 | 1881 - 622 pages
...philosophy based upon ' cause and effect ' suits all ages, all climes; it satisfies and stimulates. The point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-point to-morrow. It is a creed that ever urges mankind on, which never rests, which lias never... | |
 | 1869 - 604 pages
...it has been truly said, that " It U n philosophy which never rests — its law is progress : a poiut which yesterday was invisible, is its goal to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow." Yes, gentlemen, we cannot contemplate the vast changes that have taken placo... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits ; for it is...— which is never perfect. Its law is progress." You see from this, if you are disposed to be enlightened, that instead of the antediluvians having... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...along without horses, and the ocean in ships which • sail against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits, and ' of its first fruits. For it is...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... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...ocean in ships which sail against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruit. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained it, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which was yesterday invisible is its goal... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...and of its first fruifk. For it is a rbilnjophy which never rests, which has never attained it, ^hich is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which...to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." [Tan id, and last, In our next number.] THE MOTHER FOR HER SON. ВТ BW HUN TING TON. Oh God* the giver... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1838 - 576 pages
...SOCIETY OF LONDON, ETC. AUTHOR OF " PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY." " It is a philosophy which never rests — its law is progress : a point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting post to-mor.ow."— EDIN. REV., No, 132. p. 83. July 1837. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE... | |
 | 508 pages
...the ocean in ships winch ran ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but a part of its fmits, and of its first fruits ; for it is a philosophy which never rests—which bas never attained—which is never perfect. Its law is progress." You see from this,... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against the wind. These arc but a pert of its fruits, and of its first fruits. For it is a phibsnphy which never rests, which has never attained :t, wnich is never perfect. Its law is progress.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pages
...run ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first frints ; for it is a philosophy which never rests — which...— which is never perfect. Its law is progress." You see from this, if you are disposed to be enlightened, that instead of the antediluvians having... | |
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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. 
