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... such attempts should be made , as well as attempts to revive old pessimistic theories , is in the very character of that negative movement or wave of thought which is so powerful in our time . They represent , so to speak X PREFACE .
... such attempts should be made , as well as attempts to revive old pessimistic theories , is in the very character of that negative movement or wave of thought which is so powerful in our time . They represent , so to speak X PREFACE .
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... important than his early and com- paratively hasty sketches of these great thinkers . But it may be fairly questioned whether he has , after all , imparted to his work a higher character , and made 4 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... important than his early and com- paratively hasty sketches of these great thinkers . But it may be fairly questioned whether he has , after all , imparted to his work a higher character , and made 4 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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John Tulloch. imparted to his work a higher character , and made it more profound and erudite as a whole , while he has certainly impaired the freshness of its original outline and the vivacity of its biographic movement . It has ceased ...
John Tulloch. imparted to his work a higher character , and made it more profound and erudite as a whole , while he has certainly impaired the freshness of its original outline and the vivacity of its biographic movement . It has ceased ...
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... character of a philosophic sketch - book , full of graphic vivid outlines , many of them imperfect , but all dashed with a certain fascinating boldness and freedom of handling ; and it has not acquired the pro- portions , gravity ...
... character of a philosophic sketch - book , full of graphic vivid outlines , many of them imperfect , but all dashed with a certain fascinating boldness and freedom of handling ; and it has not acquired the pro- portions , gravity ...
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... character of the author than the portrait which he has there drawn of himself , and of his difficulties in the preparation of his great work . Auguste Comte was the child of an extremely Royalist and Catholic family in the south of ...
... character of the author than the portrait which he has there drawn of himself , and of his difficulties in the preparation of his great work . Auguste Comte was the child of an extremely Royalist and Catholic family in the south of ...
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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...