Sir William Hamilton: The Man and His Philosophy : Two Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, January and February 1883W. Blackwood, 1883 - 68 pages |
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... , radiant with frank kindliness , honest humanity , and intelligence ready to help ; and how completely pre- possessing they were ! A fine firm figure of middle height ; one of the finest cheerfully - serious human 18 Sir William Hamilton .
... , radiant with frank kindliness , honest humanity , and intelligence ready to help ; and how completely pre- possessing they were ! A fine firm figure of middle height ; one of the finest cheerfully - serious human 18 Sir William Hamilton .
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... intelligence that is in humanity , the great univer- sal standard of truth . You have now , by the individual effort of reflection , risen to the ultimate , cognisable , yet incomprehensible , principles of human knowledge . These are ...
... intelligence that is in humanity , the great univer- sal standard of truth . You have now , by the individual effort of reflection , risen to the ultimate , cognisable , yet incomprehensible , principles of human knowledge . These are ...
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... intelligence . It is easy to produce quite a sensation by supposing such a thing ; for is not this the abandonment of the scientific or speculative intelligence , which is our true help to pure knowledge , especially to the deductions ...
... intelligence . It is easy to produce quite a sensation by supposing such a thing ; for is not this the abandonment of the scientific or speculative intelligence , which is our true help to pure knowledge , especially to the deductions ...
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... intelligence , and the moral life of mankind . Face to face with these facts , and in contradiction to them , no philosophy of the universe can permanently abide ; and the wrecks of the brilliant theories of the world of being which ...
... intelligence , and the moral life of mankind . Face to face with these facts , and in contradiction to them , no philosophy of the universe can permanently abide ; and the wrecks of the brilliant theories of the world of being which ...
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... intelligence , like our own . Left to these hypotheses , there is nothing for us but a world of subjective impressions . How then are we to settle this question ? Obviously by an appeal to the testimony of our consciousness as intuitive ...
... intelligence , like our own . Left to these hypotheses , there is nothing for us but a world of subjective impressions . How then are we to settle this question ? Obviously by an appeal to the testimony of our consciousness as intuitive ...
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