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... answered that the comparison is not a fair one , since the race has no fellows - only inferiors . But even to mix with inferiors is better than to have no society at all , provided the notion of caste can be kept out . And this notion ...
... answered that the comparison is not a fair one , since the race has no fellows - only inferiors . But even to mix with inferiors is better than to have no society at all , provided the notion of caste can be kept out . And this notion ...
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... has been often pointed out and often lost sight of that there are two distinct problems in ethical science- one , " What is right ? " The other , " Why must I do what is right ? " For a satisfactory answer to THE TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT . 7.
... has been often pointed out and often lost sight of that there are two distinct problems in ethical science- one , " What is right ? " The other , " Why must I do what is right ? " For a satisfactory answer to THE TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT . 7.
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... answer only from within . Why , then , do moralists of Or rather , why are there the two schools ever wrangle ? two ... answer to the further inquiry , " Why must I do what is right ? " The answer to that , if it is to come at all , must ...
... answer only from within . Why , then , do moralists of Or rather , why are there the two schools ever wrangle ? two ... answer to the further inquiry , " Why must I do what is right ? " The answer to that , if it is to come at all , must ...
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... answer , the same as of all other moral standards - the conscientious feelings of mankind . " Those who have reproached Mill with inconsistency on the score of this passage seem themselves to confuse the two questions , " What is right ...
... answer , the same as of all other moral standards - the conscientious feelings of mankind . " Those who have reproached Mill with inconsistency on the score of this passage seem themselves to confuse the two questions , " What is right ...
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... answer to which is a matter for the intellect to determine ; whereas the proper sphere of Intuitionalism is the other question " Why must I do what is right ? " to which no response can come except from the emotions . Intuitionalism ...
... answer to which is a matter for the intellect to determine ; whereas the proper sphere of Intuitionalism is the other question " Why must I do what is right ? " to which no response can come except from the emotions . Intuitionalism ...
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Page 245 - 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 52 - 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 235 - ... 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 59 - 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 243 - 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 140 - 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 248 - 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 225 - 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 193 - 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.