...evolving Nature strikes at the very heart of religious faith, or at least of optimistic religious faith: Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life. . . . 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries 'A thousand...

...Turgot, Smith and Kant as the motor of human progress had already been accepted as part of "nature":14 Are God and Nature then at strife. That Nature lends...the type she seems So careless of the single life; That I. considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds. And finding that of fifty seeds She...

...Turgot, Smith and Kant as the motor of human progress had already been accepted as part of "nature": l4 Are God and Nature then at strife. That Nature lends...the type she seems So careless of the single life; That I. considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds. And rinding that of fifty seeds She...

...of the lines of Tennyson: That nature lends such evil dreams? Are God and nature, then, at strife, So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. Hence, when a race once seats itself permanently in a land it is almost as impossible to get rid of...

...masterpiece In Memoriom (a work written in the aftermath of the tragic early death of a dear friendl: Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends such evil dreams? 5o careful of the type she seems 5o careless of the single life . . . '5o careful of the type?' but...

...values, which in Stanza 55 of 'In Memoriam' are epitomized by the two personified entities at strife: 'Are God and Nature then at strife,/ That Nature lends...the type she seems,/ So careless of the single life' (1l. 5-8). 23 Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, trans, by Helene Iswolky (Bloomington: Indiana...

...explain to an individual deer about to be shot or to one who had just lost a mate or a parent. But then, Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...the type she seems, So careless of the single life. . . . 8 It remains, however, that even for the hapless victims of nature's cruelties, life is experienced...

...the very next section by exposing the religious premise of elegiac consolation as a transparent wish ("The wish, that of the living whole / No life may fail beyond the grave" [55:1—2]), clung to by the poet only because it coincides with his desperation. Whereas Tennyson...

...interpretation on the works of the Deity. In the famous lyric 55 of In Memoriam, his speaker asks: "Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?" His answer to this question, and to all those questions that seem to pose a purposeless universe, places...

...which you were an unfortunate victim, is beneficent in its general action (like so many laws of Nature 'So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life,') as you would allow if you could have seen the College as I knew it years ago, with 70 dogs on the premises,...