...Circumstances attendant on. Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would bo nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of...which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our streni".1. is measured by our plastic power. From ths same materials one man builds palaces. another...

...of walking in any estate. — Leighton. Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstances, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstances. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstances. Our strength is measured...

...assimilates, from surrounding circumstance, that which is by it assimilable, rejecting the rest. . . . Man is the architect of circumstance. It is character...circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. . . Circumstance can create no faculty : it is food, not nutrition ; opportunity, not character. ......

...assimilable, rejecting the rest. . . . Atan is the architect of circumstance. It is character wlrch builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. . . Circumstance can create no faculty : it is food, not nutrition ; opportunity, not character. ....

...— good or bad — which these conditions suggest. " Instead," says Lewes in his Life of Goethe, " of saying that man is the creature of circumstance,...character which builds an existence out of circumstance." In forming our estimate of character, therefore, we should refer much more than we commonly do to what...

...to work, — the stepping-stones he is to mount by. As Lewes says in his "Life of Goethe," instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance,...nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstances. " Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds...

...man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl. Young: REFLECTIONS. T NSTEAD of saying that man is the creature of circumstance,...circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. — CARLYLE. CTje rjeart of tljc íinár teacijetl) Ijiá moullj, imtt atrtrdi) learning Ío ljtó...

...to work, — the stepping-stones he is to mount by. As Lewes says in his " Life of Goethe," instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance,...nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstances. " Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds...

...to work, — the stepping-stones he is to mount by. As Lewes says in his " Life of Goethe," instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance,...nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstances. " Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds...

...foremost rank of those who have thrown light over ravelled questions of controversy, remarks, " Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance,...say that man is the architect of circumstance."* It would therefore he unjust to imply that adversaries of co-operative doctrines, clerical or lay, always...