American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and BeyondH. Holt, 1915 - 373 Seiten |
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absolute Agassiz agnosticism American animal animal magnetism appearance Asa Gray atheism belief Berkeley called Calvinism cause century Christian colonial Colonial Colleges common sense conception consciousness cosmic creation creator Darwin declared deism deist deistic deity Dewey divine doctrine Edwards Emerson empiricism ence England England transcendentalism English eternal evolution existence experience explain facts Franklin free-thinking French German human idealism idealist ideas immanent infidelity infinite influence intellectual intelligence James Jefferson Jonathan Edwards Joseph Priestley Kant knowledge light logical material materialists matter means ment mental metaphysics method mind monism moral movement mystic natural selection notion objects organic original pantheism perfect Philadelphia philosophy physical Plato political practical pragmatism Princeton principle Puritanism rational realism reality reason religion Royce skepticism soul special creation species speculative spirit theory things thinkers thinking Thomas Paine thought tion transcendentalism transcendentalist true truth universe Witherspoon Yale
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Seite 12 - ... in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water and all nature ; which used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for...
Seite 266 - Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.
Seite 133 - It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena, as of heat, water, azote, but to lead us to regard Nature as a phenomenon, not a substance , to attribute necessary existence to spirit — to esteem Nature as an accident and an effect.
Seite 11 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Seite 147 - It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call sun and moon, man and woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament...
Seite 49 - I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man ; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter. These I esteemed the essentials of every religion; and being to be found in all the religions we had in our country, I respected them all, tho...
Seite 48 - My parents had early given me religious impressions, and brought me through my childhood piously in the dissenting way.
Seite 50 - Worlds forever moving round him, then this little Ball on which we move, seems, even in my narrow Imagination, to be almost Nothing, and myself less than nothing, and of no sort of Consequence. When...
Seite 299 - The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at definite instants of our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one.
Seite 9 - When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of His mildness and gentleness. There are also many things wherein we may behold His awful majesty; in the sun in his strength, in comets, in thunder, in the hovering thunder-clouds, in ragged rocks and the brows of mountains.