 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1872 - 522 pages
...aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes of a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes and fears, only with the truth, so far as our reason allows us to discover it. And we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1871 - 540 pages
...hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability ; and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 538 pages
...his lowly origin." PAST n. — THE FUTURE OF MAN. The sentence from Darwin, which I have just read, " We are not here concerned with hopes and fears, only with the truth," and the following sentence from Huxley's celebrated Edinburgh lecture, " Why trouble ourselves about... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 530 pages
...aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes of a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes and fears, only with the truth, so far as our reason allows us to discover it. And we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man,... | |
 | 1878 - 794 pages
...to many minds, but, as Mr. Darwin points out, " we aro not here concerned with hopes or fears, but only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given," he adds, " the evidence to the best of my ability :" and, whatever the ultimate vordict... | |
 | 1878 - 802 pages
...to many minds, but, as Mr. Darwin points out, " we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, but only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given," he adds, " the evidence to the best of my ability :" and, whatever the ultimate verdict... | |
 | Royal Society of New South Wales - Science - 1884 - 400 pages
...past ages seems fairly to justify. He says : " We are not, however, concerned with hopes or fears, but only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it." " I have given the evidence to the best of my ability ; and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me,... | |
 | Robert Hartmann - Apes - 1885 - 402 pages
...hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth, as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability : and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 232 pages
...hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability ; and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that... | |
 | Science - 1875 - 800 pages
...characteristic utterance of the true devotee of science : " But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability." These untiring students ask only unrestricted... | |
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But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. 
