 | Beatrice M. Hinkle - Neuroses - 1923 - 500 pages
...power are forces to be dreaded. This spirit is breathed in the famous words of Balfour quoted by James. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of...perish. The uneasy consciousness which in this obscure comer has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will... | |
 | Rutherford Hamilton Towner - Civilization - 1923 - 352 pages
...of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down...consciousness which in this obscure corner has for a long space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no... | |
 | Albert Cornelius Knudson - Christianity - 1924 - 340 pages
...but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigations, the energies of OUT system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed,...solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thought will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief time broken... | |
 | Frederick Starr, Clarence Darrow - Happiness - 1925 - 70 pages
...the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...and inert, will \ no longer tolerate the race which for a moment disturbed its solitude.. Man will go down into ' the pit, and all his thoughts -will perish.... | |
 | Sister Mary Verda - Knowledge, Theory of - 1926 - 216 pages
...stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period . . . the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. . . . 'Imperishable monuments' and 'immortal deeds,' death itself, and love stronger than death, will... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - Philosophy - 1926 - 568 pages
...the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down to the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner... | |
 | Herbert Leslie Stewart - Authors, French - 1927 - 416 pages
...when the energies of the Sun shall have been dimmed, and the Earth — tideless and inert — shall no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude.26 But Anatole France, like Lord Balfour, reminds himself how it is not so wonderful that... | |
 | Edwin Emery Slosson - Science - 1928 - 344 pages
...some time we should all be Eskimos and then go into cold storage forever. As Lord Balfour put it : " The energies of our system will decay; the glory of...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. ' ' Then radium came to the rescue. Both the earth and the sun, it was found, had internal self-heaters,... | |
 | Frederick Elmore Lumley - Sociology - 1928 - 590 pages
...mind, many thinkers have been very pessimistic about the whole business. Arthur Balfour thinks . ' . . man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish . . . Nor will anything that is be better or worse for all that the labor, genius, devotion, and suffering... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - History - 1950 - 504 pages
...the individual life but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.... | |
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... the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will... 
