Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of DiscussionsD. Appleton, 1864 - 446 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abstract action advance aggregation alike analogy animals astronomy become body cause centre centrifugal force changes character classification comets common complex Comte concrete mathematics consciousness considered creatures crust Devonian differentiation direction division doctrine Earth emotions equal evidence evolution excitement exists fact Fauna feeling force formations forms fossils functions further geological gradually gravity greater groups heat Hence Herbert Spencer heterogeneous higher homogeneous Hugh Miller human Hydrozoa ideas illustrated implies increasing individual inference John Herschel kind knowledge less manifest mass matter mental mode modifications mollusks motion muscular nature nebulæ Nebular Hypothesis nervous observation orbits organic original phenomena philosophy planets present prevision principles produced progress races relations respect ring rotation satellites Saturn scarcely sensations Silurian Sir Charles Lyell social society Solar System species specific gravity Spencer spheroid stars strata successive sundry surface theory things thought tion trace truth
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Página 393 - For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, in Latin CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man ; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended, and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body ; the
Página 393 - and other officers of judicature and execution, artificial joints ; reward and punishment, by which, fastened to the seat of the sovereignty, every joint and member is moved to perform his duty, are the nerves, that do the same in
Página viii - Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end. If he looks inward, he perceives that both ends of the thread of consciousness are beyond his grasp.
Página 10 - It is alike true that, during the period in which the Earth has been peopled, the human organism has grown more heterogeneous among the civilized divisions of the species ; and that the species, as a whole, has been growing more heterogeneous in virtue of the multiplication of races and the differentiation of these races from each other.
Página xx - of life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of government, of manufactures, of commerce, of language, literature, science and art, this same advance from the simple to the complex, through successive
Página 141 - 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 ? Is not the government of the solar system by a force varying inversely as the square of the distance, a simpler conception than any that preceded it