Lucretius, 14. köideW. Blackwood, 1878 - 172 pages |
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ÆSCHYLUS amongst Anaxagoras animals ANTHONY TROLLOPE atoms beasts beginnings birth BODHAM body colour conceived conception consciousness death divine dreams earth Empedocles empty space Epicurus ether everything existence explain eyes facts feel films fire force give gods gradually GREEK ANTHOLOGY grow heat heaven Heraclitus Herodotus HESIOD human images infinite infinitely divisible instance kind laws light living things LORD NEAVES Lucretius goes Lucretius seems Lucretius's Memmius mind and soul mirror modern moon mortal motion move movement nature never observation once origin of species particles perpetually plain pleasure poem poet poetry produced race realise reason rebound religion round says Lucretius scientific system seeds seen sense shape stream substances surface sweet teach Thales thee theism theory thou thought THUCYDIDES TIBULLUS tion Tityos universe various verse vital principle void W. H. MALLOCK wandering Whilst whole wild words
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Page 155 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of...
Page 160 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Page 156 - d : be cheerful, sir: Our revels now are ended : these our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind : We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 155 - ... strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem. ' How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? ' The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would...
Page 161 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 77 - When human life, a shame to human eyes, Lay sprawling in the mire in foul estate, A cowering thing without the strength to rise, Held down by fell religion's heavy weight — Religion scowling downward from the skies, With hideous head, and vigilant eyes of hate—- First did a man of Greece presume to raise His brows, and give the monster gaze for gaze. Him not the tales of all the gods in heaven, Nor the heaven's lightnings, nor the menacing roar Of thunder daunted. He was only driven, By these...
Page 160 - Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
Page 160 - The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 161 - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Page 85 - For blindly, blindly, and without design, Did these first atoms their first meetings try; No ordering thought was there, no will divine To guide them ; but through infinite time gone by Tossed and tormented they essayed to join, And clashed through the void space tempestuously, Until at last that certain whirl began, Which slowly formed the earth and heaven and man.