 Pervading all Nature we may see at work a stern discipline which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. That state of universal warfare maintained throughout the lower creation, to the great perplexity of many worthy people, is at bottom the most...  The Assault on Equalityby Peter Knapp - 1996 - 281 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1880 - 758 pages
...consult before they undertake the work of giving advice regarding the management of the universe. " Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline,...which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. . . . The development of the higher creation is a progress toward a form of being capable of a happiness... | |
 | 1866 - 444 pages
...that the infliction of pain may be subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stern discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on among lower animals, whereby those no longer fit to live are spared... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 544 pages
...it, limit its exercise, check its development, and therefore retard the process of adaptation. § 6. Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline,...which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. That state of universal warfare maintained throughout the lower creation, to the great perplexity of... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 540 pages
...paradox that the infliction of pain is subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stern discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on throughout the animal world, whereby those no longer fit to live are... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 562 pages
...infliction of pain is subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stem discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on throughout the animal world, whereby those no longer fit to live are... | |
 | John Fiske - 1875 - 538 pages
...infliction of pain is subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stem discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on throughout the animal world, whereby those no longer fit to live are... | |
 | Alonzo Van Deusen - 1885 - 508 pages
...but more fortunate, may have the better opportunity to flourish. Hear Mr. Spencer upon this topic : " Pervading all nature, we may see at work a stern discipline...which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. That state of universal warfare maintained throughout the lower creation, to the great perplexity of... | |
 | John Coleman Adams - 1888 - 110 pages
...severities than that we should go unhindered to destruction. " Pervading all nature," says Spencer, " we may see at work a stern discipline which is a little cruel that it may be very kind." That sentence is a key to interpret the asperities of our moral experience. God wounds that He may... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1890 - 564 pages
...and therefore retard the process of adaptation. § 6. Pervading all nature we may see at work a Htern discipline, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. That state of universal warfare maintained throughout the lower creation, to the great perplexity ot... | |
 | James Houghton Kennedy - 1891 - 320 pages
...paradox, that the infliction of pain is subservient to a beneficent end. ' Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stern discipline, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.'" And a little later he adds, that with Michelet we come to regard pain as in some sort the artist of... | |
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