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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... simple and compre- hensive one . It is a philosophy and a polity , and the aim of both is to discipline the mind , and to regulate the life- nothing less than this . It sets the highest value upon that knowledge which enables a man to ...
... simple and compre- hensive one . It is a philosophy and a polity , and the aim of both is to discipline the mind , and to regulate the life- nothing less than this . It sets the highest value upon that knowledge which enables a man to ...
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... simple mode of viewing the world , until at last he almost sees a new world to that seen by primæval man . For the world which is about us is not the same world our first ancestors saw . It has undergone revolutions so many and so great ...
... simple mode of viewing the world , until at last he almost sees a new world to that seen by primæval man . For the world which is about us is not the same world our first ancestors saw . It has undergone revolutions so many and so great ...
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... simple , but complicated with motion ; physics with the problems of astronomy and mathematics , complicated with those peculiar to it of weights , velocities , etc. Chemistry , which treats of composition , decomposition , and re ...
... simple , but complicated with motion ; physics with the problems of astronomy and mathematics , complicated with those peculiar to it of weights , velocities , etc. Chemistry , which treats of composition , decomposition , and re ...
Side 53
... simple though they be . But , as you find them everywhere , they were open to discovery in more accessible cases . We had but to put aside by a series of unconscious abstractions the other attributes of matter which complicated the ...
... simple though they be . But , as you find them everywhere , they were open to discovery in more accessible cases . We had but to put aside by a series of unconscious abstractions the other attributes of matter which complicated the ...
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... simple speculations in number long before they begin to think on the attributes of space . Comte goes on to say that " the Greeks , forward as they were in geometry , never could master even the outline of mechanics , except for some ...
... simple speculations in number long before they begin to think on the attributes of space . Comte goes on to say that " the Greeks , forward as they were in geometry , never could master even the outline of mechanics , except for some ...
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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.