 That when we perform an action, we perform it in consequence of some motive or motives ; that those motives are the results of some antecedents ; and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and with all the laws of their...  Social Equality: a Short Study in a Missing Science - עמוד 102מאת William Hurrell Mallock - 1882 - 274 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 586 דפים
...mental and moral automaton. Human actions, he says, are the result of motives, and motives the result of antecedents ; and that therefore if we are acquainted...certainty predict the whole of their immediate results." That is, in plain language, men are made what they are in morals, in religion, government, literature,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 דפים
...tecc3enlsT~arid"~?Iiiat, therefore, IF we were~actmainted with the whole of the antecedents, and with all the laws. _of their movements, we could with unerring certainty predict the whole of their immediate results. "Tins, unless T~airi "greatly mistaken, is the view which must be held by every man whose mind is unbiased... | |
 | 1858 - 798 דפים
...or motives ; that these motives are the result of some antecedente, and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and...certainty, predict the whole of their immediate results." Now, as all antecedents are either in the mind or out of it, "all the vicissitudes of the human race,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 894 דפים
...motives ; that those motives are the results of some antecedents ; and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and...certainty predict the whole of their immediate results. This, unless I am greatly mistaken, is the view which must be held by every man whose mind is unbiased... | |
 | 1858 - 770 דפים
...or motives ; that these motives are the result of some antecedents, and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and...certainty, predict the whole of their immediate results." Now, as all antecedents are either in the mind or out of it, "all the vicissitudes of the human race,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1858 - 794 דפים
...or motives ; that these motives are the results of some antecedents; and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and...certainty predict the whole of their immediate results." These quotations will probably be thought by most readers, who have studied the great metaphysical... | |
 | 1858 - 492 דפים
...or motives ; that those motives are the result of some antecedents; and that therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents and with...certainty predict the whole of their immediate results." Now, as men's actions are determined by outward things, those actions must be uniform, and the same... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine A Literary and Political Journal VOL.LI.January to June,1858 - 1858 - 780 דפים
...of some antecedents, and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedente, and with all the laws of their movements, we could,...certainty, predict the whole of their immediate results." Now, as all antecedents are either in the mind or out of it, "all the vicissitudes of the human race,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 694 דפים
...actions depend on motives, and that these motives are the result of antecedents ; and that if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and...with all the laws of their movements, we could with certainty predict the whole of their immediate results ; or, as it is somewhat differently stated a... | |
 | 1859 - 450 דפים
...that those • motives are the results of some antecedents ; and that, therefore, if we could become acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and...certainty predict the whole of their immediate results. Inferring, then, that the actions of men, being thus determined solely by their antecedents, must have... | |
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