The Philosophy of Progress in Human AffairsChapman & Hall, 1860 - 239 Seiten |
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... supposed to belong to theological regions accessible to man's prayers , but for ever excluded from his control , are now found to lie within the domain of his reason , and within certain limits to yield obedience to his will . In one of ...
... supposed to belong to theological regions accessible to man's prayers , but for ever excluded from his control , are now found to lie within the domain of his reason , and within certain limits to yield obedience to his will . In one of ...
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... supposed that the laws of social life will have their students and expositors , unless there is a previous faith that their presence may be traced in all the operations of which the human faculties are capable . This faith to be ...
... supposed that the laws of social life will have their students and expositors , unless there is a previous faith that their presence may be traced in all the operations of which the human faculties are capable . This faith to be ...
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... supposed . If we bring carbon to a high temperature in contact with oxygen , it burns , and the compound car- bonic - acid gas is the result ; but there is no " fate here , there is simply a natural employment of the properties of the ...
... supposed . If we bring carbon to a high temperature in contact with oxygen , it burns , and the compound car- bonic - acid gas is the result ; but there is no " fate here , there is simply a natural employment of the properties of the ...
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... supposed the human mind in the individual and in society to pass through three successive conditions - the theological , the metaphysical , and the positive . Comte himself towards the close of his life appears to have been passing ...
... supposed the human mind in the individual and in society to pass through three successive conditions - the theological , the metaphysical , and the positive . Comte himself towards the close of his life appears to have been passing ...
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... supposed to arise from a purgative quality ; and meats were hot , cold , moist , and dry in various degrees , not according to any sensible observation of properties , but according to an imputation of qualities upon fanciful grounds ...
... supposed to arise from a purgative quality ; and meats were hot , cold , moist , and dry in various degrees , not according to any sensible observation of properties , but according to an imputation of qualities upon fanciful grounds ...
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act of Parliament action æsthetic amount arises aristocracy asceticism Aurora Leigh become believe better bothy capitalists cause CHAPTER character circumstances civilized claims condition cracy crime cultivation democracy despotism directions diseases doctrine duty equally evil exercise exhibited exist fact faculties favourable feeling force freedom growth Guizot habits human mind idea improved individual industrial influence inquiry intellectual J. S. Mill knowledge labour laws legislation liberty live man's marriage mass means ment mental metaphysical metaphysical stage method modern modes moral nation natural object observation obtain occupation operation opinion persons phenomena philosophical physical political economy portion position present principles produced progress proportion question racter reason relations religious result rule sanitary science scholasticism scientific social science Social statics society spirit stage strikes suffer supposed tendency theology thing thought tion trade true truth universal suffrage variety woman women
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Seite 87 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Seite 109 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Seite 74 - ... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Seite 157 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Seite 4 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Seite 238 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Seite 165 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Seite 47 - In the final, the positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after Absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, — that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance.
Seite 22 - Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Seite 46 - ... who had merely adopted the commonplaces of received opinion, that he did not understand the subject — that he as yet attached no definite meaning to the doctrines he professed ; in order that, becoming aware of his ignorance, he might be put in the way to attain a stable belief, resting on a clear apprehension both of the meaning of doctrines and of their evidence.