 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...does not hesitate to declare, and we agree with him, is in the long run, futile.* He falls back on ' the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race' whereby we have attained, in his view, to ' certain faculties of moral intuition.' Hence, with the... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...organisms." According to Spencer, " revealed religion is impossible," and moral truths and feelings but "the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the [human race, ,which have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, and which, by continued transmission... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...definite and complete by personal experiences, has practically become a form of thought, apparently quite independent of experience ; so do I believe...corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 904 pages
...definite and complete by personal experiences, has practically become a form of thought, apparently quite independent of experience ; so do I believe...corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions... | |
 | 1869 - 588 pages
...е.ч" periences, has practically become a form " of thought quite independent of expe" rience ; — so do I believe that the " experiences of utility, organized and " consolidated through all past genera" t ions of the human race, have bei n " producing corresponding nervous rco" difications which,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - History - 1869 - 348 pages
...definite and complete by personal experiences, has practically become a form of thought, apparently quite independent of experience ; so do I believe that the experiences of utility organised and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Philosophy - 1869 - 350 pages
...definite and complete by personal experiences, has practically become a form of thought, apparently quite independent of experience ; so do I believe that the experiences of utility organised and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1871 - 372 pages
...consolidated experiences of all antecedent individuals, who bequeathed to him their slowly-developed nervous organizations ; just as I believe that this...nervous modifications which, by continued transmissions of accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition, active emotions responding... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 pages
...personal experiences, has practically become a form of thought quite independent of experience;—so do I believe that the experiences of utility, organized...nervous modifications which, by continued transmissions of accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition, active emotions responding... | |
 | Christianity - 1871 - 608 pages
...in 1868, from Mr. Herbert Spencer the following definition, as applied to the moral sentiments : f " I believe that the experiences of utility, organized...the human race, have been producing corresponding modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have become in us certain faculties... | |
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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... 
