 | 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...Man, ^condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow i himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1912 - 416 pages
...prevision of the end they were achieving," then it must follow that his life is "brief and powerless," that "on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark." 1 J. Arthur Thomson and Patrick Geddes: "A Biological Approach," in Idealt of Science and Faith, edited... | |
 | 1918 - 624 pages
...the universe, Mr. Russell in his moral and spiritual widowhood performs suttee after this fashion: "Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter... | |
 | John Neville Figgis - 1912 - 328 pages
...belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life." "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race that slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1917 - 336 pages
...Bertrand Russell's candid disclosure of the consequences of his own scepticism : "Brief and power- \ less is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure...Man condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow him/ self to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains onjy to cherish, ere yet the blow falls,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 256 pages
...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...; for Man, condemned! to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrcw himself to pass \ A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish,... | |
 | Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) - 1918 - 72 pages
...defeat democracy in the end. A few words of Bertrand Russell's will trenchantly bring out this fact: "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter 33 rolls on its relentless way." "All the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration,... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - 468 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 his race, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1920 - 394 pages
...and Logic, remarkable alike for its noble and moving prose and for its stoical attitude, declares: "Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all...his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gates of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble... | |
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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... 
