Science and Sentiment: With Other Papers, Chiefly PhilosophicalScribner, 1882 - 506 páginas |
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accept agent agnostic agnosticism analogies animal argument assert assumed atheistic Auguste Comte believe brain called Christian common Comte concede conceived conceptions concerning conclusions confidence consciousness conviction creed criticism definite deism Descartes doctrine essay ethical evolution existence experience explain fact faith faith in Christian feelings force George Grote growth Herbert Spencer human Hume Hume's ideas important induction inquiry intellectual intelligence interpret James Mill John Stuart Mill John Tyndall Kant Kant's knowledge laws living logical man's Manichean material matter ment metaphysics methods Mill Mill's mind moral never noumenon object organic pantheistic phenomena philosophy physical physiological positive possible Princeton Review principles processes Professor Huxley question reader reason recognized relations religion religious respect science of nature scientific sensations sense Sentiment social sociology soul speculative Spencer spirit supernatural theology theory thing thinkers thinking thought tion true truth Tyndall uncon universe words writings
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Página 183 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Página 292 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Página 303 - Those perceptions which enter with most force and violence we may name impressions ; and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions, and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul.
Página 453 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Página 112 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself, "Suppose that all your objects in life were...
Página 190 - ... must place the Prophet of Nazareth, even in the estimation of those who have no belief in his inspiration, in the very first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast.
Página 221 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 221 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 190 - ... conception of the rational sceptic, it remains a possibility that Christ actually was what he supposed himself to be...