 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 556 pagina’s
...closed, and man's destinies are fulfilled in this earth. ' It is a height to which the human species were fated and enabled to attain ; and from which, having once attained it, they can never retrograde.' These things, which it were far out of our place to attempt adequately elucidating here, must not be... | |
 | D. Brown Anderson - 1899 - 398 pagina’s
...T s—and that is very true even to the letter, as I consider—a height to which the human species was fated and enabled to attain, and from which, having once attained it, it can never retrograde. It cannot descend down below that permanently, Goethe's idea is." " Often... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 550 pagina’s
...closed, and man's destinies are fulfilled in this earth. ' It is a height to which the human species were fated and enabled to attain ; and from which, having once attained it, they can never retrograde.1 These things, which it were far out of our place to attempt adequately elucidating here,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 504 pagina’s
...closed, and man's destinies are fulfilled in this earth. " It is a height to which the human species were fated and enabled to attain ; and from which, having once attained it, they can never retrograde." These things, which it were far out of our place to attempt adequately elucidating here, must not be... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 446 pagina’s
...— and that is very true, even to the letter, as I consider, — a height to which the human species was fated and enabled to attain, and from which, having once attained it, it can never retrograde. It cannot descend down below that permanently, Goethe's idea is. Often one... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 452 pagina’s
...immense power in the culture of man. The third is reverence for what is beneath us; to learn to recognize in pain, in sorrow and contradiction, even in those...calculates there will be found some few souls who will recognize what this highest of the religions meant ; and that, the world having once received it, there... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1904 - 258 pagina’s
...immense power in the culture of man. The third is reverence for what is beneath us; to learn to recognize in pain, in sorrow and contradiction, even in those...degraded, sunken, and unbelieving times, he calculates that there will be found some few souls who will recognize what this highest of the religions meant."... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 440 pagina’s
...learn that there lies in these also, and more than in any of the preceding, a priceless blessing. Ajid he defines that as being the soul of the Christian...calculates there will be found some few souls who will recognize what this highest of t"he religions meant; and that, the world having once received it, there... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 968 pagina’s
...us, has said of this Religion : " It is a Height to which the Hi MAX SPECIES were fitted and destined to attain; and from which, having once attained it, they can never retrograde." 1'ermanently, never. Never, they; — though individual Nations of them fatally can ; of which I hope... | |
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... all but obliterate it in the hearts of most; yet in every pure soul, in every Poet and Wise Man, it finds a new Missionary, a new Martyr, till the great volume of Universal History is finally closed, and man's destinies are fulfilled in this earth.... 
