Man's Place in the Cosmos: And Other EssaysW. Blackwood and sons, 1897 - 308 páginas |
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... true art no less than of morality . But besides being bad art , litera- ture of this sort has a subtly corrosive influence upon the ethical temper . For the power of will , as Lamen- nais said , is that in us which is most quickly used ...
... true art no less than of morality . But besides being bad art , litera- ture of this sort has a subtly corrosive influence upon the ethical temper . For the power of will , as Lamen- nais said , is that in us which is most quickly used ...
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... true philosophy of life . Many will remember , too , how Matthew Arnold took up this parable when he discoursed in America on the cult of the great goddess Lubricity , to which , as he said , contemporary France seemed more and more to ...
... true philosophy of life . Many will remember , too , how Matthew Arnold took up this parable when he discoursed in America on the cult of the great goddess Lubricity , to which , as he said , contemporary France seemed more and more to ...
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... true understanding of the world it is far more vital to grasp the significance of this breach than to be misled by a cheap desire for unity and system into minimising , or even denying , the fact . It is time , however , to examine ...
... true understanding of the world it is far more vital to grasp the significance of this breach than to be misled by a cheap desire for unity and system into minimising , or even denying , the fact . It is time , however , to examine ...
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... true nature of the cause only becomes apparent in the effect . Now , if we explain a fact by giving " the preceding set of facts out of which it arose , " we practically resolve the fact into these ante- cedents - that is to say , we ...
... true nature of the cause only becomes apparent in the effect . Now , if we explain a fact by giving " the preceding set of facts out of which it arose , " we practically resolve the fact into these ante- cedents - that is to say , we ...
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... true sense , the cause of the phenomenon . We have elimi- nated the very characteristic we set out to explain- namely , the difference of the new phenomenon from the antecedents out of which it appears to have been evolved . Hence it is ...
... true sense , the cause of the phenomenon . We have elimi- nated the very characteristic we set out to explain- namely , the difference of the new phenomenon from the antecedents out of which it appears to have been evolved . Hence it is ...
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Página 13 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 6 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
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Página 6 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival...
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