 It is a curious thing that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It flashes across me at all sorts of times with a sort of horror that in 1900 I shall probably know no more of what is going on than...  New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine - Page 5031903Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1918 - 740 pages
...his hope, for immortality: It is a curious thing that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 586 pages
...as soon as vigour flags. It is a curious thing that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 584 pages
...as soon as vigour flags. It is a curious thing that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1901 - 626 pages
...1 1, page 62) he says : "It is a curious thing that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate... | |
 | 1902 - 970 pages
...Morley one day he confessed: "It is R curious thing that T find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It flashes across me at times with a sort of horror that in 1900 I shall probably know no more of what is going on than I did... | |
 | Jonathan Brierley - 1904 - 330 pages
...science which speaks in a sentence like this : we quote from a letter of Huxley to John Morley : " It flashes across me at all sorts of times with a...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I would sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles. ... I wonder if... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1906 - 386 pages
...and to that almost terrible, comfortless, and grim cry in the letter of his friend Thomas Huxley ? Let me quote the letter first — " I find my dislike...probably know no more of what is going on than I did in 1 800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate... | |
 | William Rogers Richards - 1905 - 248 pages
...curious thing," he writes to his friend Morley, " that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate, in one of the upper circles. . :.. . I wonder... | |
 | Charles Lewis Slattery - 1907 - 156 pages
...his answer: "It is a curious thing," he wrote, "that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate... | |
 | Charles Edward Garman, Eliza Miner Garman - 1909 - 652 pages
...letter to Morley says : " It is a curious thing that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It...know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate... | |
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