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... authority is the soundest basis of belief ; that merit attaches to a readiness to believe ; that the doubting disposition is a bad one , and scepticism a sin ; that when good authority has pronounced what is to be believed , and faith ...
... authority is the soundest basis of belief ; that merit attaches to a readiness to believe ; that the doubting disposition is a bad one , and scepticism a sin ; that when good authority has pronounced what is to be believed , and faith ...
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... authority ; and to those of us moderns who are in this position , it is one of Descartes ' great claims to our reverence as 1 Discours de la Méthode pour bien conduire sa Raison et chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences . a spiritual ...
... authority ; and to those of us moderns who are in this position , it is one of Descartes ' great claims to our reverence as 1 Discours de la Méthode pour bien conduire sa Raison et chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences . a spiritual ...
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... authority may err ; that testimony may be false or mistaken ; that reason lands us in endless fallacies ; that memory is often as little trustworthy as hope ; that the evidence of the very senses may be misunderstood ; that dreams are ...
... authority may err ; that testimony may be false or mistaken ; that reason lands us in endless fallacies ; that memory is often as little trustworthy as hope ; that the evidence of the very senses may be misunderstood ; that dreams are ...
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... is well , again , to re- flect that the fame of Descartes filled all Europe , and his authority overshadowed it , for a century ; while now , most of those who know his name think of him , either as a person who had 202 ANIMAL AUTOMATISM.
... is well , again , to re- flect that the fame of Descartes filled all Europe , and his authority overshadowed it , for a century ; while now , most of those who know his name think of him , either as a person who had 202 ANIMAL AUTOMATISM.
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... authority , in whose judgment all this legislation is a step in the wrong direction , false in principle , and consequently sure to pro- duce evil in practice . The arguments employed by these objectors are of two kinds . The first is ...
... authority , in whose judgment all this legislation is a step in the wrong direction , false in principle , and consequently sure to pro- duce evil in practice . The arguments employed by these objectors are of two kinds . The first is ...
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Page 403 - The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions...
Page 21 - Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physick, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, staticks, magneticks, chymicks, mechanicks, and natural experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad.
Page 244 - If these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism ; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act.
Page 16 - To promote the increase of natural know-ledge and to forward the application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems of life to the best of my ability, in the conviction which has grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength that there is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
Page 254 - ... others he has made of silver, to be auxiliaries; others again who are to be husbandmen and craftsmen he has composed of brass and iron; and the species will generally be preserved in the children. But as all are of the same original stock, a golden parent will sometimes have a silver son, or a silver parent a golden son.
Page 265 - But though men when they enter into society give up the equality, liberty, and executive power they had in the state of Nature into the hands of the Society, to be so far disposed of by the legislative as the good of the society shall require, yet it being only with an intention in every one the better to preserve himself, his liberty and property (for no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse...
Page 267 - No opinions contrary to human society, or to those moral rules which are necessary to the preservation of civil society, are to be tolerated by the magistrate.
Page 161 - And what is the dire necessity and " iron" law under which men groan ? Truly, most gratuitously invented bugbears. I suppose if there be an "iron" law, it is that of gravitation; and if there be a physical necessity, it is that a stone, unsupported, must fall to the ground. But what is all we really know, and can know, about the latter phaenomenon?
Page 140 - It is a fair question whether the protoplasm of those simplest forms of life, which people an immense extent of the bottom of the sea, would not outweigh that of all the higher living beings which inhabit the land put together. And in ancient times, no less than at the present day, such living beings as these have been the greatest of rock builders.
Page 62 - But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact, and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of nature...