 The ethical view of the universe involves us at last in so many cruel and absurd contradictions, where the last vestiges of faith, hope, charity, and even of reason itself, seem ready to perish, that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot...  The Women who Make Our Novels - Pagina 189door Grant Martin Overton - 1918 - 393 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Conrad - 1912 - 232 pagina’s
...perhaps, the true task of us men whose day is short on this earth, the abode of conflicting opinions. The ethical view of the universe involves us at last...love, adoration, or hate, if you like, but in this view—and in this view alone—never for despair! Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral... | |
 | Charles Crittenton Baldwin - 1917 - 160 pagina’s
...that is told.' ' The ethical view of the universe,' says Mr. Joseph Conrad in A Personal Record, ' involves us at last in so many cruel and absurd contradictions,...view — and in this view alone — never for despair I Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral end in themselves.' And again, ' It is sufficient... | |
 | Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett - 1918 - 388 pagina’s
...cannot be ethical at all. I would fondly believe that its object is purely spectacular." The cosmos is " a spectacle for awe, love, adoration, or hate, if you like, but in this view . . . never for despair! Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral end in themselves. . . .... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1912 - 170 pagina’s
...perhaps, the true task of us men whose day is short on this earth, the abode of conflicting opinions. The ethical view of the universe involves us at last...love, adoration, or hate, if you like, but in this view—and in this view alone—never for despair! Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral... | |
 | Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1925 - 364 pagina’s
...The ethical view of the universe involves us at last in so many cruel and absurd contradictions . . . that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation...spectacle for awe, love, adoration, or hate, if you like . . . Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral end in themselves." Another modern writer says... | |
 | Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1925 - 376 pagina’s
...The ethical view of the universe involves us at last in so many cruel and absurd contradictions . . . that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation...spectacle for awe, love, adoration, or hate, if you like . . . Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral end in themselves." Another modern writer says... | |
 | Grant Martin Overton - 1928 - 394 pagina’s
...cliffs exercising a more compelling power than men. Melville sought to affirm nothing but the spectacle. The ethical view of the universe involves us at last...— and in this view alone — never for despair! . . . The unwearied self-forgetful attention to every phase of the living universe reflected in our... | |
 | 1917 - 958 pagina’s
...cannot be ethical at all. I would fondly believe that its object is purely spectacular.' The cosmos is 'a spectacle for awe, love, adoration, or hate, if you like, but in this view . . . never for despair! Those visions, delicious or poignant, are a moral end in themselves. . . .... | |
 | Wilson Follett - 1915 - 136 pagina’s
...Nostromo interlocks, too, with the author's final word about his purely spectacular cosmos: ". . . a spectacle for awe, love, adoration, or hate, if you like, but in this view— and in this view alone—never for despair! . . . In this view there is room for every religion except for the inverted... | |
 | Andrew Gibson, R. G. Hampson, Robert Hampson - 1998 - 212 pagina’s
...insignificant than a drop of water in the ocean, more fleeting than the illusion of a dream. Would you? The ethical view of the universe involves us at last...spectacle for awe, love, adoration or hate.... ~ If Conrad in A Personal Record finally sounds a note of optimism, arguing that * [t]hose visions, delicious... | |
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