The North British Review, Volume 47W. P. Kennedy, 1867 |
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... given marks the relative worth of the respective principles , and the culmination of our nature in that one which is its proper end . It would be easy to show how all the moral systems have taken their character , from giving one or ...
... given marks the relative worth of the respective principles , and the culmination of our nature in that one which is its proper end . It would be easy to show how all the moral systems have taken their character , from giving one or ...
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... given marks the relative worth of the respective principles , and the culmination of our nature in that one which is its proper end . It would be easy to show how all the moral systems have taken their character , from giving one or ...
... given marks the relative worth of the respective principles , and the culmination of our nature in that one which is its proper end . It would be easy to show how all the moral systems have taken their character , from giving one or ...
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... given , the unity or rather the unifying power still remains ungrasped . And if we are to see character in its truth , we must , after analysis has done its work , by an act of philosophic imagination remake the synthesis , put the ...
... given , the unity or rather the unifying power still remains ungrasped . And if we are to see character in its truth , we must , after analysis has done its work , by an act of philosophic imagination remake the synthesis , put the ...
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... given us faculties to perceive what actions tend to produce this , and what actions tend to thwart it , He has given us therein a criterion by which to know what His will is , that is , what actions we ought to do , what to avoid . This ...
... given us faculties to perceive what actions tend to produce this , and what actions tend to thwart it , He has given us therein a criterion by which to know what His will is , that is , what actions we ought to do , what to avoid . This ...
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... given these to the world . Differing from the utilitarian view , in that he regards virtue as consisting in a perfect harmony of all the faculties and func- tions of man ; maintaining the existence of a moral sense , distinct altogether ...
... given these to the world . Differing from the utilitarian view , in that he regards virtue as consisting in a perfect harmony of all the faculties and func- tions of man ; maintaining the existence of a moral sense , distinct altogether ...
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Page 23 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them : and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Page 7 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their...
Page 267 - O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Page 267 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 261 - Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself" and the modern precept, "Study nature,
Page 282 - There will be a new church founded on moral science; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters; science for symbol and illustration ; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
Page 269 - A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man. does not. as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
Page 319 - So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 264 - Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.
Page 277 - The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages, and a measure of coal; a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud: vegetable forms appear; her first misshapen animals, zoophyte...