The Unity of NatureA. Strahan, 1884 - Broj stranica: 571 |
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absolute action adapted adjustment agencies analogies Anthropomorphism anthropopsychic Apparatus appear Atoms Australasia Balfour Stewart birds body Causation cause ception cerned character Chemical Affinity chemical combination Chemistry Civilisation conceive conception connection conscious consists constitution creatures definite Descartes distinction ditions doctrine effect elementary elements energy essential ether existence external facts faculties Fuegians function harmony Heat Hibbert Lectures higher highest idea infinite Inorganic insect Instinct Intelligence intuitive invisible involved kind knowledge language law of thought Light living lower animals luminiferous ether machine material Matter Max Müller means mechanical medium ment mental motion movements mystery operations Organic origin oxygen perception phenomena Physical Forces produce Protoplasm purely question race Reason recognise reflex action regard relation Religion result savage seen sensation separate structure substance System things thought tion true truth ultimate uncon Unity of Nature universal vibrations whilst whole wholly wonderful word worship
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Stranica 342 - As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbour as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
Stranica 405 - Whilst beholding these savages, one asks, Whence have they come? What could have tempted, or what change compelled a tribe of men to leave the fine regions of the north, to travel down the Cordillera or backbone of America, to invent and build canoes, which are not used by the tribes of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, and then to enter on one of the most inhospitable countries within the limits of the globe...
Stranica 377 - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed Who loved, who suffered countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or sealed within the iron hills ? No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, , Were mellow music matched with him.
Stranica 275 - Bruno, rejects the notion of creative power acting after human fashion, it certainly is not because he is unacquainted with the numberless exquisite adaptations on which this notion of a supernatural artificer has been founded.
Stranica 213 - Karnac. No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the molecule is incapable of growth or decay, of generation or destruction. None of...
Stranica 476 - 'that there are nations or tribes which possess no religion rests either on inaccurate observations, or on a confusion of ideas. No tribe or nation has yet been met with destitute of belief in any higher beings, and travellers who asserted their existence have been afterwards refuted by facts. It is legitimate, therefore, to call religion, in its most general sense, an universal phenomenon of humanity V 1 'Outlines/ p.
Stranica 367 - But in America their condition is so peculiarly grievous, and their depression so complete, that servitude is a name too mild to describe their wretched state. A wife, among most tribes, is no better than a beast of burden, destined to every office of labour and fatigue.
Stranica 90 - His benediction (v. 20-23). 6. Pursuing this regular progression from the lower to the higher, from the simple to the complex, the text now gives us the work of the sixth " day," which supplies the land-population, air and water having been already supplied (pp.
Stranica 34 - ... different kinds of work, we may be sure that this difference is the most real and the most important truth respecting them. The new aspects in which we see their likeness are less full and less adequate than the old familiar aspects in which we regard them as dissimilar. But the mind is apt to be enamored of a new conception of this kind, and to mistake its place and its relative importance in the sphere of knowledge. It is in this way, and in this way only, that we can account for the tendency...
Stranica vi - What has to be done, in the first place, is to establish some method of inquiry, and to find some secure avenue of approach. Before dealing with any part of the Theology which is peculiarly Christian, we must trace the connection between the Reign of Law and the ideas which are fundamental to all religions. It is to this preliminary work that the following chapters have been devoted. Modern Doubt has called in question not only the whole subject of inquiry, but the whole faculties by which it can...