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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... wants of all devout minds . Positivism is organic , for it satisfies the requirements of philosophers and fulfils the aspirations of mystics . Need it be added that , being so capacious , it can satisfy also the needs of all those ...
... wants of all devout minds . Positivism is organic , for it satisfies the requirements of philosophers and fulfils the aspirations of mystics . Need it be added that , being so capacious , it can satisfy also the needs of all those ...
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... wants , individual and collective ; while it sanctions and enforces a moral discipline , the need of which man constantly feels . After claiming so much , it will not astonish you to hear that Positivism is Useful . That is its chief ...
... wants , individual and collective ; while it sanctions and enforces a moral discipline , the need of which man constantly feels . After claiming so much , it will not astonish you to hear that Positivism is Useful . That is its chief ...
Side 9
... want them , and can , indeed , do better without them . Her task is to explain , not invent ; her sphere is the knowable , not the unknowable . She does not want to complicate the problem which is already so difficult to solve . Besides ...
... want them , and can , indeed , do better without them . Her task is to explain , not invent ; her sphere is the knowable , not the unknowable . She does not want to complicate the problem which is already so difficult to solve . Besides ...
Side 19
... wants of men must be met . But the success attained was widely different in the two cases . Physical laws are , in reality , independent of moral laws . Within the province , then , of physical laws men could arrive at isolated ...
... wants of men must be met . But the success attained was widely different in the two cases . Physical laws are , in reality , independent of moral laws . Within the province , then , of physical laws men could arrive at isolated ...
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... wants . They give us the standard of precision desirable for our theoretical previsions . Within this necessary limit there is generally left for our intellect a certain degree of liberty in speculation . This liberty it should use to ...
... wants . They give us the standard of precision desirable for our theoretical previsions . Within this necessary limit there is generally left for our intellect a certain degree of liberty in speculation . This liberty it should use to ...
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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.