Science and a Future Life: With Other EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - 243 pages |
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agnostic agnosticism already ancient argument belief character CHARLES LAMB Christian conception cosmic laws Cosmos creed Darwin death deep definite desire despair discovery divine Duke of Albany earth earthly emotion energy ESSAYS eternal evidence evolution existence experiments fact faith fcap feel Flag of England France FREDERIC HARRISON French future Globe 8vo happiness heart hope human ideal illusion imagine impulse influence inquiry instinct intellectual JOHN KEATS John Stuart Mill kind living look Lucretius man's mankind mental psychology mind modern moral nation nature observation once ourselves pain passion perhaps philosophy Plato pleasure Plotinus poems poet possible Prince problem psychical psychology question race realised recognised religion savants scientific seems sense SIDNEY COLVIN soul speak speculation spiritual world suppose survival Swinburne telepathy Tennyson Thalassius things thought thro tion Traducianism truth universe utter virtue whole Wordsworth yearning
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Page 157 - Sun, sun, and sun, thro' finite-infinite space In finite-infinite Time— our mortal veil And shatter'd phantom of that infinite One, Who made thee unconceivably Thyself Out of His whole World-self and all in all — Live thou ! and of the grain and husk, the grape And ivyberry, choose ; and still depart From death to death thro...
Page 181 - Love deep as the sea as a rose must wither, As the rose-red seaweed that mocks the rose. Shall the dead take thought for the dead to love them ? What love was ever as deep as a grave ? They are loveless now as the grass above them Or the wave.
Page 16 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 157 - OUT of the deep, my child, out of the deep, From that great deep, before our world begins, Whereon the Spirit of God moves as he will — Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep, From that true world -within the world we see, Whereof our world is but the bounding shore...
Page 194 - Nay, but she airn'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly?
Page 199 - The Ghost in Man, the Ghost that '. once was Man, But cannot wholly free itself from Man, Are calling to each other thro' a dawn Stranger than earth has ever seen ; the veil Is rending, and the Voices of the day Are heard across the Voices of the dark.
Page 183 - We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; To-day will die to-morrow Time stoops to no man's lure; And love, grown faint and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure.
Page 58 - On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me.
Page 69 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Page 207 - Oh, righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.