The New Universe: An Outline of the Worlds in which We LiveD. Van Nostrand Company, 1926 - 455 pages |
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A. N. WHITEHEAD abstract action adjustment æsthetic æther America ancient animals atom beauty behavior BERTRAND RUSSELL build called cell cent Chap cited cities civilization coal common sense continuity coördinated cosmic Cro-Magnon cubic centimetres doubt E. A. Ross earth economic energy engines Europe evolution experience external F. C. S. Schiller factors GEORGE SANTAYANA guild socialism horse huge human hypothesis increase industrial iron JOHN DEWEY labor learned less light living things machines man's material matter means mechanism ment million modern motion mystic nation natural Neanderthal neolithic never organized perhaps philosophers planetesimal Plato Plotinus point of view population problem production Protagoras race reality reason religion rocks says scientific scientist social society soil space speed spiritual standards stars stone Stuart Chase thought tion town triremes ultimate universe
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Page 284 - He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird ; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own ; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 310 - Socrates, is the final cause of all our former toils) — a nature which in the first place is everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing and waning; secondly, not fair in one point of view and foul in another, or at one time or in one relation or at one place fair, at another time or in another relation or at another place foul, as if fair to some and foul to others, or in the likeness of a face or hands or any other part of the bodily frame, or in any form of speech or knowledge, or existing...
Page 332 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Page 311 - Do you not see that in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities; for he has hold not of an image but of a reality, and bringing forth and educating true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Page 80 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
Page 285 - MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them...
Page 332 - The spirit sports with time— Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity. We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth. Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so.
Page 283 - A bar of steel — it is only Smoke at the heart of it, smoke and the blood of a man. A runner of fire ran in it, ran out, ran somewhere else, And left smoke and the blood of a man And the finished steel, chilled and blue.
Page 284 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life...
Page 283 - For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.