Patriotism and Science: Some Studies in Historic PsychologyRoberts Brothers, 1893 - 164 Seiten |
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... truth for its own sake , irrespec- tive of the consequences , in an honest , scientific fashion . For this article was one of those plausible but unsatisfactory things which we all of us are sure to produce if we have not the leaven of ...
... truth for its own sake , irrespec- tive of the consequences , in an honest , scientific fashion . For this article was one of those plausible but unsatisfactory things which we all of us are sure to produce if we have not the leaven of ...
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... Truth as to know that we are at least not any longer being deceived . Nor is this so unsatisfying an assur- ance after all . For this one thing , at least , we may know , that we necessarily make some progress . But because much that is ...
... Truth as to know that we are at least not any longer being deceived . Nor is this so unsatisfying an assur- ance after all . For this one thing , at least , we may know , that we necessarily make some progress . But because much that is ...
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... Truth ? For every new idea , to men so well established as England's gentlemen have been and are , in Church and State and country seats , is almost ugly and in- convenient . The mere mechanical devices and scien- tific discoveries of ...
... Truth ? For every new idea , to men so well established as England's gentlemen have been and are , in Church and State and country seats , is almost ugly and in- convenient . The mere mechanical devices and scien- tific discoveries of ...
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... truths to be self - evident , " says its Declaration of Independence , " that all men are created equal . " This assertion , as profoundly false as it is profoundly true , pervades all her institu- in tions , and is dangerously caviare ...
... truths to be self - evident , " says its Declaration of Independence , " that all men are created equal . " This assertion , as profoundly false as it is profoundly true , pervades all her institu- in tions , and is dangerously caviare ...
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... truth in this utterance which they do appreciate is its insistence upon the inalienable right of every man to be himself , and to work out his own salvation , and its rejection of anything like the English notion that the individual ...
... truth in this utterance which they do appreciate is its insistence upon the inalienable right of every man to be himself , and to work out his own salvation , and its rejection of anything like the English notion that the individual ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 105 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Seite 164 - Lessing's Laocoon : an Essay upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, with remarks illustrative of various points in the History of Ancient Art. By GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING.
Seite 51 - ... l'homme peut donc et doit tout tenter, il ne lui faut que du temps pour tout savoir. Il...
Seite 39 - I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...
Seite 101 - Yet, stranger, weep not ! for though premature his death, his life was glorious, enrolling him with the names of those immortal Statesmen and Commanders whose wisdom and intrepidity, in the course of this comprehensive and successful war, have extended the commerce, enlarged the dominion, and upheld the majesty of these kingdoms, beyond the idea of any former age.
Seite 76 - All politeness is owing to liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our corners and rough sides by a sort of amicable collision.
Seite 164 - ... and of philosophy ; being limited, strictly speaking, to the exhibition of ideal actions. These views, in which Lessing differed widely from Klopstock, who made moral beauty, and also from Wieland, who considered nature and truth, as the great aim of poetry, but in which he agreed with Aristotle, and was closely followed in their aesthetical theories by Goethe, Schiller- and Humboldt, were enforced with great argumentative power, extraordinary purity and correctness of taste, and with rich and...
Seite 51 - ... avare ou trop mystérieuse, et se féliciter de ce qu'à mesure qu'il lève une partie de son voile , elle lui laisse entrevoir une immensité d'autres objets tous dignes de ses recherches. Car ce que nous...
Seite 147 - Quand la mer Rouge apparut. C'est un coup que l'on reçoit Avant qu'on s'en doute; A peine on s'en aperçoit, Car on n'y voit goutte. Un certain ressort caché, Tout à coup étant lâché, Fait tomber, ber, ber, Fait sauter, ter, ter, Fait tomber, Fait sauter, Fait voler la tête; C'est bien plus honnête.