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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... equally valuable ? Are all equally useful ? Surely not ! Is there no test of their worth , of their utility in a broad sense ? Are there not thousands , it may be millions , of facts the knowledge of which would be useless to man ? What ...
... equally valuable ? Are all equally useful ? Surely not ! Is there no test of their worth , of their utility in a broad sense ? Are there not thousands , it may be millions , of facts the knowledge of which would be useless to man ? What ...
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... equally true in the concrete . There is nothing true abstractly which is not true also concretely . Abstractions are only ideals of concretes , and depend upon their reality for their truth . What is true of science is equally true of ...
... equally true in the concrete . There is nothing true abstractly which is not true also concretely . Abstractions are only ideals of concretes , and depend upon their reality for their truth . What is true of science is equally true of ...
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... equally valuable for aught we could tell , and all speculation equally fruitful of results . We should decline to the absolute point of view , had we no standard of worth . The dogma of Humanity unifies our conceptions , and gives us ...
... equally valuable for aught we could tell , and all speculation equally fruitful of results . We should decline to the absolute point of view , had we no standard of worth . The dogma of Humanity unifies our conceptions , and gives us ...
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... equally applicable to all man's conceptions . Still , the prin- ciple had not received its full systematic value . Positivism gave it that by connecting it with the general law , which , in all vital phenomena , considers every organism ...
... equally applicable to all man's conceptions . Still , the prin- ciple had not received its full systematic value . Positivism gave it that by connecting it with the general law , which , in all vital phenomena , considers every organism ...
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... equally to all minds . We speak of civilisation as having passed through the nomade , pastoral , hunting , agricultural , and other stages , and quite correctly . It is no objection to the truthfulness of these descriptions to urge that ...
... equally to all minds . We speak of civilisation as having passed through the nomade , pastoral , hunting , agricultural , and other stages , and quite correctly . It is no objection to the truthfulness of these descriptions to urge that ...
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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.