Representative Essays in Modern Thought: A Basis for CompositionHarrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine American Book Company, 1913 - 533 Seiten |
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... admit to express the most considerable effort after perfection that our race has yet made , land us in no better result than this , it is high time to examine carefully their idea of perfection , to see whether it does not leave out of ...
... admit to express the most considerable effort after perfection that our race has yet made , land us in no better result than this , it is high time to examine carefully their idea of perfection , to see whether it does not leave out of ...
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... admits the ne- cessity of the movement towards fortune - making and exaggerated industrialism , readily allows that the future may derive benefit from it ; but insists , at the same time , that the passing genera- tions of ...
... admits the ne- cessity of the movement towards fortune - making and exaggerated industrialism , readily allows that the future may derive benefit from it ; but insists , at the same time , that the passing genera- tions of ...
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... admit that either nations or individuals will really advance , if their common outfit draws nothing from the stores of physical science . I should say that an army , without weapons of preci- sion , and with no particular base of ...
... admit that either nations or individuals will really advance , if their common outfit draws nothing from the stores of physical science . I should say that an army , without weapons of preci- sion , and with no particular base of ...
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... admits that all our interpretations of natural fact are more or less imperfect and symbolic , and bids the learner seek for truth not among words but among things . It warns us that the asser- tion which outstrips evidence is not only a ...
... admits that all our interpretations of natural fact are more or less imperfect and symbolic , and bids the learner seek for truth not among words but among things . It warns us that the asser- tion which outstrips evidence is not only a ...
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... admit that , so far as it goes , this view of the case is right and necessary ; right , because even when a man's belief is so fixed that he cannot think otherwise , he still has a choice in regard to the action suggested by it , and so ...
... admit that , so far as it goes , this view of the case is right and necessary ; right , because even when a man's belief is so fixed that he cannot think otherwise , he still has a choice in regard to the action suggested by it , and so ...
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action admit animals apes argument Aristotle avenger of blood believe Bishop Butler blood feud cause character chimpanzee Christianity civilization common condition culture Darwin Democritus doctrine doubt duty Editors error essay ethical evidence existence experience fact faculties faith feeling force Frederic Harrison give hand human hypothesis idea ideal individual intellectual intelligence John Stuart Mill justice kind knowledge labor less living Lucretius mankind matter means ment mind modern moral nation natural selection nature never object opinion organization origin of species perfection persons philosopher physical political popular government possession possible practical present principle produced progress Protestantism punishment question race reason regard religion religious result rock pigeon scientific sense side social society special creation species spirit supposed theory things thought tion true truth universal suffrage universe wealth whole women
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Seite 289 - Was war ein Gott, der nur von außen stieße, Im Kreis das All am Finger laufen ließe! Ihm ziemt's, die Welt im Innern zu bewegen, Natur in Sich, Sich in Natur zu hegen, So daß, was in Ihm lebt und webt und ist, Nie Seine Kraft, nie Seinen Geist vermißt.
Seite 144 - ... sed nil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrina sapientum templa serena, despicere unde queas alios passimque videre errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae, certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate, noctes atque dies niti praestante labore ad summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.
Seite 110 - i maestri di color che sanno," the two headsprings of ethical as of all other philosophy. This acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived — whose fame, still growing after more than two thousand years, all but outweighs the whole remainder of the names which make his native city illustrious — was put to death by his countrymen, after a judicial conviction, for impiety and immorality. Impiety, in denying the gods recognized by the State; indeed his accuser asserted (see...
Seite 37 - An army without weapons of precision, and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism...
Seite 7 - The moment this view of culture is seized, the moment it is regarded not solely as the endeavour to see things as they are, to draw towards a knowledge of the universal order which seems to be intended and aimed at in the world, and which it is a man's happiness to go along with or his misery to go counter to, — to learn, in short, the will of God...
Seite 288 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that "Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods?" or with Bruno, when he declares that Matter is not "that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her to be, but the universal mother who brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb?
Seite 320 - With a capacity to grasp physical principles which his friend Goethe did not possess, and which even total lack of exercise has not been able to reduce to atrophy, it is the world's loss that he, in the...
Seite 314 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has "gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.
Seite 531 - The fatalistic view of the warfunction is to me nonsense, for I know that war-making is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise. And when whole nations are the armies, and the science of destruction vies in intellectual refinement with the sciences of production, I see that war becomes absurd and impossible from its own monstrosity.
Seite 11 - Our coal, thousands of people were saying, is the real basis of our national greatness; if our coal runs short, there is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness? — culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that 27 we excite love, interest, and admiration.