 | Herbert Spencer - 1851 - 492 lapas
...of adaptation. Y §6. Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline,which is a b'ttle cruel that it may be very kind. That state of universal...that the ruminant animal, when deprived by age of the .vigour which made its existence a pleasure, should be killed by some boast of prey, than that it should... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1880 - 758 lapas
...consult before they undertake the work of giving advice regarding the management of the universe. " Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline,...which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. . . . The development of the higher creation is a progress toward a form of being capable of a happiness... | |
 | 1866 - 444 lapas
...that the infliction of pain may be subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stern discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on among lower animals, whereby those no longer fit to live are spared the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 544 lapas
...it, limit its exercise, check its development, and therefore retard the process of adaptation. § 6. Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline,...that the ruminant animal, when deprived by age of the vigour which made its existence a pleasure, should be killed by some beast of prey, than that it should... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 556 lapas
...and therefore retard the process of adaptation. § 6. Pervading all nature we may sec at work a etern discipline, which is a little cruel that it may be...very kind. That state of universal warfare maintained throughTHE MERCY OF SErERITY. 353 out the lower creation, to the great perplexity of many worthy people,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 540 lapas
...paradox that the infliction of pain is subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stern discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on throughout the animal world, whereby those no longer fit to live are spared... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 562 lapas
...infliction of pain is subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stem discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on throughout the animal world, whereby those no longer fit to live are spared... | |
 | John Fiske - 1875 - 538 lapas
...infliction of pain is subservient to a beneficent end. " Pervading all nature, he sees at work a stem discipline, which is a little cruel, that it may be very kind." That perpetual warfare going on throughout the animal world, whereby those no longer fit to live are spared... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 548 lapas
...it, limit its exercise, check its development, and therefore retard the process of adaptation. § 6. Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline,...very kind. That state of universal warfare maintained throughTHE MERCY OF SEVEEITY. 353 out the lower creation, to the great perplexity of many worthy people,... | |
 | John Coleman Adams - 1888 - 110 lapas
...severities than that we should go unhindered to destruction. " Pervading all nature," says Spencer, " we may see at work a stern discipline which is a little cruel that it may be very kind." That sentence is a key to interpret the asperities of our moral experience. God wounds that He may heal.... | |
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Pervading all Nature we may see at work a stern discipline which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. That state of universal warfare maintained throughout the lower creation, to the great perplexity of many worthy people, is at bottom the most... 
