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... become acquainted with " consump- tive literature , " or the peculiar kind of what is called " religious experience " felt by consumptive patients ; and the connection of hysteria , or morbid 10 THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS .
... become acquainted with " consump- tive literature , " or the peculiar kind of what is called " religious experience " felt by consumptive patients ; and the connection of hysteria , or morbid 10 THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS .
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... becoming the subjects of con- sciousness , that we grow acquainted with the facts of the world that lies within us . We should there- fore expect that science will continually unfold new f views , many of which will not harmonize with ...
... becoming the subjects of con- sciousness , that we grow acquainted with the facts of the world that lies within us . We should there- fore expect that science will continually unfold new f views , many of which will not harmonize with ...
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... thousand feet higher they would become abodes of desolation , covered with eternal ice and snow , where the simplest cellular plants would bear the only testi- mony that life was still abroad . No one finds 16 THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS .
... thousand feet higher they would become abodes of desolation , covered with eternal ice and snow , where the simplest cellular plants would bear the only testi- mony that life was still abroad . No one finds 16 THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS .
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... become so popular that endeavours to trace any inevitable sequence of cause and effect in the regions of mind or morals have appeared to involve a degradation of the human soul to the condition of brute matter . In the first place let ...
... become so popular that endeavours to trace any inevitable sequence of cause and effect in the regions of mind or morals have appeared to involve a degradation of the human soul to the condition of brute matter . In the first place let ...
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... become a man ; Who dares do more , is none , " -we see an illustration of the limits within which human capabilities must be exercised , and the sequel of the story , with its palsy of all the higher faculties , shows that loss of ...
... become a man ; Who dares do more , is none , " -we see an illustration of the limits within which human capabilities must be exercised , and the sequel of the story , with its palsy of all the higher faculties , shows that loss of ...
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Page 87 - 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.
Page 109 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 74 - ... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 157 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 4 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 238 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 165 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 47 - In the final, the positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after Absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, — that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance.
Page 22 - Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Page 46 - ... who had merely adopted the commonplaces of received opinion, that he did not understand the subject — that he as yet attached no definite meaning to the doctrines he professed ; in order that, becoming aware of his ignorance, he might be put in the way to attain a stable belief, resting on a clear apprehension both of the meaning of doctrines and of their evidence.