Illustrations of universal progressD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 451 páginas |
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Página xii
... individuals must precede an under- standing of their mutual relations , so an exposition of the laws of life and mind , which constitute the science of human nature , must precede the successful study of social phenomena . In this part ...
... individuals must precede an under- standing of their mutual relations , so an exposition of the laws of life and mind , which constitute the science of human nature , must precede the successful study of social phenomena . In this part ...
Página xiii
... individual life . Those rules of human action which all civilized nations have registered as essential laws - the inductions of morality - will be delineated , and also those mutual limitations of men's actions necessitated by their ...
... individual life . Those rules of human action which all civilized nations have registered as essential laws - the inductions of morality - will be delineated , and also those mutual limitations of men's actions necessitated by their ...
Página 1
... individual or people exhibiting it ; while , when the progress of Knowledge , of Science , of Art , i commented upon , we have in view certain abstract results of human thought and action . Not only , however , is the current conception ...
... individual or people exhibiting it ; while , when the progress of Knowledge , of Science , of Art , i commented upon , we have in view certain abstract results of human thought and action . Not only , however , is the current conception ...
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... individual organisms display in the course of their evolution , this question has been answered by the Germans . The investigations of Wolff , Goethe , and Von Baer , have established the truth that the series of changes gone through ...
... individual organisms display in the course of their evolution , this question has been answered by the Germans . The investigations of Wolff , Goethe , and Von Baer , have established the truth that the series of changes gone through ...
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... individual forms of life to Life in general , and inquire whether the same law is seen in the ensemble of its manifestations , - whether modern plants and animals are of more hetero- geneous structure than ancient ones , and whether the ...
... individual forms of life to Life in general , and inquire whether the same law is seen in the ensemble of its manifestations , - whether modern plants and animals are of more hetero- geneous structure than ancient ones , and whether the ...
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.