 ... starves them with hunger, freezes them with cold, poisons them by the quick or slow venom of her exhalations, and has hundreds of other hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed. All this, Nature...  Introduction to Religious Philosophy - Էջ 297Y. Masih - 1991 - 410 էջՄասամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William Maberry Strickler - 1906 - 292 էջ
...by the quick or slow venom of her exhalations, and has hundreds of other hideous deaths in reserve. All this nature does with the most supercilious disregard...mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the 30 best and noblest indifferently with the meanest and worst. She mows down those on whose existence... | |
 | 1910 - 432 էջ
...philosophy. Nature ceases to be unmoral and unethical and the terrible indictment of Mill that "she acts with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy...best and noblest indifferently with the meanest and the worst" when her workings are studied in the light of this metaphysical principle, loses all its... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1911 - 304 էջ
...hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard,...of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and the noblest indifferently with the meanest and worst.1 " [She is] replete with everything which when... | |
 | Charles Harris - 1914 - 668 էջ
...hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy 210 PHYSICAL EVIL AND MAN and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest indifferently... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1918 - 566 էջ
...other hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabi or a Domitian never surpassed. All this, Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice." In this judgment — and there are pages of similar moral denunciation — the reference to the happiness... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 էջ
...Mechanical processes are indiscriminate in their distribution of goods and evils to the just and the unjust: All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard...often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts; and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them. She mows down those on whose existence hangs... | |
 | 1918 - 850 էջ
...other hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabi or a Domitian never surpassed. All this, Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice." In this judgment — and there are pages of similar moral denunciation — the reference to the happiness... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1920 - 488 էջ
...indiscriminate in their distribution of goods and evils to the just and the unjust: All this Nature'does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy...often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts; and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them. She mows down those on whose existence hangs... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1920 - 488 էջ
...Mechanical processes are indiscriminate in their distribution of goods and evils to the just and the unjust: All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard...engaged in the highest and worthiest enterprises, acd often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts; and it might almost be imagined as a punishment... | |
 | Edwin Lewis - 1924 - 396 էջ
...hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard...often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts ; and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them. . . . Next to taking life (equal to it,... | |
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