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... nature . To understand what man ought to do , it is neces- sary to know what man is . Not that the Moral Philosopher , before entering upon those inquiries which peculiarly be- long to him , must go over the Science of human nature in ...
... nature . To understand what man ought to do , it is neces- sary to know what man is . Not that the Moral Philosopher , before entering upon those inquiries which peculiarly be- long to him , must go over the Science of human nature in ...
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... nature and consequences . Reason enables us to discern the nature and consequences of actions ; Will enables us to design or determine actions , with a view to their nature and con- sequences so that , when we act intentionally , we ...
... nature and consequences . Reason enables us to discern the nature and consequences of actions ; Will enables us to design or determine actions , with a view to their nature and con- sequences so that , when we act intentionally , we ...
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... Nature , vol . ii . p . 132 ) defines Instinct to be " the operation of the living principle . " " The life is the ... Nature , or Spirit of Nature , which pervades and assists all cor- ( Stewart , Phil . of Human Mind , vol BOOK I. 21 ...
... Nature , vol . ii . p . 132 ) defines Instinct to be " the operation of the living principle . " " The life is the ... Nature , or Spirit of Nature , which pervades and assists all cor- ( Stewart , Phil . of Human Mind , vol BOOK I. 21 ...
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... nature , and is a living creature Desire belongs to him be- cause he is possessed of an intelligent nature , and is a reasonable being . Matter has its attractions and affinities . Brutes have their Instincts and Appetites . Man only ...
... nature , and is a living creature Desire belongs to him be- cause he is possessed of an intelligent nature , and is a reasonable being . Matter has its attractions and affinities . Brutes have their Instincts and Appetites . Man only ...
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... nature . Man has a nature ; and his nature has an end . This end is indicated by certain tendencies . He feels inclination or Desire towards certain objects , which are suited to his faculties and fitted to improve them . The attainment ...
... nature . Man has a nature ; and his nature has an end . This end is indicated by certain tendencies . He feels inclination or Desire towards certain objects , which are suited to his faculties and fitted to improve them . The attainment ...
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Page 322 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 134 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 222 - Calvinism presents, it cannot be denied that " such knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it.
Page 175 - By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctly.
Page 112 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth 'good'; and the object of his hate and aversion, 'evil'; and of his contempt 'vile' and 'inconsiderable.' For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Page 383 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 109 - ... determinately some actions to be in themselves just, right, good; others to be in themselves evil, wrong, unjust, which, without being consulted, without being advised with, magisterially exerts itself, and approves or condemns him the doer of them accordingly; and which, if not forcibly stopped, naturally and always of course goes on to anticipate a higher and more effectual sentence which shall hereafter second and affirm its own.
Page 362 - Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 225 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 76 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams: and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions \ 7 and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.