...not only, as Wordsworth sings, " The child is father of the man," but throughout all moral action, the present is the child of the past, and the parent of the future. In the transition from childhood to youth, and from youth to manhood, and from manhood to old age,...

...the ocean, by a spark of love I can understand God. Love is the sunshine of life. The Present Time. The present is the child of the past and the parent of the future. Disinterestedness. Disinterestedness is the soul of virtue, and the heart of heroism. JTmetty. Honesty...

...with truth " Thou art the man," belittles the issue and renders its peaceable termination less sure. The present is the child of the past and the parent of the future and progress is the law of life running through them all If we can only remember that we shall have no...

...be conceivable that events should depend upon any but the natural sequence of cause and effect." " The present is the child of the past and the parent of the future." " We ignore even as a possibility the notion of any interference with the order of Nature." In a similar...

...Yorkshire churches. History has no more important lesson to teach us than its own continuity ; and the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future, has burst upon the minds of some modern thinkers with the force of a religion. It is good, indeed,...

...around us our own characteristic perception of human history ; we have concluded that in all things the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future. But while we dismiss the theory of permanence as demonstrably false, and the theory of successive cataclysms...

...these from still simpler, and so on, back to the mist of life's beginnings. In other words, we believe that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future. This is the general idea of evolution. But while this general idea, which is a very grand one, is usually...

...CONTINQEN. perception that there are no contingencies. CIES 9 we have come to look upon the present as the child of the past and the parent of the future ; and, as we have excluded chance from a place in the universe, so we ignore, even as a possibility, the notion...

...is not only, as Wordsworth says, " The child is father of the man," but throughout all moral action, the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future. In the transition from childhood to youth, from youth to manhood, and from manhood to old age, in intellectual...

...— The Doctrine of Descent (Trans. formisme of the French, Abstammungslehre of the Germans) means that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future. More concretely, it means that the plants and animals of the present day are the transformed descendants...