the pro- duction of this marvelous ...
... beginning and without prospect of an end . " " + The imagination staggers at the tremendous possi bilities here opened before it ; at the mighty Power at the heart of things , which is adequate to the pro- duction of this marvelous ...
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Página 323 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 238 - But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Página 238 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Página 250 - There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Página 238 - Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O! Men, with Sisters dear! O! Men! with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures
Página 354 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 323 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 319 - ... individual case. In the main, however, all expert opinion would agree that abrupt acquisition of the new habit is the best way, if there be a real possibility of carrying it out. We must be careful not to give the will so stiff a task as to insure its defeat at the very outset; but, provided one can stand it, a sharp period of suffering, and then a free time, is the best thing to aim at...
Página 319 - The peculiarity of the moral habits, contradistinguishing them from the intellectual acquisitions, is the presence of two hostile powers, one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right.
Página 353 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be...