...success and triumph in the future. These ideas represent no early stage in human thought, but we have left them far behind. The family, the tribe, the nation,...the combination of causes which first converted a piece or pieces of unorganized jelly into the living progenitors of humanity, science indeed, as yet,...

...interests. Man, past, present, and future, lays claim to our devotion. What then can we say of him ? 43 Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to...the combination of causes which first converted a piece or pieces of unorganized jelly into the living progenitors of humanity, science indeed, as yet,...

...the final cause of the universe, the heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is nn accident, his story 'a brief and discreditable episode in the life of one of tho meanest of the planets. Of the combination of causes which first converted a dead organic compound...

...success and triumph in the future. These ideas represent no early stage in human thought, but we have left them far behind. The family, the tribe, the nation,...the combination of causes which first converted a piece or pieces of unorganised jelly into the living progenitors of humanity, science indeed, as yet,...

...interests. Man, past, present, and future, lays claim to our devotion. What, then, can we say of him 1 Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to...the combination of causes which first converted a piece or pieces of unorganised jelly into the living progenitors of humanity, science indeed, as yet,...

...forces of nature, as Balfour says, "his very existence an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets." All these naturalistic conceptions had been formulated long before the war but we were so occupied...

...estimate of the importance of man, that makes " his very existence an accident," his story only a passing episode " in the life of one of the meanest of the planets," that, from some unknown origin, after infinite travail evolves through strife, " famine, disease, and...

...blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspiration, is but a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. But with that Faith all is changed. God has a plan for the world, a great educational plan, by which...

...bipeds who happen to have been evolved during what Mr. Balfour has called a " brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets." It is one of the worst practical results of such an admission that the only objectivity which moral...

...other natural objects "; that " his very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets"; and that in the distant future the sun will be darkened, the earth will no longer tolerate our race...