 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 57edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 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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