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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... thought they should be collected and published in a tolerably cheap form for general circu- lation . Such is my object in republishing them , and no other . Positivists do not receive payment for such things . They feel with the Apostle ...
... thought they should be collected and published in a tolerably cheap form for general circu- lation . Such is my object in republishing them , and no other . Positivists do not receive payment for such things . They feel with the Apostle ...
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... thought and life elaborated by human ingenuity which are of no use . They will not work . They have been tried , but there is no go in them . They have a certain attractiveness - some of them - as Utopias ; but the attractiveness of ...
... thought and life elaborated by human ingenuity which are of no use . They will not work . They have been tried , but there is no go in them . They have a certain attractiveness - some of them - as Utopias ; but the attractiveness of ...
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... thought and action . The problem of Positivism is to find what knowledge is of most worth , and its work is tested by its theoretical and practical use . For example , meteorological laws , if they can be ascertained , will be of ...
... thought and action . The problem of Positivism is to find what knowledge is of most worth , and its work is tested by its theoretical and practical use . For example , meteorological laws , if they can be ascertained , will be of ...
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... thoughts , and form all conception ; that is , two factors are to be found in all knowledge - the objective and the subjective , the objective facts being interpreted subjectively . Man makes of cosmic phenomena a Subjective Synthesis ...
... thoughts , and form all conception ; that is , two factors are to be found in all knowledge - the objective and the subjective , the objective facts being interpreted subjectively . Man makes of cosmic phenomena a Subjective Synthesis ...
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... thoughts , as well as all our aspirations ? But , it may be said , what is Humanity ? Is it aught but a figment of the brain ? And in what way , if she be a real being , do we owe her gratitude and praise ? Why should she , in fine , be ...
... thoughts , as well as all our aspirations ? But , it may be said , what is Humanity ? Is it aught but a figment of the brain ? And in what way , if she be a real being , do we owe her gratitude and praise ? Why should she , in fine , be ...
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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.