 ... the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will...  The Monist - 132. lappuselaboja - 1921Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Sister Mary Verda - 1926 - 216 lapas
...stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period . . . the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. . . . 'Imperishable monuments' and... | |
 | Herbert Leslie Stewart - 1927 - 416 lapas
...when the energies of the Sun shall have been dimmed, and the Earth — tideless and inert — shall no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude.26 But Anatole France, like Lord Balfour, reminds himself how it is not so wonderful that... | |
 | Edwin Emery Slosson - 1928 - 344 lapas
...some time we should all be Eskimos and then go into cold storage forever. As Lord Balfour put it : " The energies of our system will decay; the glory of...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. ' ' Then radium came to the rescue. Both the earth and the sun, it was found, had internal self-heaters,... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1950 - 504 lapas
...the individual life but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.... | |
 | D. P. Crook, David Paul Crook - 1984 - 488 lapas
...with individual life, but short indeed, compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The 'scientific optimists', men like... | |
 | Hynes, Mary Kistler - 1985 - 263 lapas
...the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts perish. The uneasy consciousness which in this obscure... | |
 | William James - 1988 - 1410 lapas
...of the universe which evolutionary science foresees. I can not state it better than in Mr. Balfour's words: "The energies of our system will decay, the...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness which in... | |
 | Steven Vogel - 1988 - 384 lapas
...little attention; Pilobolus is the fashionably physical fungus. CHAPTER 15 Energy and afterthoughts "The energies of our system will decay, the glory...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude." Arthur James Balfour, inadvertent thermodynamicist IT WAS force that gave coherence to the Newtonian... | |
 | Derek Ager, Derek Victor Ager - 1995 - 256 lapas
...British philosopher Arthur Balfour, who became Prime Minister at the beginning of this century, wrote: 'The energies of our system will decay, the glory...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish'. A similarly pessimistic note is struck... | |
 | Roger Adelson - 1995 - 272 lapas
...the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of...race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.1 Balfour led an active social and... | |
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