 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 lehte
...this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism,...moral nature be debased by the increase of his wisdom. . . . But, after all, what do we know of this terrible ' matter,' except as a name for the unknown... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 lehte
...great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watcli what they conceive to be the progress of materialism,...and powerless anger as a savage feels, when, during щ eclipse, the great shadow creeps over the face of the sun. Tjig_|jiliwiiiiiiiiiy liidniiinf _ Ч... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 56 lehte
...this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism,...moral nature be debased by the increase of his wisdom. If the " New Philosophy" be worthy of the reprobation with which it is visited, I confess their fears... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 lehte
...this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism,...moral nature be debased by the increase of his wisdom. If the "New Philosophy" be worthy of the reprobation with which it is visited, I confess their fears... | |
 | James Tyson - 1870 - 180 lehte
...Huxley, which so many of the best minds conceive to be the progress of materialism, which they watch with such fear and powerless anger as a savage feels, when,...the great shadow creeps over the face of the sun. We know nothing of this terrible " matter," except as the name for the unknown and hypothetical cause... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 lehte
...this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism, in such fear and powerless anger - feels, when, during an eclipse, the great 3 over the face of the sun. The advancing tide of matter... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1871 - 422 lehte
...this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism,...tide of matter threatens to drown their souls ; the tight% ikfisical gasig of fife. 143 ening grasp of law impedes their freedom ; they are alarmed lest... | |
 | Education, Member of the New Zealand Bar - 1873 - 328 lehte
...like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they believe to be the progress of materialism in such fear and...nature be debased by the increase of his wisdom." Dr. John Duncan, speaking of some ministers of the gospel, said they were " constitutionally afraid... | |
 | Lionel Smith Beale - 1874 - 462 lehte
...of this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of the day. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism...nature be debased by the increase of his wisdom." — ("Lay Sermons," p. 142, third edition.) Some may be inclined to think that such ideas are a little... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 lehte
...this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism,...nature be debased by the increase of his wisdom.' — ('On the Physical Basis of Life,'. 'Lay Sermons,' &c.) "Wherever facts lead us we must follow ;... | |
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The consciousness of this great truth weighs like a nightmare, I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. They watch what they conceive to be the progress of materialism in such fear and powerless anger as a savage feels when, during an eclipse,... 
