 | 1889 - 902 sider
...completely as I do, and with a great deal less ceremony, as the following passage will demonstrate : Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges...destruction ; a victim to endless illusions which, as often as cot, make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - 1900 - 508 sider
...which is so unutterably saddening as the evolution of humanity, as set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than other brutes; a blind prey to impulses, which so... | |
 | 1891 - 686 sider
...inhumanities of this long and disgraceful contest. Let us come nearer home in time and place and revie.va sad chapter in our own American history. The idea...fill his physical life with barren toil and battle." Religion came to man among his earliest acquirements. The religious idea is one of growth. Its process... | |
 | 1889 - 1040 sider
...unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges...fill his physical life with barren toil and battle. He attains a certain degree of physical comfort, and develops a more or less workable 192 THE NINETEENTH... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 sider
...unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges...fill his physical life with barren toil and battle. He attains a certain degree of physical comfort, and develops a more or less workable theory of life,... | |
 | 1889 - 1104 sider
...unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges...fill his physical life with barren toil and battle. He attains a certain degree of physical comfort, and develops a more or less workable theory of life,... | |
 | 1889 - 902 sider
...unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges...fill his physical life with barren toil and battle. He attains a certain degree of physical comfort, and develops a more or less workable theory of life,... | |
 | 1889 - 928 sider
...completely as I do, and with a great deal less ceremony, as the following passage will demonstrate : Oat of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with...destruction ; a victim to endless illusions which, as often as cot, make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren... | |
 | 1889 - 916 sider
...unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges...only more intelligent than the other brutes ; a blind pi'ey to impulses, which as often as not lead him to destruction ; a victim to iless illusions, which... | |
 | 1890 - 664 sider
...that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the dai-lmami of prehistoric ages, man emerges with the marks of...not lead him to destruction ; a victim to endless illasions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren... | |
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I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute,... 
