Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy, المجلد 4Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902 |
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adjustment anarchical theories animals anthropomorphic hypothesis argument Aryan assert barbarism become belief brute cause cerebrum chapter Christianity civilization complex Comte conception consciousness Cosmic Philosophy Cosmism Deity difference Divine action Doctrine of Evolution ence environment ethical ethical code evil existence fact feelings force habits of thought hand hedonism Hence higher highest individual infinite inquiry intellectual intelligence knowable knowledge less limits lution maintained manifested mankind mediæval ment mental mind mode modern moral sense motion nameless point natural law natural selection ness nevertheless organic pain pantheistic phenomena philoso physical pleasure Plutarch pomorphic Positivism present primeval primitive principles of action process of evolution progress psychical quasi-human agencies regarded relations relativity of knowledge religion religious result savage scientific inquirer Sir Henry Maine social society Spencer teleological theism theologians theology theorem theory things thinker tion tive tribes truth universe Unknowable volition καὶ
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الصفحة 161 - Was war ein Gott, der nur von außen stieße, Im Kreis das All am Finger laufen ließe! Ihm ziemt's, die Welt im Innern zu bewegen, Natur in Sich, Sich in Natur zu hegen, So daß, was in Ihm lebt und webt und ist, Nie Seine Kraft, nie Seinen Geist vermißt.
الصفحة 250 - Streams will not curb their pride The just man not to entomb, Nor lightnings go aside To give his virtues room; Nor is that wind less rough which blows a good man's barge.
الصفحة 248 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
الصفحة 229 - Then sawest thou that this fair universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the Stardomed City of God ; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams.
الصفحة 51 - Dinah, my spaniel, equally embarrassed on the other. She was overlooking half a dozen of her new-born puppies, which had been removed two or three times from her, and her anxiety was excessive, as she tried to find out if they were all godlike intellect evidently will not apply here.
الصفحة 134 - The prolonged helplessness of the offspring must keep the parents together for longer and longer periods in successive epochs ; and when at last the association is so long kept up that the older children are growing mature while the younger ones still need protection, the family relations begin to become permanent.
الصفحة 114 - ... if the states of consciousness which a creature endeavours to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions, and if the states of consciousness which it endeavours to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial.
الصفحة 230 - We attempt to escape from this apparent contradiction, by introducing the idea of succession in time. The absolute exists first by itself, and afterwards becomes a cause. But here we are checked by the third conception, that of the infinite. How can the infinite become that which it was not from the first ? If causation is a possible mode of existence, that which exists without causing is not infinite ; that which becomes a cause has passed beyond its former limits.
الصفحة 9 - Tribes in which such mental and moral qualities were predominant would therefore have an advantage in the struggle for existence over other tribes in which they were less developed, would live and maintain their numbers, while the others would decrease and finally succumb.
الصفحة 108 - But before we can proceed directly upon the course thus marked out, it is necessary that we should determine what are meant by pleasures and pains. What are the common characteristics, on the one hand, of the states of consciousness which we call pleasures, and, on the other hand, of the states of consciousness which we call pains ? According to Sir William Hamilton, " pleasure is a reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of a power of whose energy we are conscious ; pain is a reflex of...