Life and the Conditions of Survival: The Physical Basis of Ethics, Sociology and ReligionC.H. Kerr, 1895 - 447 páginas |
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... bring the theory to a reductio ad absurdum so complete as to be unanswer- able . Pain and suffering are usually indicative of some want of adaptation to the physical , social or moral environment of the individual , and as such their ...
... bring the theory to a reductio ad absurdum so complete as to be unanswer- able . Pain and suffering are usually indicative of some want of adaptation to the physical , social or moral environment of the individual , and as such their ...
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... brings suffering and death . As in the nebulæ lay the potentialities in embryotic activity that have brought into being solar systems and worlds , and in an amoeba those that have finally differentiated into man , so in the world of ...
... brings suffering and death . As in the nebulæ lay the potentialities in embryotic activity that have brought into being solar systems and worlds , and in an amoeba those that have finally differentiated into man , so in the world of ...
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... bring down on your head greater damage as a result . Nature by this law is incessantly seeking for a balance . In physics we call it equilibri- um , in morals equity . They are but different names for what fundamentally is the same ...
... bring down on your head greater damage as a result . Nature by this law is incessantly seeking for a balance . In physics we call it equilibri- um , in morals equity . They are but different names for what fundamentally is the same ...
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... bring some of these figures before your minds in a more concrete form . The di- ameter of the sun , as I said , is about 860,000 miles . You all know that by traveling steadily one can make the circuit of the earth pretty comfortably in ...
... bring some of these figures before your minds in a more concrete form . The di- ameter of the sun , as I said , is about 860,000 miles . You all know that by traveling steadily one can make the circuit of the earth pretty comfortably in ...
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... bringing it into contact with something hot , that instant we are aware of what has occurred , the intelligence having been flashed along the nerves to the brain . Experi- ments have shown , however , that impressions travel along the ...
... bringing it into contact with something hot , that instant we are aware of what has occurred , the intelligence having been flashed along the nerves to the brain . Experi- ments have shown , however , that impressions travel along the ...
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Página 323 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 238 - But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Página 238 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Página 250 - There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Página 238 - Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O! Men, with Sisters dear! O! Men! with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures
Página 354 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 323 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 319 - ... individual case. In the main, however, all expert opinion would agree that abrupt acquisition of the new habit is the best way, if there be a real possibility of carrying it out. We must be careful not to give the will so stiff a task as to insure its defeat at the very outset; but, provided one can stand it, a sharp period of suffering, and then a free time, is the best thing to aim at...
Página 319 - The peculiarity of the moral habits, contradistinguishing them from the intellectual acquisitions, is the presence of two hostile powers, one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right.
Página 353 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be...