 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 486 Seiten
...us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of ^ ^»-Xr Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...world, after all our science and sciences, is still 5 a miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thinrgreat mystery... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 Seiten
...us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all 5 science swims as a mere superficial film. This world,...magical, and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Charles Campbell Pierce - 1906 - 266 Seiten
...done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whomsoever will think of it." It is well to know as much as we can. It is right to attempt to know.... | |
 | 1906 - 602 Seiten
...are profitable company." He regrets that people have ceased to wonder at the miracles around them. "This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle ; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." Again he says, "We touch Heaven when we lay our hand... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1907 - 334 Seiten
...done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other ; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1908 - 96 Seiten
...done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." — Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, pp. 7, 8. TOPICS FOR STUDY AND DISCUSSION 1. Compare, in ethical... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 516 Seiten
...done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other : the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called... | |
 | Alfred George Gardiner - 1908 - 430 Seiten
...levity, our inattention, our want of insight. It is by not thinking that we cease to wonder at it. ... This world, after all our science and sciences, is...miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whomsoever will think of it." It is this elemental faculty of wonder, of which Carlyle speaks, that... | |
 | Glasgow University Society of St. Ninian - 1908 - 310 Seiten
...says Carlyle. " But it is a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all Science swims as a mere superficial film " (Heroes i.). This wholesome, though perhaps humiliating consciousness of our ignorance may tend to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1910 - 152 Seiten
...done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which...inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. What in such a time as ours it requires a Prophet or Poet to teach us, namely, the stripping-off of... | |
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... electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk; but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great... 
