 | James Thomson - 1888 - 208 pages
...I • Creator of all woe and sin ! abhorred, Malignant and implacable ! I vow • • 1 ( (X • " That not for all Thy power furled and unfurled, For...ignominious guilt Of having made such men in such a world." " As if a Being, God or Fiend, could reign, At once so wicked, foolish, and insane, As to produce men... | |
 | American fiction - 1924 - 570 pages
...of The City an inhabitant, reviewing his frustrated hopes, voices this conception of the Deity :— Who is most wretched in this dolorous place? I think...ignominious guilt Of having made such men in such a world. A curious anticipation this, it may be remarked incidentally, of the poetic philosophy of Thomas Hardy.... | |
 | American fiction - 1924 - 550 pages
...being, God and Lord! Creator of all woe and sin! abhorred, Malignant and implacable ! I vow That not fur all Thy power furled and unfurled, For all the temples...ignominious guilt Of having made such men in such a world. A curious anticipation this, it may be remarked incidentally, of the poetic philosophy of Thomas Hardy.... | |
 | James Thompson - English poetry - 1895 - 482 pages
...humble soul would arrogate Unto itself some signalising hate From the supreme indifference of Fate ! " " Who is most wretched in this dolorous place ? I think...ignominious guilt Of having made such men in such a world." " The world rolls round for ever like a mill; It grinds out death and life and good and ill; It has... | |
 | James Thomson - 1895 - 504 pages
...soul would arrogate i, Unto itself some signalising hate From the supreme indifference of Fate ! " " Who is most wretched in this dolorous place? I think...ignominious guilt Of having made such men in such a world." "As if a Being, God or Fiend, could reign, At once so wicked, foolish, and insane, As to produce men... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 374 pages
...unreservedly, I should say (in spite of its sounding blasphemous at first to certain ears) that the initial step towards getting into healthy ultimate...the eternal fires of hell. Some of them have found humaner gods to worship, others are simply converts from all theology ; but, both alike, they assure... | |
 | William James - Life - 1896 - 82 pages
...and I shook base Fear away from me forever. . . . "Thus had the Everlasting No pealed authoritative!' through all the recesses of my being, of my ME ; and...garden and the serpent and preappointed the eternal fires_of hell. Some of them have found humaner Gods to \¥or§hjp, others are simply converts from... | |
 | Reginald John Campbell - Congregational churches - 1903 - 296 pages
...formed such creatures to His own disgrace. The vilest thing must be less vile than Thou From whom it has its being, God and Lord, Creator of all woe and sin,...ignominious guilt Of having made such men in such a world." That mood, in varying degrees, is found among all classes of men in England to-day. It presents a serious... | |
 | Ethics - 1905 - 352 pages
...Everlasting No had said : 'Behold, thou art fatherless, outcast, and the Universe is mine'; towhich my whole ME now made answer : 'I am not thine, but...guilt Of having made such men in such a world." We arc familiar enough in this community with the spectacle of persons exulting in their emancipation... | |
 | Calvin Weiss Laufer - Christian life - 1911 - 176 pages
...that challenged James Thomson, the apostle of pessimism, to write : "Not for all Thy power furled or unfurled, For all the temples to Thy glory built,...assume the ignominious guilt Of having made such men and such a world." But such is neither God, nor the world. God does not stand aloft in chilling and... | |
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Who is most wretched in this dolorous place? I think myself; yet I would rather be My miserable self than He, than He Who formed such creatures to His own disgrace. "The vilest thing must be less vile than Thou From whom it had its being, God and Lord!... 
