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... knowledge and society . His sense , and perhaps in some degree his perception of the ludicrous , have kept him from adopt- ing the extravagances embodied in the ' Religion of Humanity ' ; a keen naturalism , which crops out more or less ...
... knowledge and society . His sense , and perhaps in some degree his perception of the ludicrous , have kept him from adopt- ing the extravagances embodied in the ' Religion of Humanity ' ; a keen naturalism , which crops out more or less ...
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... knowledge from his own point of view ; endowed , moreover , with a lumi- nous insight into the true meaning of scientific ideas , and their fruitful relations to one another , M . Comte is withal singularly monotonous both as a thinker ...
... knowledge from his own point of view ; endowed , moreover , with a lumi- nous insight into the true meaning of scientific ideas , and their fruitful relations to one another , M . Comte is withal singularly monotonous both as a thinker ...
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... knowledge of its author . The facts of his life are now fully disclosed in M. Littré's well - known work , upon which Mr Lewes's summary professes partly to be based . The " Préface Personelle , " pre- fixed to the sixth volume of the ...
... knowledge of its author . The facts of his life are now fully disclosed in M. Littré's well - known work , upon which Mr Lewes's summary professes partly to be based . The " Préface Personelle , " pre- fixed to the sixth volume of the ...
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... knowledge , not only by further study , but by lecturing on the subject under the wing of one of the professors to whom he was attached , and to whom he afterwards dedicated one of his books . " Seated , " says M. Littré , " on a high ...
... knowledge , not only by further study , but by lecturing on the subject under the wing of one of the professors to whom he was attached , and to whom he afterwards dedicated one of his books . " Seated , " says M. Littré , " on a high ...
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... knowledge , and legislates for the future destiny of the world , and his own difficulty in earning his daily bread . Yet how far greater would he have appeared had he left others to tell the story of his troubles - had he himself ...
... knowledge , and legislates for the future destiny of the world , and his own difficulty in earning his daily bread . Yet how far greater would he have appeared had he left others to tell the story of his troubles - had he himself ...
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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...