Freedom of the Mind in HistoryMacmillan, 1923 - 297 strán (strany) |
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... mechanics , or chemistry , or tropisms . All such may help us to understand the pit from which we have been digged , and by God's grace have striven to dig ourselves . But they do not reach the heights on which we try to stand , nor our ...
... mechanics , or chemistry , or tropisms . All such may help us to understand the pit from which we have been digged , and by God's grace have striven to dig ourselves . But they do not reach the heights on which we try to stand , nor our ...
Strana 163
... mechanics , and ethics : I mean the highest and most perfect ethics , which , presupposing a complete knowledge of all the other sciences , is the final stage of wisdom . Yet , as one does not cull the fruit either from the roots or ...
... mechanics , and ethics : I mean the highest and most perfect ethics , which , presupposing a complete knowledge of all the other sciences , is the final stage of wisdom . Yet , as one does not cull the fruit either from the roots or ...
Strana 180
... mechanics of motion . If a System- atic Constitution , by the inherent consequence of its perishableness through great periods brings even the very smallest part nigh to the state of disorder , there must be a moment at which this ...
... mechanics of motion . If a System- atic Constitution , by the inherent consequence of its perishableness through great periods brings even the very smallest part nigh to the state of disorder , there must be a moment at which this ...
Strana 195
... mechanics of familiar things . They were geometricians . With them geometry became a chosen province of the mind and a source of rational and constraining principles applying to the movements of the heavens and to all things on the ...
... mechanics of familiar things . They were geometricians . With them geometry became a chosen province of the mind and a source of rational and constraining principles applying to the movements of the heavens and to all things on the ...
Strana 199
... mechanics , since the close of the last century , have been passing through a revolution of their own : and the end is not in sight . A multitude of novel facts have come to light , which so far have not been ordered in certain and ...
... mechanics , since the close of the last century , have been passing through a revolution of their own : and the end is not in sight . A multitude of novel facts have come to light , which so far have not been ordered in certain and ...
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Strana 124 - And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given unto them ; that they may be one, even as We are one ; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected into one ; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and lovcdst them, even as Thou luvedst Me.
Strana 89 - While there are no stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow, or joy, the mind may be said to be in the state of EQUILIBRIUM. When those feelings have been stirred, and they act in their due degree, there ensues what may be called the state of Harmony.
Strana 169 - A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being: as it perceives ideas, it is called the understanding, and as it produces or otherwise operates about them, it is called the will.
Strana 171 - As to those impressions, which arise from the senses, their ultimate cause is, in my opinion, perfectly inexplicable by human reason, and 'twill always be impossible to decide with certainty, whether they arise immediately from the object, or are produc'd by the creative power of the mind, or are deriv'd from the author of our being.
Strana 90 - At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. "At thirty, I stood firm. "At forty, I had no doubts. "At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. "At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. "At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right.
Strana 124 - And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
Strana 207 - ... we may picture to our mind a motion as uniformly and continuously accelerated when, during any equal intervals of time whatever, equal increments of speed are given to it.
Strana 247 - But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, what is common to many thinking beings, and could be common to all ; this common part, we shall see, can only be the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.
Strana 167 - And the manner wherein they signify, and mark unto us the objects which are at a distance, is the same with that of languages and signs of human appointment, which do not suggest the things signified, by any likeness or identity of nature, but only by an habitual connexion, that experience has made us to observe between them.
Strana 164 - SINCE the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate ; it is evident, that our knowledge is only conversant about them.