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Page 29
... illustrations the extraordinary views expounded in the ' Catechism , ' p . 222 , as to the study of the Animal Kingdom in rela- tion to Man . is true , and so far the critic would concur AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 29.
... illustrations the extraordinary views expounded in the ' Catechism , ' p . 222 , as to the study of the Animal Kingdom in rela- tion to Man . is true , and so far the critic would concur AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 29.
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... illustration , while conve- niently forgetting whatever does not suit him . With all that is false and one - sided in it , we know of few mental disciplines more bracing and exhilarating than the study of the Comtean hierarchy of ...
... illustration , while conve- niently forgetting whatever does not suit him . With all that is false and one - sided in it , we know of few mental disciplines more bracing and exhilarating than the study of the Comtean hierarchy of ...
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... illustration of Divine Wisdom ; for surely the very thought of a Divine Mind implies the perfection of wisdom , or , in other words , of order , as its expression . The more , therefore , the order of Nature is explained and its ...
... illustration of Divine Wisdom ; for surely the very thought of a Divine Mind implies the perfection of wisdom , or , in other words , of order , as its expression . The more , therefore , the order of Nature is explained and its ...
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... illustrations of the pessimistic spirit . It meets us everywhere in Indian and Persian poetry . In modern literature it is never far away . Shelley and Byron , and Heine and Lenau , and Lamartine , and , above all , Leopardi , have sung ...
... illustrations of the pessimistic spirit . It meets us everywhere in Indian and Persian poetry . In modern literature it is never far away . Shelley and Byron , and Heine and Lenau , and Lamartine , and , above all , Leopardi , have sung ...
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... illustration of the first of the three stages of illusion already described from his pages . He does not deny that men naturally prize life , and love it . But this instinctive apprecia- tion of life is merely an illusion with which man ...
... illustration of the first of the three stages of illusion already described from his pages . He does not deny that men naturally prize life , and love it . But this instinctive apprecia- tion of life is merely an illusion with which man ...
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Agnosticism argument Arnold Auguste Comte basis betwixt Blackwood's Magazine Caro character Christian Comte Comte's conception consciousness criticism Crown 8vo Democritus Divine doctrine dogma Dr Tyndall Edinburgh essay ethical existence experience external facts Fcap feeling Ferrier force German Gravenhurst Greek Philosophy Hartmann higher History human Hume idea ideal Illustrations intellectual intelligence Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Königsberg Kritik language Lectures less LL.D logical materialistic matter meaning ment merely metaphysical mind modern moral nature never object perception Pessimism phenomena philosophy physical Positive Positivism Positivist Post 8vo principle privat-docent Professor question reality reason recognise religion religious righteousness says Schopenhauer scientific Scotland Scottish Second Edition sense Sir William Hamilton speculation sphere spiritual supposed Theism theology theory things thinker Thorndale thought tion Translated true truth University University of Edinburgh vols volume whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD words writings
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Page 303 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 158 - But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 295 - Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being...