Recent Discussions in Science, Philosophy, and MoralsD. Appleton, 1882 - 349 |
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... less true that mere expediency does not of itself tend to establish a system of things any better than that which exists . While absolute morality owes to expediency the checks which prevent it from rush- ing into Utopian absurdities ...
... less true that mere expediency does not of itself tend to establish a system of things any better than that which exists . While absolute morality owes to expediency the checks which prevent it from rush- ing into Utopian absurdities ...
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... less inclined to smile than he was when he read Mr. Hutton's account . I cannot here do more than thus imply the invalidity of such part of Mr. Hutton's argument as proceeds upon this incorrect repre- sentation . The pages that would be ...
... less inclined to smile than he was when he read Mr. Hutton's account . I cannot here do more than thus imply the invalidity of such part of Mr. Hutton's argument as proceeds upon this incorrect repre- sentation . The pages that would be ...
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... less remote , have been continually associated with the im- pressions received from knit brows and set teeth and grating voice . Much deeper down than the history of the human race must we go to find the beginnings of these connections ...
... less remote , have been continually associated with the im- pressions received from knit brows and set teeth and grating voice . Much deeper down than the history of the human race must we go to find the beginnings of these connections ...
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... less of the resulting dread . He has no thought of the utility or inutility of the act itself ; the deterrent is the mainly vague , but partially definite , fear of evil that may follow . So understood , the deterring emotion is one ...
... less of the resulting dread . He has no thought of the utility or inutility of the act itself ; the deterrent is the mainly vague , but partially definite , fear of evil that may follow . So understood , the deterring emotion is one ...
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... less close , all creatures having kinds of food and supplies of food that permit association ; and established psychological laws warrant the inference that some sympathy will inevitably result from habitual manifestations of feelings ...
... less close , all creatures having kinds of food and supplies of food that permit association ; and established psychological laws warrant the inference that some sympathy will inevitably result from habitual manifestations of feelings ...
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Strona 11 - These good and bad results cannot be accidental, but must be necessary consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery.
Strona 182 - ... which is M. Comte's definition of "the most simple phenomena." Does it not indeed follow from the familiarly admitted fact, that mental advance is from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular to the general, that the universal and therefore most simple truths are the last to be discovered?
Strona 333 - Like changes are known to occur in some gaseous, non-metallic elements, as oxygen; and also in metallic elements, as antimony. These total changes of properties, brought about without any changes to be called chemical, are interpretable only as due to molecular rearrangements; and, by showing that difference of property is producible by difference of arrangement, they support the inference otherwise to be drawn, that the properties of different elements result from differences of arrangement arising...
Strona 125 - All social phenomena are produced by the totality of human emotions and beliefs : of which the emotions are mainly pre-determined, while the beliefs are mainly post-determined. Men's desires are chiefly inherited ; but their beliefs are chiefly acquired, and depend on surrounding conditions ; and the most important surrounding conditions depend on the social state which the prevalent desires have produced. The social state at any time existing, is the resultant of all the ambitions, self-interests,...
Strona 306 - ... that it is hardly possible not to be impressed with the idea of a luminous medium intermixed, but not confounded, with a transparent and non-luminous atmosphere, either floating as clouds in our air, or pervading it in vast sheets and columns like flame, or the streamers of our northern lights, directed in lines perpendicular to the surface.
Strona 168 - The highest mathematical idea, or the fundamental principle of all mathematics is the zero = 0." * * * " Zero is in itself nothing. Mathematics is based upon nothing, and, consequently, arises out of nothing.
Strona 11 - I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct; and are to be conformed to, irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery' Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning.
Strona 331 - ... in order to start the world on its chemical career, you must enlarge its capital, and present it with an outfit of heterogeneous constituents. Try, therefore, the effect of such a gift ; fling into the preexisting caldron the whole list of recognized elementary substances, and give leave to their affinities to work.
Strona 202 - ... have been ventured, on discovering that all measures of extension and force originated from the lengths and weights of organic bodies; and all measures of time from the periodic phenomena of either organic or inorganic bodies. Thus, among linear measures, the cubit of the Hebrews was the length of the forearm from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; and the smaller scriptural dimensions are expressed in hand-breadths and spans.