Seven Lectures on the Doctrine of Positivism: Delivered at the Positivist School ... in May, June, and July, 1879Reeves and Turner, 1880 - 122 sider |
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... basis - one scientifically founded . The intellectual basis of Positivism is one which becomes stronger , not weaker , by time ; while its religious satisfac- tions are so numerous and perennial as to adequately meet the wants of all ...
... basis - one scientifically founded . The intellectual basis of Positivism is one which becomes stronger , not weaker , by time ; while its religious satisfac- tions are so numerous and perennial as to adequately meet the wants of all ...
Side 33
... basis of civilisa- tion , grew up . How deep this attachment to the roof - tree and its surroundings was might be seen where negroes were torn from their homes and driven to other spots . We mention these characteristics of Fetichism ...
... basis of civilisa- tion , grew up . How deep this attachment to the roof - tree and its surroundings was might be seen where negroes were torn from their homes and driven to other spots . We mention these characteristics of Fetichism ...
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... basis upon which all knowledge is built up ; phenomena must be known in the concrete be- fore they could be known in the abstract . Empirical ob- servations must be acquired and assimilated before sciences can be formed . All knowledge ...
... basis upon which all knowledge is built up ; phenomena must be known in the concrete be- fore they could be known in the abstract . Empirical ob- servations must be acquired and assimilated before sciences can be formed . All knowledge ...
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... basis for subsequent scientific discoveries . How far mathematical researches were carried may be judged by the fact that Hipparchus came near to making the discovery which thirteen centuries afterwards immor- talised the name of ...
... basis for subsequent scientific discoveries . How far mathematical researches were carried may be judged by the fact that Hipparchus came near to making the discovery which thirteen centuries afterwards immor- talised the name of ...
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... basis of Social , Poly- theism to mould and fashion semi - theocratic populations into one great people . We know how thoroughly she per- formed her task , which , although a more practical one than that of Greece , demanded talents of ...
... basis of Social , Poly- theism to mould and fashion semi - theocratic populations into one great people . We know how thoroughly she per- formed her task , which , although a more practical one than that of Greece , demanded talents of ...
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Absolute abstract active affective animals Aristotle Astronomy Auguste Comte's become Bichat Biology brain Cæsar Catholicism Chemistry civilisation complete Comte Comte's Law conception concrete connection constantly Cosmology Descartes dynamical egoism Electrology encyclopædic endeavoured existence explain external order fact feelings Fetichism Fetichist Frederic Harrison functions G. H. Lewes heart higher Hipparchus human race individual inorganic instinct intellectual J. S. Mill Julius Cæsar knowledge labour LECTURE less living logical man's mankind Mathematics mental metaphysical metaphysical stage mind modify Monotheism moral science nature never notions nutrition object organic organisation Pantheism phenomena philosophy physical point of view Polytheism Positive Positivism Positivist practical primitive principle progress reality regarded relation relative religion religious render Rome says scientific Scientists social society Sociology species speculations statical subjective subordinate synthesis systematising tendency theism Theocracies Theologism theory things thinkers thought Three Stages tion true truth unity vegetable worship
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Side 77 - And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his "humorous stage...
Side 79 - And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his "humorous stage" With all the Persons, down to palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation.
Side 81 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Side 43 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Side 77 - mid work of his own hand he lies Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes ! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart...
Side 25 - Fetichism, and banishes it from the regions of reality into those of conventional fictions, yet the force of momentary passion will often suffice to supersede the acquired habit, and even an intelligent man* may be impelled in a moment of agonizing pain to kick or beat the lifeless object from which he has suffered.
Side 87 - ... between the Science of Life and the Science of Society. He saw clearly that the facts presented by masses of associated men, are facts of the same order as those presented by groups of gregarious creatures of inferior kinds ; and that in the one case, as in the other, the individuals must be studied before the assemblages can be understood. He therefore placed Biology before Sociology in his classification of the sciences. Biological preparation for sociological study, he regarded as needful...
Side 79 - What ! Shall the trick of nostrils and of lips Descend through generations, and the soul That moves within our frame like God in worlds...
Side 33 - There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.