 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1927 - 858 pages
...the Oxford Diocesan Society on November 25, 1864, he had given utterance to this oracular remark : ' The question is this — is man an ape or an angel ? My Lord, I am cm the side of the angels ' ; and subsequently received the somewhat (in this case) doubtful honour... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 652 pages
...before society with the glib assurance which to mo is most astounding ? That question is this — Is a man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abherrence these new-fangled theories. I believe they are foreign to the conscience of humanity; and... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 736 pages
...Society (Nov. 25, 1864), the much-vexed question as to the origin of man. " The question is this : Is a man an ape or an angel ? My lord, I am on the side of the angels."— Irving, 532. In " Tancred " the same question is discussed in a similar manner. Talking of " The Revelation... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 544 pages
...which to me is most astonishing ? The question is this — is a man an ape or an angel ? My lord, / am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these newfangled theories. I believe they are foreign to the conscience of humanity ; and I say more,... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - 1880 - 354 pages
...Society (Nov. 25, 1864), the much vexed question as to the origin of man. " The question is this — Is a man an ape or an angel ? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. " — Irving, 685. In " Tancred" the same question is discussed in a similar manner. 'I alkmg of the... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1880 - 450 pages
...ridiculous by summing up the scientific discussions of that time as follows: — " The question is — Is man an ape or an angel ? My lord, I am on the side of the angel." It may well be asked whether he really meant this, or whether it was only accepted as the necessary... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1880 - 410 pages
...ridiculous by summing up the scientific discussions of that time as follows: — " The question is—-Is man an ape or an angel ? My lord, I am on the side of the angeL" It may well be asked whether he really meant this, or whether it was only accepted as the necessary... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...glib assurance which to me is most astounding ? That question is this — is man an ape or an angel ? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new-fangled theories." Asian Mystery and Batavian Grace. — During the discussions in committee... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Great Britain - 1881 - 274 pages
...church. What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance the most astounding ? The question is this — Is man an ape or an angel...I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity: more than that, even in the strictest intel• The theory of evolution had never any attractions for... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 408 pages
...glib assurance which is to me most astonishing ? The question is this—is a man an ape or an angel ? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate •with indignation and abhorrence these new-fangled theories. Oxford Diocesan Society for Increasing Small Benefices. What art was to... | |
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What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance the most astounding ? The question is this — Is man an ape or an angel ? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. 
