What they are after is the beatific vision.

Lincoln's slow progress towards the several marking his achievement is even now unrecognizable as such, and loosely interpreted as the alternation of inconsistency with vision.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

A work so broad, even when it is directed by a leading idea and informed by a moral vision, must necessarily `` fail ''.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

if it is somber, it is also precise, and the precision lends authority to the vision.

He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.

It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.

And yet there is a note of hope, because this same science that is giving us the power of the atom is also giving us atomic vision.

And it is in this new vision of the atom that we find an affirmation and an invigoration of our faith.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

`` All platforms are meaningless: the program of either party is what lies in the vision and conscience of the candidate the party chooses to lead it ''.

The albedo is an important concept in climatology and astronomy, as well as in calculating reflectivity of surfaces in LEED sustainable rating systems for buildings, computer graphics and computer vision.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

Eyes and legs grow quickly, a tongue is formed, and all this is accompanied by associated changes in the neural networks ( development of stereoscopic vision, loss of the lateral line system, etc .).

The vision then embraces the fall of Jerusalem to the hands of foreign invaders and God ’ s anger against Edom for taking advantage of the Jews of Judah during their plight, thus sealing their doom.

Knowledge thus plays an important role in relation to theosis ( deification / personal relationship with God ) and theoria ( revelation of the divine, vision of God ).

It is a dream vision of Christ on the cross, with the cross personified, speaking thus:

However, most political ideologies have their own justifications, and thus their own vision of what constitutes a legitimate state.

Modern quantum mechanics implies that uncertainty is inescapable, and thus that Laplace's vision needs to be amended: a theory of everything must include gravitation and quantum mechanics.

The " bulwark of Christianity " and other slogans put forward by the papal envoy Giuliano Cesarini, together with much more reasonable but only verbal promises of Venetian and papal fleets blockading the Dardanelles Straits, along with an enticing vision of a promise of victory in this glorious crusade carried for the glory of God and against the Turks, persuaded Władysław to engage his freshly victorious forces ( long campaign ) for another season of war, thus breaching the ten-year truce with the aggressive and still powerful Ottoman Empire.

A man of inner perspicacity, in the years of success he was said to have lost his outer vision and thus acquired the name caecus, " blind ".

by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle, they quote " Advanced chemistry thus represents not a rejection of the idea of ' Germanness ', but a vision of multicultural type of ' Germanness '.

Ezekiel's ell, by which he gave measurements in his guided vision through a future Jerusalem Temple, is thus one sixth larger than the standard ell, for which an explanation seems to be suggested by the Book of Chronicles ; the Chronicler writes that Solomon's Temple was built according to " cubits following the first measure ", suggesting that over the course of time the original ell was supplanted by a smaller one.

Michelangelo did not want his version of The Pieta to represent death, but rather to show the " religious vision of abandonment and a serene face of the Son ", thus the representation of the communion between man and God by the sanctification through Christ.

1 ) Communicate the Executive ’ s strategic vision to Congress, and thus legitimize its requests for resources.

A small, nondenominational Christian church sits on a hill overlooking the town, thus emphasizing Barker's vision of a Christian utopia.

Second, because Abraham acted on a prophetic vision of what God had asked him to do, the story exemplifies how prophetic revelation has the same truth value as philosophical argument and thus carries equal certainty, notwithstanding the fact that it comes in a dream or vision.

Lester Pearson's vision of a three-tiered structure to the order was thus fulfilled.

This is purely so that your vision is focused on nothing but the enemy, and thus there is more concentration upon the enemy's stratagems.

This class was also noted for its streamlined design, which not only improved its aerodynamics, thus increasing its speed capabilities, but also created an updraught to lift smoke away from the driver's vision, a problem inherent in many steam locomotives particularly those operated with short cut off valve events, smoke deflectors being an alternative answer to the same problem.

Where the degree of hyperopia is large, the child may not be able to produce clear vision no matter how much extra-accommodation is exerted and thus no incentive exists for the over-accommodation and convergence that can give rise to the onset of esotropia.

Mercury was used in the process of curing felt used in some hats, making it impossible for hatters to avoid inhaling the mercury fumes given off during the hat making process ; hatters and mill workers thus often suffered mad hatter disease, mercury poisoning causing neurological damage including confused speech and distorted vision.

Before the introduction of image intensifiers, night glasses were the only method of night vision, and thus were widely utilized, especially at sea.

Operating on the basis of the fundamental equality of all motifs and supports, through this continual re-arranging, repositioning, questioning and reinforcement, Tillmans avoids ascribing any ‘ conclusions ’ to his work and thus repeatedly subjects his own photographic vision to a perpetual re-contextualization.

By defining the path of learning ( Dao ) in governmental and social terms, the Great Learning links the spiritual realm with daily life, thus creating a vision of the Way ( Dao ) that is radically different than that of non-action as presented by Daoism.

The Lego camera is meant to be used with the included Vision Command software which can also interface with an RCX and thus enables creating robots with " vision ".

However, it is never made explicitly clear how many screens are monitored at once, or what the precise criteria ( if any ) for monitoring a given screen are ( although we do see that during an exercise program that Winston takes part in every morning, the instructor can see him, meaning telescreens are possibly a variant of videophones ); Telescreens do not have night vision technology, thus, they cannot surveil in the dark ; this is compensated by the fact that telescreens are incredibly sensitive, and can pick up a heartbeat.