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... writings if we would study the springs of the movement , and understand something of the hold which it has taken of our age . Moreover , it is to Comte's professed followers rather See pp . 34 , 428 . than others that we must look for ...
... writings if we would study the springs of the movement , and understand something of the hold which it has taken of our age . Moreover , it is to Comte's professed followers rather See pp . 34 , 428 . than others that we must look for ...
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... the ' Religion of Humanity ' ; a keen naturalism , which crops out more or less in all his writings , and a certain native light- ness of temperament , have proved too powerful for the 6 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... the ' Religion of Humanity ' ; a keen naturalism , which crops out more or less in all his writings , and a certain native light- ness of temperament , have proved too powerful for the 6 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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... , and for which he had really an eminent faculty - the rational and historic sequence of scientific ideas . In all his later writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity 8 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
... , and for which he had really an eminent faculty - the rational and historic sequence of scientific ideas . In all his later writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity 8 AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM .
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John Tulloch. writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity with them , and the rich though broken lights of truth which they reveal amidst masses of astound- ing self - assertion and even downright nonsense , as well as ...
John Tulloch. writings it is painfully conspicuous . Only some fam- iliarity with them , and the rich though broken lights of truth which they reveal amidst masses of astound- ing self - assertion and even downright nonsense , as well as ...
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... writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene , the obligation of reading nothing whatever bearing on my subject except such new scientific discoveries as I deemed useful - an obligation which , if sometimes ...
... writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene , the obligation of reading nothing whatever bearing on my subject except such new scientific discoveries as I deemed useful - an obligation which , if sometimes ...
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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...