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... relation of Ethics to Metaphysics might have been ex- amined in connection with significant works in our own language , which have lately attracted much attention- Mr Herbert Spencer's ' Data of Ethics , ' and Mr Leslie Stephen's ...
... relation of Ethics to Metaphysics might have been ex- amined in connection with significant works in our own language , which have lately attracted much attention- Mr Herbert Spencer's ' Data of Ethics , ' and Mr Leslie Stephen's ...
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... relations of human wellbeing , and no mere affair of Churches or sects . They put plainly , I think , the 1 Dr Ward , whose Essays On the Philosophy of Theism ' have just appeared as these papers are passing through the press , is a ...
... relations of human wellbeing , and no mere affair of Churches or sects . They put plainly , I think , the 1 Dr Ward , whose Essays On the Philosophy of Theism ' have just appeared as these papers are passing through the press , is a ...
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... relations to one another , M . Comte is withal singularly monotonous both as a thinker and writer . There is an inexpressible tedium in many of his lengthened elaborations ; and while his general meaning is seldom obscure or doubtful ...
... relations to one another , M . Comte is withal singularly monotonous both as a thinker and writer . There is an inexpressible tedium in many of his lengthened elaborations ; and while his general meaning is seldom obscure or doubtful ...
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... relations of his thought to other systems , we make but a little way when we are left groping amidst the old generalities , which are to him an everlasting gospel , the converse of all that has hitherto made a gospel for man . Never ...
... relations of his thought to other systems , we make but a little way when we are left groping amidst the old generalities , which are to him an everlasting gospel , the converse of all that has hitherto made a gospel for man . Never ...
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... relation to other systems , and the circle of human knowledge . These two points of view , as we have already in- dicated , mark a schism , or something approaching to a schism , among M. Comte's disciples . Many who have embraced the ...
... relation to other systems , and the circle of human knowledge . These two points of view , as we have already in- dicated , mark a schism , or something approaching to a schism , among M. Comte's disciples . Many who have embraced the ...
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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...