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... feeling in this essay which would be better away ; but it is im- possible to eliminate them fully without breaking up the argument , and there is nothing in its spirit and scope to which I do not adhere . The paper on " Pessimism ...
... feeling in this essay which would be better away ; but it is im- possible to eliminate them fully without breaking up the argument , and there is nothing in its spirit and scope to which I do not adhere . The paper on " Pessimism ...
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... feelings and actions , and the laws of these are the laws of human nature - social facts being the results of human acts and situations . Since , then , the phenomena of man in society result from his nature as an indi- vidual being ...
... feelings and actions , and the laws of these are the laws of human nature - social facts being the results of human acts and situations . Since , then , the phenomena of man in society result from his nature as an indi- vidual being ...
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... feeling . " " 3 Each man should pray to his angels three times a- day - on getting up , before going to sleep , and in the midst of his daily work . " The worship of Humanity raises prayer for the first time above the degrading ...
... feeling . " " 3 Each man should pray to his angels three times a- day - on getting up , before going to sleep , and in the midst of his daily work . " The worship of Humanity raises prayer for the first time above the degrading ...
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... Feelings of pain- ful pity , as well as want of space , forbid our enlarging further on such a theme . In the same manner we must pass over the whole theory of Positive Ethics , 2 Ibid . , p . 143 . 1 Cat . Pos . , p . 142 . which ...
... Feelings of pain- ful pity , as well as want of space , forbid our enlarging further on such a theme . In the same manner we must pass over the whole theory of Positive Ethics , 2 Ibid . , p . 143 . 1 Cat . Pos . , p . 142 . which ...
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... Feeling : a Contribution to Psychology , ' is not merely a thinker of rare subtlety and richness of philosophical insight , but he is a thinker steeped in all the new scientific ideas , and capable of handling them with the easy ...
... Feeling : a Contribution to Psychology , ' is not merely a thinker of rare subtlety and richness of philosophical insight , but he is a thinker steeped in all the new scientific ideas , and capable of handling them with the easy ...
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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...