Illustrations of universal progressD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 451 páginas |
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... religious sentiment , Mr. Spencer next shows that all reli- gions rest upon this foundation , and contain a fundamental verity -a soul of truth , which remains when their conflicting -BAIN ON THE EMOTIONS AND THE WILL,
... religious sentiment , Mr. Spencer next shows that all reli- gions rest upon this foundation , and contain a fundamental verity -a soul of truth , which remains when their conflicting -BAIN ON THE EMOTIONS AND THE WILL,
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... EMOTIONS AND THE WILL , VIII . ILLOGICAL GEOLOGY , · IX . THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS , X. - THE SOCIAL ORGANISM , 1 61 116 · 194 210 • 239 300 · • 325 377 384 XI . — USE AND Beauty , 429 • XII . THE SOURCES OF ARCHITECTURAL TYPES , 434 ...
... EMOTIONS AND THE WILL , VIII . ILLOGICAL GEOLOGY , · IX . THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS , X. - THE SOCIAL ORGANISM , 1 61 116 · 194 210 • 239 300 · • 325 377 384 XI . — USE AND Beauty , 429 • XII . THE SOURCES OF ARCHITECTURAL TYPES , 434 ...
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... emotions . Illustrations to the same effect might be indefinitely ac- cumulated . That every influence brought to bear upon so- ciety works multiplied effects ; and that increase of hetero- geneity is due to this multiplication of ...
... emotions . Illustrations to the same effect might be indefinitely ac- cumulated . That every influence brought to bear upon so- ciety works multiplied effects ; and that increase of hetero- geneity is due to this multiplication of ...
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... emotions . to which social intercourse ministers , are of extremely com- plex nature ; they consequently depend for their production upon very numerous conditions ; the more numerous the conditions , the greater the liability that one ...
... emotions . to which social intercourse ministers , are of extremely com- plex nature ; they consequently depend for their production upon very numerous conditions ; the more numerous the conditions , the greater the liability that one ...
Página 107
... emotions by adding another's to them . Who is there that has not , from time to time , felt how cold and flat is all this talk about politics and science , and the new books and the new men , and how a genuine utterance of fellow ...
... emotions by adding another's to them . Who is there that has not , from time to time , felt how cold and flat is all this talk about politics and science , and the new books and the new men , and how a genuine utterance of fellow ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abstract action aggregation alike analogy animals astronomy become body cause centre centrifugal force changes character classification comets common complex Comte concrete mathematics consciousness considered creatures crust deposits Devonian differentiation direction division doctrine Earth emotions equal evidence evolution excitement exist 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 less manifest mass matter ment mental mode modifications mollusks motion muscular nature nebula Nebular Hypothesis nebulous nervous observation orbits organic original phenomena planets present prevision 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 tribes truth vocal
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Página 71 - The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " — we shall presently have a separate organization here also.
Página 107 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 59 - In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable.
Página 162 - First, who commanded that the ulna, or ancient ell, which answers to the modern yard, should be made of the exact length of his own arm. And...
Página 58 - It will be seen that as in each event of to-day, so from the beginning, the decomposition of every expended force into several forces has been perpetually producing a higher complication; that the increase of heterogeneity so brought about is still going on, and must continue to go on; and that thus Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity.
Página 389 - Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man ; for by art is created that great leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Ciutas) which is but an artificial man...
Página 145 - They mosculate ; they severally send off and receive connecting growths ; and the intercommunion has been ever becoming more frequent, more intricate, more widely ramified. There has all along been higher specialization, that there might be a larger generalization ; and a deeper analysis, t hat there might be a better synthesis. Each larger generalization has lifted sundry specializations still higher ; and each better synthesis has prepared the way for still deeper analysis.
Página 31 - We may suspect a priori that in some law of change lies the explanation of this universal transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous. Thus much premised, we pass at once to the statement of the law, which is this: — Every active force produces more than one change — every cause produces more than one effect.