 Here, however, I touch a theme too great for me to handle, but which will assuredly be handled by the loftiest minds, when you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2401918Full view - About this book
 | Paul Tidman - 1877 - 260 pages
...repeated by one of its ablest and most brilliant exponents. Prof. Tyndall's anticipation of the time, " when you and I like streaks of morning cloud, shall...have melted into the infinite azure of the past." recalls to us voices, which one of old time rebuked. " We are born at all adventure and we shall be... | |
 | Sir Frederick Bateman - Evolution - 1877 - 262 pages
...not be understood by the loftiest mind in far distant ages, when the scientists of the present day l like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past.' The question of the origin of the human race has been treated too much as a zoological subject, ignoring... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - Islands - 1878 - 204 pages
...dimmer before my eyes. The world, as it is to be, is ever growing brighter.' HARRIET MARTINEAU. '. . . When you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall...have melted into the infinite azure of the past.' PROFESSOR TYNDALL. ' We, too, turn our thoughts to that which is behind the veil. We strive to pierce... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - Christian life - 1878 - 320 pages
...successive deities, it appears, is to be a theme which " will be handled by the loftiest minds ages after you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past." I take a higher view of human progress than to believe " the loftiest minds " of any coming generation... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1879 - 474 pages
...affirm this to be a field for the noblest exercise of what, in contrast with the knowing faculties, may be called the creative faculties of man. Here,...shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past. X. APOLOGY FOR THE BELFAST ADDRESS. 1874. THE world has been frequently informed of late that I have... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...of telling of its infinite littleness. Tyndall even seems to gloat over the fact that ages hence ' you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past.' One cannot help remarking the seeming inconsistency of the ruling tone of thought. While the misery... | |
 | Reverend Thomas Mitchell - Spiritualism - 1880 - 260 pages
...must quit a theme too great for me to handle ; but it will be handled by the loftiest minds ages after you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past." SEARCHING IK THE WROHS DIRECTION FOR LIFE. In the search after life, Professor Huxley has carried us... | |
 | Annie Besant - Free thought - 1885 - 466 pages
...explanation. I, for one, am content not to know. Here, however, I would eïid, saying with Tyndall : " I touch a theme too great for me to handle, but which...have melted into the infinite azure of the past." L. SMALL. j0 rm atjfc <£ alm . SUCH peace as is the moon's is mine, Who, gazing from the flying car,... | |
 | George Nathaniel Henry Peters - Covenant theology - 1884 - 846 pages
...TyndaH's Inaugural Address, which, cleaving to a gross materialistic religion, expresses the hope that "you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past." What a contrast! So, also, compare our view with the vague, indefinite, spiritualistic views so prevalent... | |
 | John Tulloch - First philosophy - 1884 - 502 pages
...quit a theme too great for me to handle, but which will be handled by the loftiest minds ages after you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past." This bit of rhetorical pathos has been removed in the Address as formally published, and two quotations... | |
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