The Twentieth Century, Volume 4Nineteenth Century and After, 1878 - English periodicals |
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... human mind . Chief among these objections was the assertion that evolution could give no satisfactory account of the origin of morality and the genesis of conscience . Many persons , religious thinkers especially , among whom Mr ...
... human mind . Chief among these objections was the assertion that evolution could give no satisfactory account of the origin of morality and the genesis of conscience . Many persons , religious thinkers especially , among whom Mr ...
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... human being who was not as much fur- nished with a conscience as any of his successors . True , the primeval conscience had not begun to construct moral rules any more than the primeval eye had formed theories of light and form ; but ...
... human being who was not as much fur- nished with a conscience as any of his successors . True , the primeval conscience had not begun to construct moral rules any more than the primeval eye had formed theories of light and form ; but ...
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... human being no less than of the last . Again , it is intuitional in the sense that it has a direct necessary and immediate perception of an external something , named rightness , with which it is correlated . Man , by virtue of his ...
... human being no less than of the last . Again , it is intuitional in the sense that it has a direct necessary and immediate perception of an external something , named rightness , with which it is correlated . Man , by virtue of his ...
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... human life , before men entered into social relations , we can plainly discern that aspect of conscience which we have described by the word ' instantaneous , ' and which has seemed to so many minds independent of , and prior to , any ...
... human life , before men entered into social relations , we can plainly discern that aspect of conscience which we have described by the word ' instantaneous , ' and which has seemed to so many minds independent of , and prior to , any ...
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... human life and happiness . And all the while the conscience plays its part in this upward progress by transferring to any recognised reasonable rightness ( alas ! also to a thousand wrongs , which , yet true to its innate origin , the ...
... human life and happiness . And all the while the conscience plays its part in this upward progress by transferring to any recognised reasonable rightness ( alas ! also to a thousand wrongs , which , yet true to its innate origin , the ...
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Page 183 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 167 - Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave...
Page 132 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 12 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 451 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Page 537 - Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; And mine age is as nothing before thee : Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : Surely they are disquieted in vain : He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for ? My hope is in thee.
Page 131 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 105 - Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known to us ; to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal...
Page 136 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 807 - Would want some other father ; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes ; Design implies intelligence, and art ; That can't be from themselves — or man ; that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow ? And nothing greater yet allow'd than man.