 | Charles Whibley - Politicians - 1923 - 312 pages
...is the question,' he asked, ' 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.' Disraeli, always a phrasemaker, was never more happily inspired. The retort upon science assured one-half... | |
 | E. T. Raymond - Great Britain - 1925 - 370 pages
...years after the publication of Tancred he asked at Oxford : Is man an ape or an angel? I, my Lord, am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which I believe foreign to the conscience of humanity. . . . What does the Church teach us ? That man is... | |
 | David Churchill Somervell - Great Britain - 1926 - 330 pages
...the question now placed before society with a glib assurance the most astonishing1? The question is: Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels." What did he really think about these things'? Charges of insincerity should always be proved up to... | |
 | David Churchill Somervell - History - 1926 - 332 pages
...the question now placed before society with a glib assurance the most astonishing? The question is: Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels." What did he really think about these things? Charges of insincerity should always be proved up to the... | |
 | Religion and science - 1926 - 358 pages
...society with a glib assurance the most astounding ? The question is this : Is man an ape or an angel ? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view. . . . The Church teaches us that man is made in the image of his Creator — a source of inspiration... | |
 | David Leslie Murray - Great Britain - 1927 - 324 pages
...pointed dart. " 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.' l This was not really a hit at Darwin. A reference to " metaphysical analysis " shows that Disraeli... | |
 | André Maurois - Disraeli, Benjamin - 1928 - 424 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? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels." A burst of laughter echoed round the amphitheatre. Really? Was Mr. Disraeli on the side of the angels?... | |
 | Law - 1925 - 254 pages
...glib assurance, which is to me most astounding'? That question is this. Is man an ape or an angel 1 I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation...I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity." In the same address Mr. Disraeli bore testimony to the permanence of the eternal Christian verities... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1927 - 778 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 on the side of the angels ' ; and subsequently received the somewhat (in this case) doubtful honour of being immortalised in... | |
 | Colin Bingham - Reference - 1982 - 376 pages
...daily. STENDHAL What is the question now placed before us 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. DISRAELI, SPEAKING AT OXFORD, 1864 Four years earlier, at the Oxford meeting of the British Association,... | |
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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. 
