... fragility of the individual life. A moral paralysis creeps upon us. For a while we comfort ourselves with the notion of selfsacrifice ; we say, What matter if I pass, let me think of others ! But the other has become contemptible no less than the... Reflections of a Russian Statesman - Page 164by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - 1898 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir John Robert Seeley - Natural theology - 1882 - 316 pages
...natural can suffice for human life. No sooner do we try to think so than pessimism raises its head. The more our thoughts widen and deepen, as the universe...cold ; they die of their own conscious feebleness and bootlessness. Supernatural Religion met this want by connecting Love and Righteousness with eternity.... | |
| Sir John Robert Seeley - Natural theology - 1882 - 322 pages
...natural can suffice for human life. No sooner do we try to think so than pessimism raises its head. The more our thoughts widen and deepen, as the universe...cold ; they die of their own conscious feebleness and bootlessness. Supernatural Religion met this want by connecting Love and Righteousness with eternity.... | |
| English literature - 1882 - 598 pages
...notion of self-sacrifice ; we say, What matter if I pass, let me think of others ! But the otfter hns become contemptible no less than the self ; all human...cold ; they die of their own conscious feebleness and bootlessuess. Supernatural Religion met this want by connecting Love and Ilightcousuoss with eternity.... | |
| Great Britain - 1882 - 1038 pages
...me think of others ! But the other has become contemptible no less than the self; all human griefa alike seem little worth assuaging, human happiness...affections die away in a world where everything great and enduring1 is cold ; they die of their own conscious feebleness and bootlessness. " Supernatural Religion... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - Natural theology - 1883 - 104 pages
...fragility of the individual life. A moral paralysis creeps upon us. For a while we comfort ourself with the notion of self-sacrifice ; we say, What matter...cold ; they die of their own conscious feebleness and bootlessness." * What is this but an eloquent confession that the modern theory of the universe, so... | |
| English literature - 1883 - 530 pages
...description is given of the ghastliness of a world " where everything great and enduring is cold," where " everything widens and deepens except our own duration, and that remains as pitiful as ever." " Supernatural religion," the author goes on, " met the want by connecting love and righteousness with... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1886 - 104 pages
...fragility of the individual life. A moral paralysis creeps upon us. For a while we comfort ourself with the notion of self-sacrifice ; we say, What matter...long as everything widens and deepens except our own 1 P. 111. duration, and that remains as pitiful as ever. The affections die away in a world where everything... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - Natural theology - 1886 - 106 pages
...fragility of the individual life. A moral paralysis creeps, upon us. For a while we comfort ourself with the notion of self-sacrifice ; we say, What matter...long as everything widens and deepens except our own 1 P. 111. duration, and that remains as pitiful as ever. The affections die away in a world where everything... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - Natural theology - 1886 - 106 pages
...intolerable the more we know and discover, so long as everything widens and deepens except our own 1 P. 111. duration, and that remains as pitiful as ever. The...cold ; they die of their own conscious feebleness and bootlessness."1 What is this but an eloquent confession that the modern theory of the universe, so... | |
| Apologetics - 1886 - 436 pages
...alike seem little worth assuaging, human happiness too paltry at the best to be worth increasing. . . . Life becomes more intolerable, the more we know and...deepens except our own duration, and that remains pitiful as ever. The affections die away in a world where everything great and enduring is cold; they... | |
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