The Bible of Nature: Five Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William BrossCharles Scribner, 1908 - 248 páginas |
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abiogenesis activity animals Arthur Thomson atoms beauty become beginning behavior birds body Bross centrosphere changes chemical chemical affinity chemical elements complex compounds conception continually corpuscles cosmic course Darwin earth emotional mood ether ethical European eel evolved fact forms formulæ grow Hans Driesch human Huxley hypothesis idea inanimate nature individual intelligent kind less living creatures living matter living organisms Lord Kelvin material matter and energy means mechanical ment meteorites millions mind mood mystery Natural Selection Nature's nebula not-living occur organic compounds origin pass perhaps phenomena philosophical physicists plant potentiality Professor progress proteid race radio-activity radium Ray Lankester redescribe regard resident properties scientific interpretation seems sense of wonder sequences simple simplest species stars struggle for existence suggested swarm of meteorites things tion tricity unity universe variations whole William Bross
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Página 52 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página vi - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Página 72 - L'homme n'est qu'un roseau le plus faible de la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant. Il ne faut pas que l'univers entier s'arme pour l'écraser. Une vapeur, une goutte d'eau, suffit pour le tuer. Mais quand l'univers l'écraserait, l'homme serait encore plus noble que ce qui le tue, parce qu'il sait qu'il meurt; et l'avantage que l'univers a sur lui, l'univers n'en sait rien. Toute...
Página 181 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Página 211 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Página 31 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 35 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a...
Página 16 - This is certain, things however absolute and entire they seem in themselves, are but retainers to other parts of nature, for that which they are most taken notice of by us. Their observable qualities, actions, and powers, are owing to something without them...
Página 203 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Página 181 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.