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... minds in every age , the central truth of astronomy at length dawned , and the chaos of conjecture became the order of science . From a science of observation , astronomy has MORAL SCIENCE AND ASTRONOMY . 19 now become one of 18 ...
... minds in every age , the central truth of astronomy at length dawned , and the chaos of conjecture became the order of science . From a science of observation , astronomy has MORAL SCIENCE AND ASTRONOMY . 19 now become one of 18 ...
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... mind to do , in all cases , one or the other of these . . So far as our present subject is concerned , it may aid us in doing this if we inquire for a little how it has happened that physical science , and especially astronomy , has so ...
... mind to do , in all cases , one or the other of these . . So far as our present subject is concerned , it may aid us in doing this if we inquire for a little how it has happened that physical science , and especially astronomy , has so ...
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... mind represented by it , that rendered possible in the Scotch universities such a state of things as is com- plained of by Chalmers . He says : " In the hands of some of our most celebrated professors , it " ( i . e . moral philosophy ) ...
... mind represented by it , that rendered possible in the Scotch universities such a state of things as is com- plained of by Chalmers . He says : " In the hands of some of our most celebrated professors , it " ( i . e . moral philosophy ) ...
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... mind . A third cause of the slower progress of moral science is its greater complexity . All science supposes uniformity in the phenomena , and so , in their cause or law , which is what science seeks . If there be no cause acting ...
... mind . A third cause of the slower progress of moral science is its greater complexity . All science supposes uniformity in the phenomena , and so , in their cause or law , which is what science seeks . If there be no cause acting ...
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... mind was compared to the eye , because that sees other things but not itself . The power of making itself an object to itself belongs to the mind of man as he is distinguished from the brutes ; it is the last power that is developed ...
... mind was compared to the eye , because that sees other things but not itself . The power of making itself an object to itself belongs to the mind of man as he is distinguished from the brutes ; it is the last power that is developed ...
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50 cents according action affirmation animal appetites approbation astronomy attainment beauty become benevolence blessedness body called cents character chemical affinity choice choose Christianity cloth conception condition connection conscience consciousness constitution desire of power distinction duty element enjoyment evil faculties faith feeling force form of activity FRANCIS WAYLAND give happiness harmony Hence higher highest holiness idea indicate individual instinct intellect involved knowledge lecture liberty light LOUIS AGASSIZ lower means ment mind moral act moral affections moral character moral constitution moral nature moral philosophy moral quality moral reason moral science natural affections natural law ness object obligation original ourselves particles perfect person philosophical skeptic pleasure principle question rational reach reference regard relation respect selfishness sense simply SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON society sphere suppose supreme end tendency things thought tion true end truth ultimate end virtue virtuous volition whole wholly wrong
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Page 121 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Page 98 - It is for this reason that the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church...
Page 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Page 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 201 - Every thing is marked at a settled price. Our time, our labor, our ingenuity, is so much ready money, which we are to lay out to the best advantage. Examine, compare, choose, reject ; but stand to your own judgment, and do not, like children, when you have purchased one thing, repine that you do not possess another which you did not purchase.
Page 201 - In short, you must not attempt to enlarge your ideas, or polish your taste, or refine your sentiments ; but must keep on in one beaten track, without turning aside either to the right hand or to the left. " But I cannot submit to drudgery like this — I feel a spirit above it.
Page 294 - Oh ! let her read, nor loudly, nor elate, The doom that bars us from a better fate ; But, sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in ! And well may Doubt, the mother of Dismay, Pause at her martyr's tomb, and read the lay.