The Ethic of Nature and Its Practical BearingsDouglas, 1889 - 284 Seiten |
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... COMMON SENSE AND POLITICS , Lord Hartington's Position , The Higher Statesmanship , The New Alternative , . 173 173 178 181 182 • 186 · 187 By one Party the Ethical Idea has been turned Topsy - Turvy . Mr John Morley , M.P. ( Mora- list ...
... COMMON SENSE AND POLITICS , Lord Hartington's Position , The Higher Statesmanship , The New Alternative , . 173 173 178 181 182 • 186 · 187 By one Party the Ethical Idea has been turned Topsy - Turvy . Mr John Morley , M.P. ( Mora- list ...
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... common understanding , but which is utterly anta- gonistic to rational knowledge . However directly we may attribute the origin of species to the action of the Divine Being , all His actions must fit into the intelligible framework of ...
... common understanding , but which is utterly anta- gonistic to rational knowledge . However directly we may attribute the origin of species to the action of the Divine Being , all His actions must fit into the intelligible framework of ...
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... common with others . It was during the interval between the writing of the two editions of his Journal that the new theory took definite form . When he asked why the original inhabitants of the Galapagos Islands were created 16 SURVIVAL ...
... common with others . It was during the interval between the writing of the two editions of his Journal that the new theory took definite form . When he asked why the original inhabitants of the Galapagos Islands were created 16 SURVIVAL ...
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... common ground . But they blink helplessly in the effort to scan the wide horizon , and note the bearings of peak to peak and of sea to sea over the habitable globe of mind . Every man in his own order . To one is given the microscopic ...
... common ground . But they blink helplessly in the effort to scan the wide horizon , and note the bearings of peak to peak and of sea to sea over the habitable globe of mind . Every man in his own order . To one is given the microscopic ...
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... common with the concrete world , to part willingly with his regal abstraction whereby he has divorced God from His world . To minds of that order , now happily far from numerous in the Churches , it is impious to hint that God will be ...
... common with the concrete world , to part willingly with his regal abstraction whereby he has divorced God from His world . To minds of that order , now happily far from numerous in the Churches , it is impious to hint that God will be ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
animals Archæology Author better Bishop of Wakefield capitalists century Christian Church civilised cloth conscript Crown 8vo culture Darwin Darwinian DAVID DOUGLAS Demy 8vo divine duty England English fact Fcap GEORGE REID GEORGE WEBBE DASENT Gibb of Gushetneuk give Gladstone Gladstonian Government hand higher hope human idea ideal Illustrated individual industry interest Ireland Irish JOHN BROWN Johnny Gibb labour leaders LL.D Lord Lord Hartington Matthew Arnold means ment mind moral Morley nation natural selection never organic organisation origin of species Parliament party persons political poor present principle Professor Huxley progress proletaire proletariat religion Scotland Scottish sense sentient world sermon Sketches Small 4to social Socialists society species sphere spirit statesmen strong struggle sympathy syndicate teaching things thought tion trade truth University of Edinburgh vols wages weak WILLIAM young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 219 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Seite 219 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished and not bound by them.
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Seite 27 - ... good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the...
Seite 219 - It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely — nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea : and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Seite 2 - Social Life in Former Days ; Chiefly in the Province of Moray. Illustrated by letters and family p'apers. By E. DUNBAR DUNBAR, late Captain 21st Fusiliers. 2 vols. demy 8vo, price 19s.
Seite 12 - It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of '' species ; " in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight — in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea — in some, descent is the key, — in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.