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" ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind. "
Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ... - Page 308
by Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 846 pages
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 16

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1858 - 956 pages
...similitude of God.' Dr. Taylor's philosophy and theology accorded with that saying, ' In the world there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind ; in mind there is nothing great but what is moral.' To refer all our knowledge, even the knowledge...
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The works of Thomas Reid, with selections from his unpublished letters ...

Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN,, STEWART, AND CO. ; AND I OSDOÄ : LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN AND LONGMANS. M1XJCCXLVI. I ON EARTH, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN; IN MAN, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. то VICTOR COUSIN, РЕЕВ OF FRANCE, LATE MINISTER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JIE3IBER OF THE INSTITUTE,...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 3-4

1847 - 910 pages
...of the grandeur of the MIND, and in showing the duty of cultivating it. " On earth," says Pascal, " there is nothing great but man • — in man there is nothing great but mind." Its health consists in the development, harmony, and activity of its powers, and depends on knowledge....
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Christian Theism: The Testimony of Reason and Revelation to the ..., Volume 1

Robert Anchor Thompson - Christianity - 1855 - 522 pages
...concourse of atoms. But this is only the beginning of its difficulty. Man is the wonder of creation. " In earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." Such, however, is not the doctrine of the atheist. He must rob the mind of every thing that makes it...
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Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-wise and Beneficent Creator

John Tulloch - Theism - 1855 - 400 pages
...man in His own image." The same truth is classically expressed in the memorial words — " In nature there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." According to this view, man, while in the very fact of his present existence a product of nature, is...
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Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-wise and Beneficent Creator

John Tulloch - Theism - 1855 - 418 pages
...man in His own image." The same truth is classically expressed in the memorial words — " In nature there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." According to this view, man, while in the very fact of his present existence a product of nature, is...
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Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State ..., Volume 125

Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1923 - 116 pages
...whether immatured or broken afterward, is a State's menace in proportion to its spread. "In the world, there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind." It is the rapid multiplying of grown people with child minds that is our nation's greatest danger now....
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Edinburgh Essays

University of Edinburgh - English essays - 1857 - 430 pages
...fundamental truth to be held by, and fruitful of all noble consequences when consistently applied. " ON EARTH THERE is NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN; IN MAN THERE is NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND," is a sentence which the late Sir William Hamilton considered of sufficient significancy to paint in...
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The Ethics of Aristotle: Illustrated with Essays and Notes, Volume 1

Aristotle - Ethics - 1857 - 306 pages
...researches in Ethics led him to modify. But he never would have accepted the saying, ' In the world there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind' — and as we may surely go on to add, ' in mind there is nothing great but what is moral.' We can...
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Edinburgh Essays

University of Edinburgh - English essays - 1857 - 430 pages
...the latter being the well-known motto prefixed by Sir William to his edition of Reid's works — " On Earth there is nothing great but Man ; in Man there is notlu'ng great but Mind." Below this are a number of long narrow boards, ranged in order on a line,...
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