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... respects , a lofty esti- mate . But it is impossible to refuse to him the credit -if credit it is - of having , more than any other man , created the modern movement . The speculations of Mr Herbert Spencer , the essays of Professor ...
... respects , a lofty esti- mate . But it is impossible to refuse to him the credit -if credit it is - of having , more than any other man , created the modern movement . The speculations of Mr Herbert Spencer , the essays of Professor ...
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... respect of both writers — the friendship of one of whom I may claim , as I willingly do homage with thousands of readers to his delightful literary qualities . Yet nothing appears to me more untenable than the attempt which these ...
... respect of both writers — the friendship of one of whom I may claim , as I willingly do homage with thousands of readers to his delightful literary qualities . Yet nothing appears to me more untenable than the attempt which these ...
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... respect for one another . But it is a respect which is not credit- able to religion , and by which religion always suffers in the end . I am myself but a poor fighter in these open fields , to which the Anglican Church , from the days ...
... respect for one another . But it is a respect which is not credit- able to religion , and by which religion always suffers in the end . I am myself but a poor fighter in these open fields , to which the Anglican Church , from the days ...
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... respects improved . They are " graver and fuller " ; but we miss , with re- gret , the old dash and liveliness of ... respect for Mr Lewes's talents , that his present volumes retain many of his old faults of treatment . Softened and ...
... respects improved . They are " graver and fuller " ; but we miss , with re- gret , the old dash and liveliness of ... respect for Mr Lewes's talents , that his present volumes retain many of his old faults of treatment . Softened and ...
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... respect for the moral earnest- ness of the writer , render them tolerable . To the majority of readers they must be unintelligible , and even where understood , unattractive . In order to understand Positivism , and appreciate the ...
... respect for the moral earnest- ness of the writer , render them tolerable . To the majority of readers they must be unintelligible , and even where understood , unattractive . In order to understand Positivism , and appreciate 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...