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... morality - Greek worship of human nature - Matriopathy of ancient philosophers - Rationalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - Degradation of human nature by religious doctrines - Influence of these con- ceptions on actual ...
... morality - Greek worship of human nature - Matriopathy of ancient philosophers - Rationalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - Degradation of human nature by religious doctrines - Influence of these con- ceptions on actual ...
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... a scheme of progress and morality - The instincts of life and of natural death - Application to real life of the doctrines set forth in this book 285 ILLUSTRATIONS Photograph of Elie Metchnikoff Figs . 1. Catasetum saccatum xvi CONTENTS.
... a scheme of progress and morality - The instincts of life and of natural death - Application to real life of the doctrines set forth in this book 285 ILLUSTRATIONS Photograph of Elie Metchnikoff Figs . 1. Catasetum saccatum xvi CONTENTS.
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... morality - Greek worship of human nature - Matriopathy of ancient philosophers-- Rationalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- Degradation of human nature by religious doctrines- Influence of these conceptions on actual life ...
... morality - Greek worship of human nature - Matriopathy of ancient philosophers-- Rationalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- Degradation of human nature by religious doctrines- Influence of these conceptions on actual life ...
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... morality . In the ancient world and , above all , among the Greeks , human nature was held in high esteem . The Oriental races , predecessors of the Greeks in civilisation , generally represented their gods as fantastic or grotesque ...
... morality . In the ancient world and , above all , among the Greeks , human nature was held in high esteem . The Oriental races , predecessors of the Greeks in civilisation , generally represented their gods as fantastic or grotesque ...
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... morality . This doctrine was held by many philosophers , but these applied it to the details of actual life in very different fashions . Thus , for the Stoics , the summum bonum and happiness , the most lofty aim , could not be found ...
... morality . This doctrine was held by many philosophers , but these applied it to the details of actual life in very different fashions . Thus , for the Stoics , the summum bonum and happiness , the most lofty aim , could not be found ...
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Page 291 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 161 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 291 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 160 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 278 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 289 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 175 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 82 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 224 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.