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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... merely elementary that they will convey no new knowledge whatever to Positivists ; but they may be none the less acceptable to that larger class who know little or nothing of Positivism , but are ready to give a respectful hearing to ...
... merely elementary that they will convey no new knowledge whatever to Positivists ; but they may be none the less acceptable to that larger class who know little or nothing of Positivism , but are ready to give a respectful hearing to ...
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... mere negation , and treating it as if it were the abstraction of concretes . Generalisations of the knowable we can , by dint of study , comprehend ; why should we waste time and talents which may be precious to others upon that which ...
... mere negation , and treating it as if it were the abstraction of concretes . Generalisations of the knowable we can , by dint of study , comprehend ; why should we waste time and talents which may be precious to others upon that which ...
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... mere fact - collectors , called " men of science , " with the din of whose achievements in fact - collecting some of us are very weary . They will insist that a social purpose shall dominate all studies , so as to render them human and ...
... mere fact - collectors , called " men of science , " with the din of whose achievements in fact - collecting some of us are very weary . They will insist that a social purpose shall dominate all studies , so as to render them human and ...
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... mere coincidence , but a relation between things . The belief in gods and the belief in kings flourish together and decay together . Many persons really regret , or affect to lament over , the decay of the old order ; they might as well ...
... mere coincidence , but a relation between things . The belief in gods and the belief in kings flourish together and decay together . Many persons really regret , or affect to lament over , the decay of the old order ; they might as well ...
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... mere catalogue of unrelated facts , nor even of related facts . Knowledge is the product of assimi- lated related facts . There are tens of thousands of facts which cannot be assimilated , and would be of little use if they could , so ...
... mere catalogue of unrelated facts , nor even of related facts . Knowledge is the product of assimi- lated related facts . There are tens of thousands of facts which cannot be assimilated , and would be of little use if they could , so ...
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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.