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... accept it all the same . ' Had he been called upon to justify this very pardonable dogmatism , he would doubtless have taken refuge in his naïve formula- " Now facts are manifestly possible : for otherwise they would not have been facts ...
... accept it all the same . ' Had he been called upon to justify this very pardonable dogmatism , he would doubtless have taken refuge in his naïve formula- " Now facts are manifestly possible : for otherwise they would not have been facts ...
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... accepting in its proper place a given view , we must remember it is not the only one possible . So in ascending the hill of knowledge we shall best guard ourselves against stupidly discrediting accounts of scenery on the other side ...
... accepting in its proper place a given view , we must remember it is not the only one possible . So in ascending the hill of knowledge we shall best guard ourselves against stupidly discrediting accounts of scenery on the other side ...
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... accept both statements , though they are meant to be placed in such striking contrast . It is quite possible for us to believe that the race was originally void of all moral ideas - of all " knowledge of merit or demerit . " Possessing ...
... accept both statements , though they are meant to be placed in such striking contrast . It is quite possible for us to believe that the race was originally void of all moral ideas - of all " knowledge of merit or demerit . " Possessing ...
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... accept both statements , though they are meant to be placed in such striking contrast . It is quite possible for us to believe that the race was originally void of all moral ideas — of all " knowledge of merit or demerit . " Possessing ...
... accept both statements , though they are meant to be placed in such striking contrast . It is quite possible for us to believe that the race was originally void of all moral ideas — of all " knowledge of merit or demerit . " Possessing ...
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... accept Evolution and not deny Spiritualism . Instead of being pained to trace the brute in man , we should hail the promise of man in the brute . " Sons of the ape , but sires of the angel , " if we value not ourselves for what we are ...
... accept Evolution and not deny Spiritualism . Instead of being pained to trace the brute in man , we should hail the promise of man in the brute . " Sons of the ape , but sires of the angel , " if we value not ourselves for what we are ...
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Page 243 - WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh...
Page 11 - The internal sanction of duty, whatever our standard of duty may be, is one and the same, — a feeling' in our own mind; a pain, more or less intense, attendant on violation of duty, which, in properly cultivated moral natures, rises in the more serious cases into shrinking from it as an impossiLility.
Page 50 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 233 - ... for every fact of consciousness, whether in the domain of sense, of thought, or of emotion, a certain definite molecular condition is set up in the brain...
Page 57 - The gravity, solidity, age, and probity of so great an emperor, who through the whole course of his life, conversed in a familiar manner, with his friends and courtiers, and never affected those extraordinary airs of divinity assumed by Alexander and Demetrius.
Page 241 - God! — Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished, or are perishable; that the real Being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and forever.
Page 138 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 246 - Back to thy hell ! Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel; Thou never shall possess me, that I know: What I have done is done; I bear within A torture which could nothing gain from thine : The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts...
Page 223 - But the principle or inclination in one case is self-love ; in the other, hatred or love of another. There is then a distinction between the cool principle of self-love, or general desire of our own happiness, as one part of our nature, and one principle of action ; and the particular affections towards particular external objects, as another part of our nature, and another principle of action.
Page 191 - It is therefore evident there can be no substratum of those qualities but spirit; in which they exist, not by way of mode or property, but as a thing perceived in that which perceives it.