The Philosophy of Necessity: Or, Law in Mind as in Matter |
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action animal Animal Magnetism antecedent appears believe bodily body brain calculation called cause chemical affinity circumstances clairvoyance classes condition connexion consciousness consequence constitution creation deflagration Deontology dependent derived direction disease doctrine earth effect England enjoyment equally evidence evil exercise existence experience external fact feelings force functions George Combe George Stephenson give happiness Herbert Spencer human ideas increase individual infinite infusoria instinctively intellectual faculties intelligence invariable J. S. Mill knowledge labour laws less live manifestation mankind matter means mental faculties Mesmerism mind mode moral motives natura naturata nature nebular hypothesis necessary Necessitarian necessity nervous system object observed organs ourselves pain perceive perception persons phenomena Philosophy Phrenologists physical pleasure population possess present principle produce reason relation result Retributive justice says sensation sense society somnambulism soul substance supposed tendency things thought tion true truth universe virtue whole
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Page 293 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Page 323 - Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good: And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 323 - From dearth to plenty, and from death to life, Is Nature's progress, when she lectures man In heavenly truth ; evincing, as she makes The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Page 194 - The original of them all, is that which we call "sense," for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.
Page 84 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine...
Page 151 - Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance ; and, in the majority of young persons, it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.
Page 322 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 194 - Singly, they are every one a representation or appearance, of some quality, or other accident of a body without us, which is commonly called an object. Which object worketh on the eyes, ears, and other parts of a man's body; and by diversity of working produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE...
Page 256 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 27 - To prevent this, we have a power to suspend the prosecution of this or that desire, as every one daily may experiment in himself. This seems to me the source of all liberty; in this seems to consist that which is (as I think improperly) called freewill.