Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their ApplicationsMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 298 עמודים |
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... nature and common sense , I find my understanding strangely enlightened , so that I can now easily comprehend a great many things which before were all mystery and riddle .'- BERKELEY'S HYLAS AND PHILONOUS . 27111 PREFACE . THE BOOK was ...
... nature and common sense , I find my understanding strangely enlightened , so that I can now easily comprehend a great many things which before were all mystery and riddle .'- BERKELEY'S HYLAS AND PHILONOUS . 27111 PREFACE . THE BOOK was ...
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... nature , is not the loss of Religious Belief the loss ? ' ' All wounds , the crush of long - continued Destitution , the stab of false Friendship and of false Love , all wounds in the so genial heart would have healed again had not the ...
... nature , is not the loss of Religious Belief the loss ? ' ' All wounds , the crush of long - continued Destitution , the stab of false Friendship and of false Love , all wounds in the so genial heart would have healed again had not the ...
עמוד 3
... nature which have given its professors such just offence . Many of its assailants have not scrupled to stigmatise as worthy only of swine a doctrine which represents life as having no better and nobler object of desire and pursuit than ...
... nature which have given its professors such just offence . Many of its assailants have not scrupled to stigmatise as worthy only of swine a doctrine which represents life as having no better and nobler object of desire and pursuit than ...
עמוד 4
... nature by using language that assumes human beings to be capable of no higher pleasures than those of which swine are capable ; and that , moreover , if the assumption were correct , and if the capacities of men and of swine were ...
... nature by using language that assumes human beings to be capable of no higher pleasures than those of which swine are capable ; and that , moreover , if the assumption were correct , and if the capacities of men and of swine were ...
עמוד 40
... nature unsusceptible of decisive proof . If I , in support of the proposition that there is in the human mind an intuitive sense of any sort , were to assert that I had such a sense while you denied that you had , it would be impossible ...
... nature unsusceptible of decisive proof . If I , in support of the proposition that there is in the human mind an intuitive sense of any sort , were to assert that I had such a sense while you denied that you had , it would be impossible ...
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according action admit animal antecedent appearance atheism Auguste Comte Baron D'Holbach become believe carbonic acid causes cells certainly circumstances conceived consciousness consequently constitute cornea course creature Darwin DAVID HUME deny Descartes divine doctrine doubt duty effect equally existence experience external fact feel force G. H. Lewes Galton happiness human Hume Hume's idea imagine individuals infer intelligence invariable J. S. Mill justice least less likewise matter means melipona mental merely Mill mind miracle mode moral motion natural selection nature necessarily never object operation organic original particular perceive perception person phenomena philosophy plainly pleasure Positivism possession possibly prayer present principles produce Professor Huxley protoplasm qualities reason recognise retina rience sensations sense sequences simply single society species sufficient supposed things thou thought tion truth uncon universe unless Utilitarianism utterly virtue volitions words wrong
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עמוד 100 - ... of any profession, but a general elegance of manners ; whereas, in a military man, you can commonly distinguish the brand of a soldier, I'homme d'epee.
עמוד 95 - ... that suicide is merely the product of the general condition of society, and that the individual felon only carries into effect what is a necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.
עמוד 174 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
עמוד 85 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends, of course, upon special laws; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are all subordinate.
עמוד 104 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his Lord...
עמוד 266 - Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, — is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye.
עמוד 84 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
עמוד 90 - 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 are acquainted 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.
עמוד 264 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire...
עמוד 162 - ... hydrogen ? What justification is there, then, for the assumption of the existence in the living matter of a something which has no representative, or correlative, in the not living matter which gave rise to it ? What better philosophical status has "vitality