Physical Metempiric

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Williams & Norgate, 1883 - 311 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 299 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Σελίδα 294 - ... the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action, though much with the worth of the agent.
Σελίδα 294 - He who saves a fellow-creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty, or the hope of being paid for his trouble : he who betrays the friend that trusts him is guilty of a crime, even if his object be to serve another friend to whom he is under greater obligations.
Σελίδα 281 - Woe unto you. scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Σελίδα 312 - Broken Lights. An Inquiry into the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Religious Faith.
Σελίδα 26 - ... should be able to perceive it. I should be able to perceive your mind and to measure it, but I cannot ; I have absolutely no means of perceiving your mind. I judge by analogy that it exists, and the instinct which leads me to come to that conclusion is the social instinct, as it has been formed in me by generations during which men have lived together ; and they could not have lived together unless they had gone upon that supposition.
Σελίδα 278 - We have now seen that actions are regarded by savages, and were probably so regarded by primeval man, as good or bad, solely as they obviously affect the welfare of the tribe, — not that of the species, nor that of an individual member of the tribe.
Σελίδα 225 - ... as having the nature called material as opposed to that called spiritual. While, however, it thus seems an imaginable possibility that units of external Force may be identical in nature with units of the force known as Feeling, yet we" cannot by so representing them get any nearer to a comprehension of external Force.

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