...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined events,...

...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma .of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined...

...prophesying so oracularly. We judge him not to be a disciple of that inflated school. While it is true enough that " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," none but an incurable egotist will dissent from the poet's confession ; " Knowledge comes, but Wisdom...

...Whether or not " through the ages one increasing purpose runs," as the poet has it, it is certainly true that " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Now, when we examine the brain of the lowest savage, whom we need not be too proud to look upon as...

...413. Perfectly adapted to his time. A liberal conserva" tive : In politics. Artistic reverence. sees that " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," but is not the man to lead a reform, or to disturb the pleasant conditions in which his lot is cast....

...while recognising the law of progress, to make no undue effort to hasten the order of events. He sees that "the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," but is not the man to lead a reform, or to disturb the pleasant conditions in which his lot is cast....

...mean the progressive continuity of human progress. And the corresponding doctrine of Buddhism is not that "the thoughts of men are " widened with the process of the suns," but that there are recurring cycles of improvement and decay. It is true that the Buddhist duty of...

...mean the progressive continuity of human progress. And the corresponding doctrine of Buddhism is not that "the thoughts of men are " widened with the process of the suns," but that there are recurring cycles of improvement and decay. It is true that the Buddhist duty of...

...knowledge being far greater than the increase of individual mental power. He believes, with the poet, that "the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," though he clothes his creed in different words, saying, " I do not doubt that the average mental power...

...knowledge being far greater than the increase of individual mental power. He believes, with the poet, that "the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," though he clothes his creed in different words, saying, " I do not doubt that the average mental power...