 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1876
...not backwards and downwards — of destruction tending to construction. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. A ferment spreading from that source has vitalised all the great progressive races of mankind, penetrating... | |
 | M. KEMPSON - 1866
...against the philosophy which finds expression in another statement in the same eloquent peroration, — "Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin," as blindly ignoring that Omnipotence " which shapes our ends, Bough hew them how we will" SECTION IX.'-BOOKS.... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1892
...a peculiarly happy one. The other day he came across a striking statement of Sir Henry Maine's — "Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." The former influence they could in this Society give some account of. But the latter he regarded with... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1877
...true, as a writer no less sober in his philosophy than eloquent in his language has lately asserted, that, ' except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin,1 we are justified in regarding the point of contact between the Greek teacher Chrysoloras and... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1876 - 413 strani
...and not backwards or downwards, of destruction tending to construction. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. A ferment spreading from that source has vitalised all the great progressive races of mankind, penetrating... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1876
...not backwards and downwards — of destruction tending to construction. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. A ferment spreading from that source has vitalised all the great progressive races of mankind, penetrating... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1877 - 546 strani
...true, as a writer no less sober in his philosophy than eloquent in his language has lately asserted, that, ' except the blind forces of nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin,' we are justified in regarding the point of contact between the Greek teacher Chrysoloras and his Florentine... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879
...and not backwards or downwards, of destruction tending to construction. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. A ferment spreading from that source has vitalised all the great progressive races of mankind, penetrating... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1880 - 413 strani
...and not backwards or downwards, of destruction tending to construction. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. A ferment spreading from that source has vitalised all the great progressive races of mankind, penetrating... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1885 - 546 strani
...true, as a writer no less sober in his philosophy than eloquent in his language has lately asserted, that, ' except the blind forces of nature, nothing...moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin/ we are justified in regarding the point of contact between the Greek teacher Chrysoloras and his Florentine... | |
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That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. 
