Natural Law: An Essay in EthicsTrübner & Company, 1877 - 361 |
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Strona 207 - Thus deeply drinking in the soul of things, We shall be wise perforce ; and while inspired By choice, and conscious that the will is free,' Unswerving shall we move, as if impelled By strict necessity, along the path Of order and of good.
Strona 273 - Da ist's denn wieder, wie die Sterne wollten: Bedingung und Gesetz; und aller Wille Ist nur ein Wollen, weil wir eben sollten, Und vor dem Willen schweigt die Willkür stille; Das Liebste wird vom Herzen weggescholten, Dem harten Muß bequemt sich Will
Strona vi - For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, 'tis certain it must lie very deep and abstruse; and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous.
Strona 209 - ... and the more need he had of a curb, the less strength he had to use it, and this being the case of all the world, what was every man's evil became all men's greater evil ; and though alone it was very bad, yet when they came together it was made much worse ; like ships in a storm, every one alone hath enough to do to outride it ; but when they meet, besides the evils of the storm, they find the intolerable calamity of their mutual concussion, and every ship, that is ready to be oppressed with...
Strona 294 - I too rest in faith That man's perfection is the crowning flower, Toward which the urgent sap in life's great tree Is pressing, — seen in puny blossoms now, But in the world's great morrows to expand With broadest petal and with deepest glow.
Strona 209 - Agents, considered in themselves : but we must further remember also (which thing to touch, in a word, shall suffice), that as in this respect they have their Law, which Law directeth them in the means whereby they tend to their own perfection; so likewise another Law there is, which toucheth them as they are sociable parts united into one body: a Law which bindeth them each to serve unto other's good, and all to prefer the good of the whole, before whatsoever their own particular...
Strona 92 - declares, that " a very considerable number of the facts may be brought under the following principle, namely, that states of pleasure are connected with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions.
Strona 126 - Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth Thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse Thee to Thy face.
Strona 170 - Im Innern ist ein Universum auch ; Daher der Völker löblicher Gebrauch, Daß jeglicher das Beste, was er kennt, Er Gott, ja seinen Gott benennt, Ihm Himmel und Erden übergibt, Ihn fürchtet und wo möglich liebt.
Strona 129 - Do not look around thee to discover other men's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads thee, both the universal nature through the things which happen to thee, and thy own nature through the acts which must be done by thee.