Illustrations of universal progressD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 451 páginas |
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... human nature for the 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,
... human nature for the 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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Herbert Spencer. -a soul of truth , which remains when their conflicting doctrines and discordant peculiarities are mutually cancelled . In the lower and grosser forms of religion this truth is but dimly discerned , but becomes ever ...
Herbert Spencer. -a soul of truth , which remains when their conflicting doctrines and discordant peculiarities are mutually cancelled . In the lower and grosser forms of religion this truth is but dimly discerned , but becomes ever ...
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... remains in strata previously supposed to contain none , -of reptiles where only fish were thought to exist , -of mammals where it was believed there were no creatures higher than rep- tiles , -renders it daily more manifest how small is ...
... remains in strata previously supposed to contain none , -of reptiles where only fish were thought to exist , -of mammals where it was believed there were no creatures higher than rep- tiles , -renders it daily more manifest how small is ...
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... remains are those of Fishes ; and Fishes are the most homogeneous of the vertebrata . Later and more heterogeneous are Rep- tiles . Later still , and more heterogeneous still , are Mam- mals and Birds . If it be said , as it may fairly ...
... remains are those of Fishes ; and Fishes are the most homogeneous of the vertebrata . Later and more heterogeneous are Rep- tiles . Later still , and more heterogeneous still , are Mam- mals and Birds . If it be said , as it may fairly ...
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... remains true that such causes are far less complex than their results . Detailed criticisms can- not affect our main position . Endless facts go to show that every kind of progress is from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous ; and that ...
... remains true that such causes are far less complex than their results . Detailed criticisms can- not affect our main position . Endless facts go to show that every kind of progress is from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous ; and that ...
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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.