The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic PhilosophyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - 309 pages |
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... men - Absence of harmony between the love of life and the conditions of human existence -- The part played by the fear of death in religions and systems of philosophy 113 PART II ATTEMPTS TO DIMINISH THE ILLS ARISING FROM THE CONTENTS xiii.
... men - Absence of harmony between the love of life and the conditions of human existence -- The part played by the fear of death in religions and systems of philosophy 113 PART II ATTEMPTS TO DIMINISH THE ILLS ARISING FROM THE CONTENTS xiii.
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... existence - Difficulties in the way of scientific investigation of the problem , What is progress ? — Difficulty of including the whole human rate in a scheme of progress and morality - The instincts of life and of natural death ...
... existence - Difficulties in the way of scientific investigation of the problem , What is progress ? — Difficulty of including the whole human rate in a scheme of progress and morality - The instincts of life and of natural death ...
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... existence of man ; they have held that that problem was insoluble for the human mind . Such a depressing conclusion has been formulated in spite of many attempts to reach a rational conception of the universe and of man . It is no new ...
... existence of man ; they have held that that problem was insoluble for the human mind . Such a depressing conclusion has been formulated in spite of many attempts to reach a rational conception of the universe and of man . It is no new ...
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... existence , came to the conclusion that morality should be adjusted so as to make life as full and complete as possible . As a criterion of physical perfection , the English philosopher would accept only the complete devotion of all the ...
... existence , came to the conclusion that morality should be adjusted so as to make life as full and complete as possible . As a criterion of physical perfection , the English philosopher would accept only the complete devotion of all the ...
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... existence is , as we have seen , so widespread that there is good reason for an inquiry as to the existence of some general principle underlying this diversity of opinion regarding human nature . I have already shown that this question ...
... existence is , as we have seen , so widespread that there is good reason for an inquiry as to the existence of some general principle underlying this diversity of opinion regarding human nature . I have already shown that this question ...
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Page 293 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 163 - 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 293 - ... 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 162 - 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 280 - 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 291 - 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 177 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 84 - 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 226 - 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.