...comforted you in sorrow, strengthened you for noble duty, and made the world beautiful for you. . . . One God, one law, one element, and one far-off divine event to which the whole creation moves. — Olympia Brown THE HEALTHY CHURCH demands a high-stakes relationship with...

...Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race . . . Whereof the man, that with me trod This planet, was...times were ripe, That friend of mine who lives in God. Not everyone felt this way about Chambers's vision. The Providentialists hated Vestiges. For Adam Sedgwick,...

...such as truth, moral good, and beauty. Alfred Lord Tennyson expressed this point of view in his verse: That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one...divine event, To which the whole creation moves. The French philosopher Henri Bergson, who posited a life principle (the Elan Vital) in the universe, introduced...

...consciousness which at the outset contained a germ of truth obscured by multitudinous errors.' ' ' One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.' Coming at last to Mr. Tylor, we find that he begins by dismissing the idea that...

...behind the veil." 69 Despite that pessimistic comment on nature, Tennyson believed in theoevolution: That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one...element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. 70 He affirmed in "Crossing the Bar" that "I hope to see my Pilot face to face...

...mystical words now inscribed in the magnificent rotunda of the Library of Congress in Washington — "One God, One Law, One Element, and One Faroff Divine Event to Which the Whole Creation Moves." The unity — the singleness — the oneness — the simplicity of Tennyson's lyric verse is something...

...the magnificent rotunda of the Library of Congress in Washington — "One God, One Law, One FJement, and One Faroff Divine Event to Which the Whole Creation Moves." The unity — the singleness — the oneness — the simplicity of Tennyson's lyric verse is something...

...thought and loved and did, And hoped, and suffer'd, is but seed Of what in them is flower and fruit; Whereof the man, that with me trod This planet, was...element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.27 Tennyson's eulogized friend, Hallam, figures here as the herald, or advance...

...Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race. . . Whereof the man, that with me trod This planet, was...times were ripe, That friend of mine who lives in God. Finally, mention the general man of letters and science, Herbert Spencer, in the 1850s just beginning...

...gathering and consummation of creation up into the Omega-Christ. As Tennyson put it, That God, that ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves. (In Memoriamt Epilogue, 11.141-144) 5.3 Evaluative oppositions We have now considered...