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... animal kingdom , and is gradually taking control of the forces of nature . It is the best tool we have , and because it is the best , we are driven irresistibly to use it . And how strange that some of us can find no better use for it ...
... animal kingdom , and is gradually taking control of the forces of nature . It is the best tool we have , and because it is the best , we are driven irresistibly to use it . And how strange that some of us can find no better use for it ...
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... animal loves and seeks by instinct to preserve the life which it knows - that is to say , its own life and the life of its young . The wolf knows noth- ing about the feelings of a deer ; but man in his savage state develops reasoning ...
... animal loves and seeks by instinct to preserve the life which it knows - that is to say , its own life and the life of its young . The wolf knows noth- ing about the feelings of a deer ; but man in his savage state develops reasoning ...
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... animals which are most numerous and most successful . There are many millions of ants and bees for every hawk or eagle , and certainly in the state of nature there were thousands of deer for every lion or tiger that preyed upon them ...
... animals which are most numerous and most successful . There are many millions of ants and bees for every hawk or eagle , and certainly in the state of nature there were thousands of deer for every lion or tiger that preyed upon them ...
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... animal from the vegetable kingdom , despite the fact that in their lower forms they cannot be distinguished . What , precisely , is the difference between nature and man ? The difference lies in the fact that nature is apparently blind ...
... animal from the vegetable kingdom , despite the fact that in their lower forms they cannot be distinguished . What , precisely , is the difference between nature and man ? The difference lies in the fact that nature is apparently blind ...
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... animals , but fat men to eat the fat animals . In a state of nature no animal loafs very long ; it has to go out and hunt its food again . But man , by his superior cunning , compels the animals to work for him , and also his fellow men ...
... animals , but fat men to eat the fat animals . In a state of nature no animal loafs very long ; it has to go out and hunt its food again . But man , by his superior cunning , compels the animals to work for him , and also his fellow men ...
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Page 196 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 197 - Nor ruin make accusers great; Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And have nothing, yet hath all.
Page 197 - Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend.
Page 39 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 44 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 174 - I would not like to guess just what percentage of dying people in our hospitals might be saved if the doctors would withdraw all food from them...
Page 21 - ... reactionary (according as he placed his good either in the future or the past), or, thirdly, pessimistic, as in the poetry of regret or of despair. Hesiod sings of a lost golden age, and in this he represents the most pervading sentiment of ancient culture. Dante, on the other hand, had fixed his gaze on ' one far off divine event, towards which the whole Creation moves.
Page 41 - I say to you that if you want to find happiness in this life, look with distrust upon all absolutes, and ultimates, all hard and fast rules, all formulas and dogmas and "general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific...
Page 41 - ... general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific attitude toward life; this is the way of growth and of true success. It is inconvenient, because it involves working your brains, and most people have not been taught...
Page 173 - I have known of two or three cases of people dying while they were fasting," Sinclair writes in his Book of Life, "but I feel quite certain that the fast did not cause their death, they would have died anyhow.