Civilization & Progress: Being the Outlines of a New System of Political, Religious, and Social PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1885 - 453 páginas |
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Página 90 - The inductive method has been practised ever since the beginning of the world by every human being. It is constantly practised by the most ignorant clown, by the most thoughtless schoolboy, by the very child at the breast.
Página 207 - Spencer, the most inexorable of realists, admits this when he says that, 'if knowledge cannot monopolise consciousness, if it must always continue possible for the mind to •dwell upon that which transcends knowledge, then there can •never cease to be a place for something of the nature of Religion ; since Religion, under all its forms, is distinguished from every thing else in this, that its subject-matter is that which passes the sphere of experience.
Página 385 - ... the great Law of Evolution whereby all things that exist must pass from the simple to the multiform, from the incoherent to the coherent, from the indefinite to the definite ; the law which, while determining not only that the egg with its simple uniform composition shall gradually unfold itself into the chick with its complex, coherent and definite system of functions and organs ; that the worm ' striving to be man shall mount through all the spires of...
Página 181 - ... associated with wisdom. Yet in the scenes of the play his seriousness is not treated with much respect, and his wisdom by no means gives him the victory when he has to encounter much more unpretentious personages. Interpretation must find some view of him which will be consistent with all this ; and we get a hint as to the direction in which we are to look for such a view in the play itself, where the Duke, in answer to Jaques...
Página 124 - ... in our own persons of the attributes which we admire in Him, we are dear to Him, a consciousness on the contrary that we are far from partaking them, a consequent insight into our guilt and misery, an eager hope of reconciliation to Him, a desire to know and to love Him, and a sensitive looking-out in all that happens, whether in the course of nature or of human life, for tokens, if such there be, of His bestowing on us what we so greatly need.
Página 208 - What is this world around to me, what am /, this conscious speck, to the world around?" — if this is the groundwork of all Religion, it is but the groundwork. The substance and crown of Religion is to answer the question, "What is my duty in the world, my duty to my fellowbeings, my duty to the world and all that is in it or of it?
Página 448 - ... or shall hereafter write, in private life or in public as a statesman, any document of a political description, and imagines it has in it certainty and clearness in a high degree, then that is a disgrace to the writer, whether anybody says it is or not. Verily, awake or dreaming, to be ignorant of what is right and what is wrong, of what is good and what is bad, cannot escape from being blameful, not even if the entire mob were to applaud it. PHAEDRUS. No indeed. SOCRATES. But take the man who...
Página 143 - Feudalism would be here to-day, and the serf would be still bound to the soil, so far as what is called duty is concerned. The castes of the East, with their degrading views of human life and human dignity, would lie and stagnate to all eternity, undisturbed by duty. Despotism, the divine right of kings, and all the out-worn rubbish of other days, were still with us, for all that mere duty would have to say against them. Would the slave have been free to-day had he merely asked what his duty in life...
Página 139 - ... order of society to the elevation and expansion of the individual. The one would make each man a mere cog or wheel in the vast organized mechanism of society, the other would make him conversant with the highest his nature is capable of, and would make room for him to expand to the utmost limit of his being. Accordingly, the watchword of the one is Order, of the other, Progress ; of the one, Despotism (more or less disguised perhaps) ; of the other, Liberty. The one would tighten the bonds that...
Página 385 - Evolution whereby all things that exist must pass from the simple to the multiform, from the incoherent to the coherent, from the indefinite to the definite ; the law which while determining not only that the egg with its simple uniform composition shall gradually unfold itself into the chick with its complex coherent and definite system of functions and organs ; that the worm, striving to be man, shall mount through all the spires of form ; determines also that human society itself, which starts...