 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - Страниц: 596
...mentioned work he treats us to the following consoling assurance — " Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes of a still higher destiny in the distant future. . . . We must acknowledge, as it seems to me,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - Страниц: 470
...slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - Страниц: 296
...perfect statue now rough-cast in clay."1 Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen to the very summit of the organic scale ; and the fact of this great advance from a lowly origin constitutes in itself a prophecy of a still higher destiny in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1874 - Страниц: 840
...slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not hero concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits... | |
 | Henry Augustus Mott - 1880 - Страниц: 164
...knowledge of God, of a soul, or of any future state. Darwin remarks, that " man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...of having been aboriginally placed there, may give hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future." The belief in a future life amongst the civilized... | |
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - Страниц: 100
...slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstition. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...a still higher destiny in the distant future." Mr. Dai win's name is associated almost exclusively in the minds of many persons with the doctrine of Evolution,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - Страниц: 396
...slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted hy the grossest superstitions. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1885 - Страниц: 238
...elevation. To Darwin himself, however, it seemed otherwise. ' Man,' he says, ' may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...for a still higher destiny in the distant future.' Surely this is the truer and manlier way of looking at the reversed and improved attitude of man. Surely... | |
 | Robert Hartmann - 1885 - Страниц: 402
...fine passage with which Darwin ends his work on the descent of man. " Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - Страниц: 228
...slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions. " Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his...having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or... | |
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Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale ; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a... 
