 | John Philip Newman - 1883 - 156 Seiten
...first-fruits, for it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained it, which is never perfect. Its law is progress ; a point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-point to-morrow.' ' Let us now place side by side two Scotchmen, David Hume and Thomas Chalmers,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 Seiten
...first-fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be ita starting-post to-morrow.' " 1 ES SAYS. I. — OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; l... | |
 | 1884 - 668 Seiten
...evidences must be continually revised. We might apply to them that which Macaulay has said of science, "a point which, yesterday, was invisible, is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Its manuals must drop out some statements, modify others, and insert new... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 Seiten
...it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law i« ington Macaulay starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
 | Alfred Ritter von Urbanitzky - 1886 - 922 Seiten
...cars which whirl along without horses. These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first-fruits. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." INDEX. Abdank-Abakanowicz' Call Apparatus, 700 Accumulators, 427 Achard Electric... | |
 | 1895 - 1074 Seiten
...histology, and of chemistry shall surely illumine so much that now is obscure, then the watchword will be Progress. "A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post tomorrow." Then, indeed, will the Tree of Life afresh put forth its leaves that shall... | |
 | Alfred F. Robbins - 1888 - 232 Seiten
...it is a philosophy which never rests, by which finality is never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-point to-morrow." The future also has been attempted to be sketched — how imperfectly no... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. of starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1891 - 616 Seiten
...wrote, — " It is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting point to-morrow." Japan, in re entering international communication, came suddenly into contact with... | |
 | American Public Health Association - 1891 - 430 Seiten
...for it is an activity which never rests, which has never attained its end, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." intended neither to baffle man in the sphere of conduct, or confound him... | |
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For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow. 
