Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow... Studies - Page 180by State University of New York at Buffalo - 1920Full view - About this book
| 1905 - 706 pages
...Promethean rebellion. Even in such a world as this there is, however, still room for ethical ideals. ' Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way ; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| James Edward Hand - 1904 - 364 pages
...hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| Edward Jenks - 1904 - 724 pages
...hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way ; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| James Edward Hand - 1904 - 368 pages
...hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| James Edward Hand - 1904 - 366 pages
...we [ were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with \ brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, ^condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow i himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| 1905 - 686 pages
...Promethean rebellion. Even in such a world as this there is, however, still room for ethical ideals. ' Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way ; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1907 - 548 pages
...paper no such hope lights np the prospect. ' Brief and powerless is man's life,' he says on p. 169. ' On him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls...omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way ; for man,' he cries, ' it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his... | |
| Robert Mark Wenley - 1909 - 396 pages
...the sombre burden of life simmers down to that neo-Stoicism taught openly now in several quarters. "Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1910 - 202 pages
...hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is Man's life ; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way ; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1911 - 740 pages
...Vol. XIII of this REVIEW. Essay II, "The Free Man's Worship," is an eloquent assertion of Stoicism. " Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only... | |
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