The Religion of NatureMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1906 - 187 sivua |
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acquired ancestors animal intelligence ants apparent cruelty appear argument automatically believe bodily body brain circumstances civilised clever common lodging-house conduct connections of ideas conscious personality conscious thought course creatures CRUELTY TO ANIMALS cuckoo Darwin David Hume Descartes difference dog's eggs emotions error evidence of conscious evolution exhibit experience express fact fear feel pain follow gregarious animal happiness or unhappiness higher animals horse human mind human point human reason hunting animal inherited injury insects instance instinctive habits intelligence kind knowledge leader living look Lord Avebury lower animals lowest means mental merely monkey moral natural instinct nerves nervous nursery pariah dogs point of view possess power of conscious question race realise reasoning power recognise rooks savage scientific sciousness sea-anemone seems self-conscious sense Sensitive Plant slaughter-house small birds struggle for existence suffering sundew suppose things tion truth unconscious wasp wild wild instinct words
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Sivu xi - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Sivu 192 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Sivu 150 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Sivu 186 - Nature must have provided some other principle, of more ready and more general use and application ; nor can an operation of such immense consequence in life as that of inferring effects from causes, be trusted to the uncertain process of reasoning and argumentation.
Sivu 166 - Manichaean's prayer. It was his faith, — perhaps is mine, — That life in all its forms is one, And that its secret conduits run Unseen, but in unbroken line, From the great fountain-head divine Through man and beast, through grain and grass.
Sivu 204 - O world, as God has made it ! All is beauty : And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Sivu 60 - We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pi'ty unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to dine with a friend, and finding it late, have bid the coachman make haste...
Sivu 186 - ... species of instinct or mechanical power, that acts in us unknown to ourselves, and in its chief operations is not directed by any such relations or comparison of ideas as are the proper objects of our intellectual faculties. " Though the instinct be different, yet still it is an instinct which teaches a man to avoid the fire, as much as that which teaches a bird, with such exactness, the art of incubation and the whole economy and order of its...
Sivu 185 - It seems evident, that animals, as well as men, learn many things from experience, and infer that the same events will always follow from the same causes. By this principle they become acquainted with the more obvious properties of external objects, and gradually, from their birth, treasure up a knowledge of the nature of fire, water, earth, stones, heights, depths, &c.