 | Alfred North Whitehead - Science - 1925 - 308 pages
...imagination as it exists today, are the great tragedians of ancient Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...incidents, as an example and a verification of the workings of fate, reappears in our epoch as concentration of interest on the crucial experiments. It... | |
 | Alfred North Whitehead - Science - 1925 - 328 pages
...imagination as it exists today, are the great tragedians of ancient Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...incidents, as an example and a verification of the workings of fate, reappears in our epoch as concentration of interest on the crucial experiments. It... | |
 | Alfred North Whitehead - Science - 1925 - 330 pages
...imagination as it exists today are the great tragedians of ancient Athens. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...possessed by science. Fate in Greek Tragedy becomes, \ the order_pf nature in modern thought. The \'. ."."* absorbing interest in the particular heroic incidents,... | |
 | Harold Lawton Bruce, Guy Montgomery - College readers - 1927 - 600 pages
...imagination as it exists today, are the great tragedians of ancient Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...incidents^ as an example and a verification of the workings of fate, reappears in our epoch as concentration of interest on the crucial experiments. It... | |
 | E. Mendelsohn, Y. Elkana - History - 1981 - 300 pages
...imagination as it exists today aie the great tragedians of ancient Athens: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...Tragedy becomes the order of nature in modern thought (105). To illustrate his point, Whitehead described the meeting of the Royal Society, at which the... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...imagination as it exists today are the great tragedians of ancient Athens: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...Tragedy becomes the order of nature in modern thought ... It was my good fortune to be present at the meeting of the Royal Society in London when the Astronomer... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - Mimesis in literature - 2004 - 230 pages
...imagination as it exists today, are the great tragedians of ancient Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...Tragedy becomes the order of nature in modern thought. Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - Mimesis in literature - 2004 - 230 pages
...imagination as it exists today, are the great tragedians of ancient Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...Fate in Greek Tragedy becomes the order of nature in modem thought. Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 2004 - 244 pages
...contributed the idea of Fate, which facilitated the view that events are rendered necessary by natural laws. 'Fate in Greek Tragedy becomes the order of Nature in modern thought.' The necessitarian view was reinforced by Roman law. The Roman Government, unlike the Oriental despot, acted... | |
 | David Greenham - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 220 pages
...imagination as it exists to-day are the great tragedians of ancient Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent,...Greek Tragedy becomes the order of nature in modern thought:'16 So when any "science" attempts to pursue itself to its own ground, it might well raise... | |
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The pilgrim fathers of the scientific imagination as it exists today, are the great tragedians of ancient Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Their vision of fate, remorseless and indifferent, urging a tragic incident to its inevitable issue, is... 
