Accepting the Universe: Essays in NaturalismConstable, 1920 - Всего страниц: 327 |
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... tornadoes and earthquakes , are good in a positive sense , but that these and kindred things are vastly overbalanced by the forces and agencies that make for our well - being , - that " work together for good , " the sunshine , the ...
... tornadoes and earthquakes , are good in a positive sense , but that these and kindred things are vastly overbalanced by the forces and agencies that make for our well - being , - that " work together for good , " the sunshine , the ...
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... tornadoes and earthquakes and wars and pestilence upon the earth - surely it all sounds worse than it is , for we are all here to see and contemplate the great spectacle ; it sounds worse than it is to us because we are a part of the ...
... tornadoes and earthquakes and wars and pestilence upon the earth - surely it all sounds worse than it is , for we are all here to see and contemplate the great spectacle ; it sounds worse than it is to us because we are a part of the ...
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... tornadoes , untimely frosts are evils which he thinks he could well dispense with , but so far as they make a greater struggle necessary , so far as they lead to more self - denial , greater fore- thought , and so on , they are good in ...
... tornadoes , untimely frosts are evils which he thinks he could well dispense with , but so far as they make a greater struggle necessary , so far as they lead to more self - denial , greater fore- thought , and so on , they are good in ...
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... tornadoes , and all the consuming and agonizing diseases that flesh is heir to . He is an in- finite man with infinite powers for good and evil . In the long drama of animal evolution there has evidently been as much suffering as ...
... tornadoes , and all the consuming and agonizing diseases that flesh is heir to . He is an in- finite man with infinite powers for good and evil . In the long drama of animal evolution there has evidently been as much suffering as ...
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... tornado , earthquake , are all her servitors . She does not stick for the best end of the bargain , the gain is hers who- ever wins . But behold how she has endowed man to im- prove upon all her slack and roundabout methods ! She ...
... tornado , earthquake , are all her servitors . She does not stick for the best end of the bargain , the gain is hers who- ever wins . But behold how she has endowed man to im- prove upon all her slack and roundabout methods ! She ...
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Стр. 171 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Стр. 202 - I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now...
Стр. 65 - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed...
Стр. 319 - I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels, He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit, And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
Стр. 319 - No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth, Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
Стр. 318 - The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. Whoever you are ! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid, You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky, For none more than you are the present and the past, For none more than you is immortality.
Стр. 23 - The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque.
Стр. 317 - ... aesthetic or intellectual, Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good, Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories, The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States; Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons, Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,...
Стр. 317 - Be composed— be at ease with me— I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.