 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1903 - 902 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blackness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach...through the ages, the long unbroken succession of fortune tellers — and they flourish still — witnesses to the perpetually smoldering feeling that... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - History - 1913 - 78 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blankness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach...they flourish still — witnesses to the perpetually smoldering feeling that after all there may be a better sort of knowledge — a more serviceable sort... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - 1924 - 442 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blankness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach...that alone gives the past its enormous predominance hi our thoughts. But through the ages, the long unbroken succession of fortune-tellers— and they... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Political Science - 1927 - 188 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blankness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach...they flourish still — witnesses to the perpetually smoldering feeling that after all there may be a better sort of knowledge — a more serviceable sort... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Socialism - 1927 - 184 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blankness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach...through the ages, the long unbroken succession of fortune-tellers—and they flourish still —witnesses to the perpetually smoldering feeling that after... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 900 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blackness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach...they flourish still — witnesses to the perpetually smoldering feeling that after all there may be a better sort of knowledge — a more serviceable sort... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1903 - 960 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blackness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach to things from the events tbat have certainly happened with regard to them. It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion... | |
 | Edward Cornish - Business & Economics - 1977 - 322 pages
...future, I was recently assured by a friend, than you can know which way a kitten will jump next. ... It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion...through the ages, the long unbroken succession of fortune tellers— and they flourish still— witnesses to the perpetually smouldering feeling that... | |
 | Edward Cornish - Education - 2004 - 348 pages
...is possible to know anything about the future. "It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion that ignorance is absolutely incurable that alone...the past its enormous predominance in our thoughts," he wrote. "But through the ages, the long unbroken succession of fortune tellers — and they flourish... | |
 | Patrick A. Duin - Forecasting - 2006 - 286 pages
...convulsive surprises, as an impenetrable, incurable, perpetual blankness, it is right and reasonable to derive such values as it is necessary to attach...fortune-tellers and they flourish still - witnesses to that perpetually smoldering feeling that after all there may be a better sort of knowledge - a more... | |
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It is our ignorance of the future and our persuasion that that ignorance is absolutely incurable that alone gives the past its enormous predominance in our thoughts. 