 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 542 pages
...says : " But all his endeavours have in the last resort but this one meaning, that they, in connexion with those of countless others, should combine to...of existence, what we have to do and what to hope "-1 And again, " taking truth as a whole, we are not justified in regarding it as a mere self-centred... | |
 | American fiction - 1895 - 540 pages
...were an intelligible and worthy aim of human effort. But all his endeavors have in the last resort but this one meaning, that they, in connection with those...of existence, what we have to do, and what to hope Whenever any scientific revolution has driven out old modes of thought, the new views that take their... | |
 | American fiction - 1896 - 564 pages
...aim of human effort. But all his endeavors have in the last resort but this one meaning, that they, r in connection with those of countless others, should...of existence, what we have to do. and what to hope Whenever any scientif1c revolution has driven out old modes of thought, the new views that take their... | |
 | William Norman Guthrie - Literary Collections - 1897 - 376 pages
...were an intelligible and worthy aim of human effort. But all his endeavors have in the lust resort but this one meaning, that they, in connection with those...of existence, what we have to do, and what to hope. . . . Whenever any scientific revolution has driven out old modes of thought, the new views that take... | |
 | Charles Wilfred Valentine - Philosophy and religion - 1911 - 52 pages
...reality, with the demands of man's heart, and its value is determined by the extent to which it shows us " what we have to reverence, as the true significance...of existence, what we have to do and what to hope " (Introd. to Microcosmus, p. ix.). Mere knowledge of truth is of no value in itself. " If the object... | |
 | David Skrbina - Philosophy - 2005 - 334 pages
...iii). They forgot that the true nature of intellectual inquiry is to provide ultimately "one meaning": "to trace an image of the world from which we may...to reverence as the true significance of existence" (ix). Mechanism disintegrated the harmony of the ancient cosmic order, and "the further advance of... | |
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... may at times forget the connection of his narrow sphere of work with the great ends of human life ; it may at times seem to him as though the furtherance of knowledge for the sake of knowledge were an intelligible and worthy aim of human effort. But... 