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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Side 35
... direct man's future progress . The wor- ship of Fetichism , even when highly developed , requires at first no priest . For it is by its nature essentially a private worship ; each one may worship without a mediator beings which are ...
... direct man's future progress . The wor- ship of Fetichism , even when highly developed , requires at first no priest . For it is by its nature essentially a private worship ; each one may worship without a mediator beings which are ...
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... direct , if not a direct , bearing upon the physical problems which soon agitated the thinking world . How far some of the schoolmen carried their inquiries into the nature and being of God , may be gathered from Matthew Arnold's " God ...
... direct , if not a direct , bearing upon the physical problems which soon agitated the thinking world . How far some of the schoolmen carried their inquiries into the nature and being of God , may be gathered from Matthew Arnold's " God ...
Side 53
... direct and complete application of mathematical science . Still , if the general laws of number , extension , motion , could have been studied nowhere but in the heavenly bodies , they never would have been dis- covered , extremely ...
... direct and complete application of mathematical science . Still , if the general laws of number , extension , motion , could have been studied nowhere but in the heavenly bodies , they never would have been dis- covered , extremely ...
Side 55
... direct use . Its real essential adaptation is to enlarge to the utmost our power of deduction . The study of exten- sion and motion acquires , by the introduction of the cal- culus , a character of generality and coherence which they ...
... direct use . Its real essential adaptation is to enlarge to the utmost our power of deduction . The study of exten- sion and motion acquires , by the introduction of the cal- culus , a character of generality and coherence which they ...
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... direct all objective intellectual cultivation . The theory of vegetable life is the natural transition from matter to life . " Comte has some other observations on this subject in his " Positive Polity , " which we cannot do better than ...
... direct all objective intellectual cultivation . The theory of vegetable life is the natural transition from matter to life . " Comte has some other observations on this subject in his " Positive Polity , " which we cannot do better than ...
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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.