The System of Nature, Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World, Niteet 1–2G.W. & A.J. Matsell, 1835 - 368 sivua |
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Sivu 13
... fellow men that they represented the Divinity erend , would endeavour to persuade their his misplaced worship . Thus has on earth ! + Des misérables . happiness : the end of all government | activity ; OF NATURE . 13.
... fellow men that they represented the Divinity erend , would endeavour to persuade their his misplaced worship . Thus has on earth ! + Des misérables . happiness : the end of all government | activity ; OF NATURE . 13.
Sivu 14
... miserable . Thus man , most advantageous changes are propos- intended by Nature for the full enjoy - ed to him , or the most probable attempts ment of freedom , to patiently investi- gate her laws , to search into her secrets , to ...
... miserable . Thus man , most advantageous changes are propos- intended by Nature for the full enjoy - ed to him , or the most probable attempts ment of freedom , to patiently investi- gate her laws , to search into her secrets , to ...
Sivu 69
... miserable , virtuous or vicious , estimable or hateful . It is thus he becomes either contented or discontented with his destiny , accord- ing to the objects towards which they have directed his passions , and bent the energies of his ...
... miserable , virtuous or vicious , estimable or hateful . It is thus he becomes either contented or discontented with his destiny , accord- ing to the objects towards which they have directed his passions , and bent the energies of his ...
Sivu 72
... miserable . will enable him to obtain without doing injury to his fellow man . Let the vain project of destroying passions from the heart of man be abandoned ; let an effort be made to direct them towards objects that may be useful to ...
... miserable . will enable him to obtain without doing injury to his fellow man . Let the vain project of destroying passions from the heart of man be abandoned ; let an effort be made to direct them towards objects that may be useful to ...
Sivu 73
... miserable ? In short , is it an uncommon spectacle to behold crime frequently justified , or crowned with success , insolently triumphing over that merit which it disdains , over that virtue which it outrages ? Well , then , in ...
... miserable ? In short , is it an uncommon spectacle to behold crime frequently justified , or crowned with success , insolently triumphing over that merit which it disdains , over that virtue which it outrages ? Well , then , in ...
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Sivu 128 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Sivu 128 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Sivu vii - Exegi monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Sivu 218 - There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
Sivu 214 - ... wiser; which would again involve a contradiction. The theologians fearing, without doubt, to restrain the liberty of the Divinity, have supposed it was necessary that he should not be bound by his own laws, in which they have shewn somewhat more ignorance of their subject than they imagined. 10th, "The self-existent Being, the supreme Cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power.
Sivu 94 - It is said: that in consequence of an idea to which the mind gives birth, man acts freely if he encounters no obstacle. But the question is, what gives birth to this idea in his brain? was he the master either to prevent it from presenting itself, or from renewing itself in his brain? Does not this idea depend either upon objects that strike him exteriorly and in despite of himself, or upon causes, that without his knowledge, act within himself and modify his brain? Can he prevent his eyes, cast...
Sivu 88 - The motives that determine the voluptuary and the debauchee to risk their health, are as powerful, and their actions are as necessary, as those which decide the wise man to manage his. But, it will be insisted, the debauchee may be prevailed on to change his conduct: this does not imply that he is a free agent; but that motives may be found sufficiently powerful to annihilate the effect of those that previously acted upon him; then these new motives determine his will to the new mode of conduct he...
Sivu 215 - must of necessity be a being of infinite goodness, justice, and truth, and all other moral perfections, such as become the supreme governor and judge of the •world.
Sivu 95 - ... to act freely. When it is said, that man is not a free agent, it is not pretended to compare him to a body moved by a simple impulsive cause: he contains within himself causes inherent to his existence; he is moved by an interior organ, which has its own peculiar laws, and is itself necessarily determined in consequence of ideas formed from perceptions resulting from sensations which it receives from exterior objects.
Sivu viii - ... notwithstanding the reiterated checks his ambitious folly experiences, he still attempts the impossible, strives to carry his researches beyond the visible world, and hunts out misery in imaginary regions. He would be a metaphysician before he has become a practical philosopher. He quits the contemplation of realities to meditate on chimeras. He neglects experience, to feed on conjecture, to indulge in hypothesis. He dares not cultivate his reason, because from his earliest days he has been taught...