A Century of RevolutionChapman and Hall, 1889 - 235 Seiten |
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... whole being penetrated by the anarchic teaching of Rousseau , is the prey of political agitators , who dazzle him with visions of Socialistic Utopias ; it is his passions , not his rational faculties , wherein liberty is rooted , that ...
... whole being penetrated by the anarchic teaching of Rousseau , is the prey of political agitators , who dazzle him with visions of Socialistic Utopias ; it is his passions , not his rational faculties , wherein liberty is rooted , that ...
Seite xvii
... whole universe is transfigured before us , and we catch some glimpse of its real meaning . The supreme law which rules through it , is a law of tendency upwards , of striving after perfection . This is the true law of evolution These ...
... whole universe is transfigured before us , and we catch some glimpse of its real meaning . The supreme law which rules through it , is a law of tendency upwards , of striving after perfection . This is the true law of evolution These ...
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... whole of man's existence , dominating every human being , from the king to the peasant . Of course ethical ideas existed in Europe long before Christianity subdued it . But Christianity wrought a momentous change in them . Pagan ...
... whole of man's existence , dominating every human being , from the king to the peasant . Of course ethical ideas existed in Europe long before Christianity subdued it . But Christianity wrought a momentous change in them . Pagan ...
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... whole freedom of man , consists either in spiritual or civil liberty . As for spiritual , who can be at rest , who can enjoy anything in this world with contentment , who hath not liberty to serve God and to save his own soul ? . The ...
... whole freedom of man , consists either in spiritual or civil liberty . As for spiritual , who can be at rest , who can enjoy anything in this world with contentment , who hath not liberty to serve God and to save his own soul ? . The ...
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... whole , implying all that may be gathered from Darwinism , and elsewhere , as natural and necessary in the organism . So much , in passing , to vindicate a great name from the misconception to which a popular and accomplished writer has ...
... whole , implying all that may be gathered from Darwinism , and elsewhere , as natural and necessary in the organism . So much , in passing , to vindicate a great name from the misconception to which a popular and accomplished writer has ...
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Seite 42 - When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.
Seite 201 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Seite 106 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world.
Seite 107 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of our existing marine Ascidians than any other known form.
Seite 179 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Seite 234 - BAYARD' : ° HISTORY OF THE GOOD CHEVALIER, SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE. Compiled by the LOYAL SERVITEUR; translated into English from the French of Loredan Larchey. With over aoo...
Seite 124 - The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion...
Seite 195 - ... a social support, a point d'appui, for individual resistance to the tendencies of the ruling power ; a protection, a rallying point, for opinions and interests which the ascendant public opinion views with disfavour.
Seite 21 - WORSAAE (JJA)— INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF DENMARK, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.
Seite 70 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.