Modern HumanistsSwan Sonnenschein, 1891 - 275 pages |
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... civilisation ? Carlyle , we are told , was only using a metaphor when he bracketed or opposed God and Devil in discussing current conduct ; but even as a metaphor his Devil is meaningless if he really held the Pantheism he professed ...
... civilisation ? Carlyle , we are told , was only using a metaphor when he bracketed or opposed God and Devil in discussing current conduct ; but even as a metaphor his Devil is meaningless if he really held the Pantheism he professed ...
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... civilisation was sure to prosper all round under a reign of blind industrial competition — in that England Carlyle must have counted for something as mere thunder and lightning to clear the air . Things were not going right but wrong ...
... civilisation was sure to prosper all round under a reign of blind industrial competition — in that England Carlyle must have counted for something as mere thunder and lightning to clear the air . Things were not going right but wrong ...
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... civilisation . At such a time it is fitting that , in the act of scanning narrowly the counsels of all who offer guidance , we should deny none the credit of having at least seen that the road ahead lay among precipices and morasses ...
... civilisation . At such a time it is fitting that , in the act of scanning narrowly the counsels of all who offer guidance , we should deny none the credit of having at least seen that the road ahead lay among precipices and morasses ...
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... civilisation . Their ideals had become completely divergent ; and when the “ Liberty ” appeared , Carlyle pronounced it a compendious statement of all he held not to be true in political matters . On the other hand Carlyle certainly ...
... civilisation . Their ideals had become completely divergent ; and when the “ Liberty ” appeared , Carlyle pronounced it a compendious statement of all he held not to be true in political matters . On the other hand Carlyle certainly ...
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... , cited by Dr. Bain , p . 227 . Macaulay there said he considered universal suffrage incompatible with civilisation . ? Autobiography , p . 160 . hor James Mill laid down his general premiss of class selfishness John Stuart Mill . 93.
... , cited by Dr. Bain , p . 227 . Macaulay there said he considered universal suffrage incompatible with civilisation . ? Autobiography , p . 160 . hor James Mill laid down his general premiss of class selfishness John Stuart Mill . 93.
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Page 130 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Page 188 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 202 - AMONG the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious — certainly the least creditable — is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Page 126 - 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 175 - Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be...
Page 87 - I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it.
Page 146 - An army without weapons of precision, and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism of life.
Page 208 - ... a man ought to know any language or science he learns, thoroughly, while a woman ought to know the same language, or science, only so far as may enable her to sympathise in her husband's pleasures, and in those of his best friends.
Page 87 - The great advance in liberty of discussion, which. is one of the most important differences between the present time and that of my childhood, has greatly altered the moralities of this question ; and I think that few men of my father's intellect and public spirit, holding with such intensity of moral conviction as he did, unpopular opinions on religion, or on any other of the great subjects of thought...
Page 244 - ... a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.