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" I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain... "
The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 1056
edited by - 1900 - 4190 pages
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Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics

Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and...apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility. I also hold that just as the space-intuition responds to the exact demonstrations of Geometry, and...
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Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics

Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 904 pages
...consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and...apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility. I also hold that just as the space-intuition responds to the exact demonstrations of Geometry, and...
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Moral Science: A Compendium of Ethics

Alexander Bain - History - 1869 - 348 pages
...consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and...apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility. I also hold that just as the space-intuition responds to the exact demonstrations of Geometry, and...
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Papers Read at the Meetings of the Metaphysical Society, Volume 1

Learned institutions and societies - 1869 - 280 pages
...continued transmissions and accumulation have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition, — active emotions responding to right and wrong conduct which...apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility. I also hold that just as the space intuition responds to the exact demonstrations of geometry, and...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 20

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1869 - 610 pages
...trans" missions and accumulation, have be" come in us certain faculties of moral " intuition — active emotions responding " to right and wrong conduct which ' have no apparent basis in the indivi' dual experiences of utility. I also ' hold that, just as the space intuition ' responds to...
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The Theological Review, Volume 8

Christianity - 1871 - 608 pages
...from Mr. Herbert Spencer the following definition, as applied to the moral sentiments : f " I believe that the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated...apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility." This doctrine (which received a very remarkable answer in an article by Mr. RH Hutton, Macmillan's...
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The Theological review [ed. by C. Beard]., Volume 8

Charles Beard - 1871 - 602 pages
...from Mr. Herbert Spencer the following definition, as applied to the moral sentiments: f " I believe that the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated...apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility." This doctrine (which received a very remarkable answer in an article by Mr. BH Hutton, Macmillan's...
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The Descent of man

Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pages
...philosopher, Herbert Spencer, has recently explained his views on the moral sense. He says : " " I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated...apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility." M Tennyson, ' Idylls of the King,' p. 244. M ' The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurclius Antoninus,'...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 13; Volume 15

England - 1871 - 830 pages
...organised and consolidated during all past generations of the human race, have been producing nervous modifications, which by continued transmission and...basis in the individual experiences of utility." Mr. H. Spencer is himself a moralist of a high type, and in the sentence quoted he evidently acknowledges...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 15

1871 - 834 pages
...organised and consolidated during all past generations of the human race, have been producing nervous modifications, which by continued transmission and...basis in the individual experiences of utility." Mr. H. Spencer is himself a moralist of a high type, and in the sentence quoted he evidently acknowledges...
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