 | William Stanley Jevons - 1879 - 364 דפים
...In vain would any one deny the truth of the favourite aphorism of Sir W. Hamilton — IN THE WORLD THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN. IN MAN THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. LESSON II. THE THREE PARTS OF LOGICAL DOCTRINE. IT has been explained in the previous lesson that Logic... | |
 | Walter Henry Hill - 1879 - 288 דפים
...not be entirely extinct, notwithstanding the defective congenital mental organization. " In nature there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mind " If, therefore, young gentlemen, discouraged and fatigued at times with the perplexing problems of... | |
 | 1879 - 652 דפים
...hypocrisy, should be good. The culmination of our philosophy is thus Hamilton's favorite maxim : " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind ;" and I might add, in mind there is nothing great but love guided by law. This carries with it Moral... | |
 | National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America - 1880 - 262 דפים
...and hence from Plato to Sir Wm. Hamilton, who inscribed on the walls of his lecture-room : " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind—" an absolute contradiction of facts. Hence a metaphysical mode of reasoning, falsely so-called, for... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1881 - 402 דפים
...usually end in rough guesses, and rash, extravagant assertions. It has been well said, that " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." We are, therefore, to contemplate a minute, but very important part of what is greatest in the greatest... | |
 | 1881 - 654 דפים
...however gemmed with diamonds or seamed with gold, we feel no consciousness of littleness. "In the world there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind ; " and the universe which begets our sense of littleness, also in the end awakes us to the magnificence... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1881 - 364 דפים
...In vain would any one deny the truth of the favourite aphorism of Sir W. Hamilton — IN THE WORLD THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN. IN MAN THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. LESSON II. THE THREE PARTS OF LOGICAL DOCTRINE. IT has been explained in the previous lesson that Logic... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1882 - 402 דפים
...was once my happiness to study) is inscribed the maxim, first uttered by Phavorinus : — " On earth, there is nothing great but man ; In man, there is nothing great but mind." That maxim is the lesson of our text. True greatness consists, not in weight and extension, but in... | |
 | Alfred William Benn - 1882 - 490 דפים
...Thucydides, and Socrates, all of whom might have taken for their motto the noble lines — ' On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind.' We have said that Protagoras was a partisan of Nomos, or convention, against Nature. That was the conservative... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - 812 דפים
...sense demonstrating the weakness of human intelligence. One of his favourite mottoes was " on earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind." To a Hamiltonian it is simply ludicrous to speak of that prince of modern thinkers as seeking, in the... | |
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... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind. 
