Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on EvolutionAppleton, 1887 - Всего страниц: 423 |
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Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on Evolution Edward Payson Powell Полный просмотр - 1887 |
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Стр. 391 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Стр. 392 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Стр. 391 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Стр. 391 - 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 destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Стр. 144 - God of the granite and the rose ! Soul of the sparrow and the bee ! The mighty tide of being flows, Through countless channels, Lord, from thee. " It leaps to life in grass and flowers, Through every grade of being runs ; Till, from creation's radiant towers, Its glory flames in stars and suns.
Стр. 405 - The truly honest man, here and there to be found, is not only without thought of legal, religious, or social compulsion, when he discharges an equitable claim on him ; but he is without thought of self-compulsion. He does the right thing with a simple feeling of satisfaction in doing it ; and is, indeed, impatient if anything prevents him from having the satisfaction of doing it.