The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte

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Maclehose, 1885 - Всего страниц: 249

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Стр. 194 - Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Стр. 232 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Стр. 190 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Стр. 59 - Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure, but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Стр. 190 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness : And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
Стр. 180 - That all perfection consists in unity, he apparently considers to be a maxim which no sane man thinks of questioning. It never seems to enter into his conceptions that any one could object ab initio, and ask, why this universal systematizing, systematizing, systematizing? Why is it necessary that all human life should point but to one object, and be cultivated into a system of means to a single end...
Стр. 132 - Unless above himself he can Exalt himself, how mean a thing is man. But I cannot forget that many an old Greek poet or sage, and many a sixteenth and seventeenth century one, would have interpreted the monkey's heroism from quite a different point of view ; and would have said that the poor little creature had been visited suddenly by some
Стр. 105 - But it does not serve to convey the yet more important fact, that the divisions and subdivisions thus arising do not remain separate, but now and again re-unite in direct and indirect ways. They inosculate: they severally send off and receive connecting growths; and the intercommunion has been ever becoming more frequent, more intricate, more widely ramified.
Стр. 158 - Comte would substitute the worship of Humanity, " the real author of the benefits for which thanks were formerly given to God.

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