Illustrations of universal progressD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 451 páginas |
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Página viii
... position upon this grave subject without giving also the accompanying reasoning ; but so compressed and symmetrical is his argument that it cannot be put into narrower compass without mutilation . To those interested in the advance of ...
... position upon this grave subject without giving also the accompanying reasoning ; but so compressed and symmetrical is his argument that it cannot be put into narrower compass without mutilation . To those interested in the advance of ...
Página xiv
... position having been assumed by sev- eral of his reviewers , he repels the charge in the following letter , which ... positions of my argument , but he inadvertently conveys a wrong impression respecting my tendencies and sympathies . He ...
... position having been assumed by sev- eral of his reviewers , he repels the charge in the following letter , which ... positions of my argument , but he inadvertently conveys a wrong impression respecting my tendencies and sympathies . He ...
Página xv
... position , you will , I think , see that by classing me as a Positivist , and tacitly including me among the English admirers and disciples of Comte , your reviewer unintentionally misrepresents me . I am quite ready to bear the odium ...
... position , you will , I think , see that by classing me as a Positivist , and tacitly including me among the English admirers and disciples of Comte , your reviewer unintentionally misrepresents me . I am quite ready to bear the odium ...
Página xx
... position , but preeminently the religious position ; and we are most thoroughly disposed to agree with him , though we think he does not appreciate the force of his own argument , nor fully under- stand his own words . For let us now ...
... position , but preeminently the religious position ; and we are most thoroughly disposed to agree with him , though we think he does not appreciate the force of his own argument , nor fully under- stand his own words . For let us now ...
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... positions , we may cite the fact that , in the relative development of the limbs , the civilized man departs more widely from the general type of the placental mammalia than do the lower human races . While often possessing well ...
... positions , we may cite the fact that , in the relative development of the limbs , the civilized man departs more widely from the general type of the placental mammalia than do the lower human races . While often possessing well ...
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.