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" Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's pale history runs, — What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns... "
MacMillan's Magazine - Page 57
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The Meaning of Prayer

Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1915 - 228 pages
...doubt; he gathers all the activities of mankind, our wars, politics, arts and sciences, and cries, "What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?" II How in the face of this new knowledge of the universe can we pray in the confidence that God knows...
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The Silent Conflict: A Story of Industrial Warfare

Charles Carroll Swafford - 1916 - 382 pages
...changes in and about the works of the Mother Lode Mining Company. CHAPTER XXIV RUNNING THE GANTLET "Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?" Tennyson's fastness. A few weeks after the incidents recorded in the last chapter, Mr. Ralph Sumner,...
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Raymond; Or, Life and Death, with Examples of the Evidence for Survival of ...

Sir Oliver Lodge - 1916 - 448 pages
...everyday experience and ultimate reality. Even the portentous struggle in which Europe is engaged — "What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?" Yet, for true interpretation, the infinite worth and vital importance of each individual human soul...
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The North American Student, Volume 6

1917 - 488 pages
...alert to God. They sympathize with Tennyson's pessimist who found no central soul in the universe: As this poor earth's pale history runs, What is it...trouble of ants In the gleam of a million, million suns ! Over against this mood of the " slacker," let us take the apostle's great phrase and see what...
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God and Mr. Wells: A Critical Examination of "God the Invisible King,"

William Archer - 1917 - 156 pages
...rate of brutal carelessness, in the responsible Power, whoever that may be. "What is it all," we say, "but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?" We feel like insects'whom the foot of a heedless giant may at any moment crush. We dream of the swish...
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Can We Believe in Immortality?

James Henry Snowden - 1918 - 262 pages
...all his doings but the buzzing of insects of an hour? Even this titanic world-convulsion of war — What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million suns? Can we suppose that such a creature as man in such a world is immortal? Does he not take himself...
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Aberdeen University Studies, Issues 78-79

1918 - 850 pages
...Even this great war, what is it in the immensity of the stellar universe but a very little thing, " a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns " ? '9 If before it began there was no proof of the existence of a personal God who can hear our prayers,...
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Songs of Challenge

Robert Frothingham - 1922 - 212 pages
...after many a vanish 'd face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish'd race. Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? Lies upon this side, lies upon that side, truthless violence mourn'd by the Wise, Thousands of voices...
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What it Means to be a Christian: The Evangelistic Message in Outline

Edward Increase Bosworth - 1922 - 112 pages
...of the mind of God being able to give attention to the details of each individual's life. " As the poor earth's pale history runs, What is it all but...trouble of ants in the gleam of a million, million suns." God may be good so far as he goes, but can he go so far in capacity for attention as to reach...
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Tennyson: A Modern Portrait

Hugh I'Anson Fausset - 1923 - 348 pages
...their highest moments, it purifies their meanest by raising him above the pettier appetites of life. " Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns ? " He began to see life from the eternal standpoint, and all that jarred upon his courtly nature in...
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