EssaysD. Appleton and Company, 1863 - 209 Seiten |
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1817 LIBRARIES Archbishop Whately arguments Aristotelian logic Aristotle authority Bacon Baconian Baconian method believe Buckle's causes character CHIGAN circumstances civilization classes co-existence creed deductive discovery doctrine effect eminent England eral experience facts fore genius Göthe greatest HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE human mind idea imagination immense inductive influence of women instance intellect investigated John Stuart Mill labour laws liberty living mankind matter ment method MICHIGAN Mill Mill's nations nature object Organum peculiar phenomena philosopher Plato poet political Political Economy Pompey practical present principle progress of knowledge public opinion question reason regard religion remarkable respecting result science of logic scientific social science society speculative supposed sure syllogism things thinkers thought tion true truth UNIV UNIVERSITY vidual writer ἀπὸ γὰρ δὲ δι διὰ ἐπαγωγῆς ἐπὶ καθόλου καὶ μὲν μὴ τὰ τὰς τῇ τὸ τῶν
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Seite 16 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Seite 17 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Seite 109 - There is now scarcely any outlet for energy in this country except business. The energy expended in that may still be regarded as considerable. What little is left from that employment, is expended on some hobby; which may be a useful, even a philanthropic hobby, but is always some one thing, and generally a thing of small dimensions. The greatness of England is now all collective : individually...
Seite 183 - The intellect is not made to think evolution, in the proper sense of the word — that is to say, the continuity of a change that is pure mobility.
Seite 49 - With due deference to Buckle's superior learning and astuteness, I confess my study of Mill's philosophy assures me that, if society should be turned over to the government of his theory of Liberty and Suffrage, it would go to ruin more rapidly than Frederick's province. Under his teachings...
Seite 116 - We are all agreed that truth is good ; or, at all events, those who are not agreed must be treated as persons beyond the pale of reason, and on whose obtuse understandings it would be idle to waste an argument He who says that truth is not always to be told, and that it is not fit for all minds, is simply a defender of falsehood ; and we should take no notice of him inasmuch as the object of discussion being to destroy error, we cannot discuss with a man who deliberately affirms that error should...
Seite 127 - ... it was with the greatest astonishment that I read in Mr. Mill's work that such a thing had occurred in this country, and at one of our assizes, less than two years ago. Notwithstanding my knowledge of Mr. Mill's accuracy, I thought that, in this instance, he must have been mistaken. I supposed that he had not heard all the circumstances, and that the person punished had been guilty of some other offence. I could not believe that in the year 1857, there was a judge on the English bench who would...
Seite 198 - ... suddenly and without warning, gives us a glimpse and a forecast of the future, and urges us to seize truth as it were by anticipation.
Seite 205 - Therefore, it is, that those who are most anxious that the boundaries of knowledge should be enlarged, ought to be most eager that the influence of women should be increased, in order that ever}i resource of the human mind may be at once and quickly brought into play.
Seite 173 - ... knowledge, either present or prospective. Facts, therefore, have merely a potential and, as it were, subsequent value, and the only advantage of possessing them is the possibility of drawing conclusions from them ; in other words, of rising to the idea, the principle, the law which governs them. Our knowledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which facts and ideas bear to themselves and to each other ; and real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes...