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... gives them a missionary impulse . He is the prophet of our modern Naturalism , and we must go back to his writings if we would study the springs of the movement , and understand something of the hold which it has taken of our age ...
... gives them a missionary impulse . He is the prophet of our modern Naturalism , and we must go back to his writings if we would study the springs of the movement , and understand something of the hold which it has taken of our age ...
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... I have collected the Essays , and ventured thus briefly to trace the line of thought which connects them and gives them any value . ST ANDREWS , April 1884 . CONTENTS . PAGE AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM , 3 THE xiv PREFACE .
... I have collected the Essays , and ventured thus briefly to trace the line of thought which connects them and gives them any value . ST ANDREWS , April 1884 . CONTENTS . PAGE AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM , 3 THE xiv PREFACE .
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... gives unity and creative life to a book . The biography lacks inspiration ; the history , seriousness and faith . The third edition of the second of these works is now before us - an old friend with a new face . The ' Biographical ...
... gives unity and creative life to a book . The biography lacks inspiration ; the history , seriousness and faith . The third edition of the second of these works is now before us - an old friend with a new face . The ' Biographical ...
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... to communicate itself to a young and ardent spirit , and to give a general direction , if not a special form , to his social and political ideas . M. Littré and Mr Lewes both admit so much . 12 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... to communicate itself to a young and ardent spirit , and to give a general direction , if not a special form , to his social and political ideas . M. Littré and Mr Lewes both admit so much . 12 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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... give his creative inspiration the fullest play . There cannot be a more curious revelation of his character than what he says on this subject in the " Préface Personelle " : - " I have always thought that with modern philoso- phers ...
... give his creative inspiration the fullest play . There cannot be a more curious revelation of his character than what he says on this subject in the " Préface Personelle " : - " I have always thought that with modern philoso- phers ...
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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...