Modern Civilisation in Relation to Christianity: A Series of EssaysWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1864 - 128 sider |
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... interest with the British Association for the Advancement of Physical Science itself . This sudden development of a great branch of inquiry is remark- able . In itself very remarkable , but still more so in the main cause to which it is ...
... interest with the British Association for the Advancement of Physical Science itself . This sudden development of a great branch of inquiry is remark- able . In itself very remarkable , but still more so in the main cause to which it is ...
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... interest all ; and because they cover the whole ( practical ) domain of human activity . II . THEORY - BUCKLE . THE question - To what do we owe our Modern Civilization - what is its initial force and moving spring ? —is not a mere ...
... interest all ; and because they cover the whole ( practical ) domain of human activity . II . THEORY - BUCKLE . THE question - To what do we owe our Modern Civilization - what is its initial force and moving spring ? —is not a mere ...
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... interest of every individual as nearly as possible in harmony with the interest of the whole . " Has Mr Mill inquired at all whether " laws and social arrangements " can ever effect a revolution so fundamental as this - whether it would ...
... interest of every individual as nearly as possible in harmony with the interest of the whole . " Has Mr Mill inquired at all whether " laws and social arrangements " can ever effect a revolution so fundamental as this - whether it would ...
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... interest in contrast , as they have often been found in violent conflict in Life and in History . According to the Utili- tarian theory , however , Virtue and Interest are one ; not , in the long run , or ultimately only , but , now ...
... interest in contrast , as they have often been found in violent conflict in Life and in History . According to the Utili- tarian theory , however , Virtue and Interest are one ; not , in the long run , or ultimately only , but , now ...
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... interest - that is , conducive to our happiness - to do so , and then cleave to it disinterestedly , when our faith has become a realisation . So prosper all attempts to degrade virtue into a matter of computation , and substitute ...
... interest - that is , conducive to our happiness - to do so , and then cleave to it disinterestedly , when our faith has become a realisation . So prosper all attempts to degrade virtue into a matter of computation , and substitute ...
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Side 11 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Side 4 - The Geology of Pennsylvania. A Government survey, with a general view of the Geology of the United States, Essays on the Coal Formation and its Fossils, and a description of the Coal Fields of North America and Great Britain.
Side 7 - RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA In the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq.
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Side 128 - PEOPLE'S EDITION, 31s. 6d. Life of John Duke of Marlborough. With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the Succession.
Side 128 - Burton.— The History of Scotland, from the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection (1689—1748).
Side 81 - WHO loves not Knowledge ? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper ! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail. But on her forehead sits a fire : She sets her forward countenance And leaps into the future chance, Submitting all things to desire.
Side 128 - KINGLAKE'S CRIMEAN WAR. The Invasion of the Crimea : its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan.
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Side 7 - HAMILTON. Lectures on Metaphysics. By Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Bart. , Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev. HL MANSEL, BD, LL.D., Dean of St Paul's ; and JOHN VEITCH, MA, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, Glasgow.