Many who hold it would probably assent to the position that, at the present moment, all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, and all our art — Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun. Scientific Addresses - Page 70by John Tyndall - 1870 - 74 lehteFull view - About this book
| John Tyndall - 1903 - 146 lehte
...at the present moment, all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, and all our art — 75 Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael — are potential...have come to us across the ages which separate the primeval mist from the consciousness of to-day. I do not think that any holder of the Evolution hypothesis... | |
| Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1904 - 386 lehte
...of the Imagination, Tyndall has the following passage : "Many who hold it [the theory of evolution] would probably assent to the position that, at the...have come to us across the ages which separate the primeval mist [the solar nebula] from the consciousness of to-day." And this is certainly the modern... | |
| Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1904 - 386 lehte
...philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, and all our art—Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael—are potential in the fires of the sun. We long to learn...have come to us across the ages which separate the primeval mist [the solar nebula] from the consciousness of to-day." And this is certainly the modern... | |
| John Tyndall - 1905 - 494 lehte
...philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, and all our art—Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael—are potential in the fires of the sun. We long to learn...have come to us across the ages ' which separate the primeval mist from the consciousness of to-day. I do not think that any holder of the Evolution hypothesis... | |
| Garrett Putman Serviss - 1912 - 236 lehte
...phenomena — were once latent in a fiery cloud! But the hypothesis would probably go even farther than this. Many who hold it would probably assent...sun! " We long to learn something of our origin. If this evolution hypothesis be correct, even this unsatisfied yearning must have come to us across the... | |
| Ronald Campbell Macfie - 1912 - 320 lehte
...the vapour of the breath on a cold winter day." " All our poetry," said Tyndall, " all our science, all our art, Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael, are potential in the fires of the sun." With such a consistent mechanical theory of all things, we might, it is true, consider creation as... | |
| Garrett Putman Serviss - 1912 - 240 lehte
...philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, and all our art—Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael—are potential in the fires of the sun! "We long to learn something of our origin. If this evolution hypothesis be correct, even this unsatisfied yearning must have come to us across the... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 lehte
...JOHN TYNDALL intellect, will, and all their phenomena, — were once latent in a fiery cloud. . . . All our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science,...Raphael, — are potential in the fires of the sun." Unlike Keats in his Lamia, Tyndall is firm in his belief that science will not clip the wings of imagination.... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 lehte
...their phenomena, — were once latent in a fiery cloud. ... All our philosophy, all our poetry, ^11 our science, and all our art, — Plato, Shakespeare,...Raphael, — are potential in the fires of the sun." Unlike Keats in his Lamia, Tyndall is firm in his belief that science will not clip the wings of imagination.... | |
| George Howells - 1913 - 654 lehte
...organic evolution. Professor Tyndall contended that all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, all our art — Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun. Emotion, instinct, . volition, and intellect are so strikingly similar in animals and young children... | |
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