Recent Developments in European Thought: Essays Arranged and EdFrancis Sydney Marvin H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920 - 306 strani |
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... individual capacity of man . Men had dreamt for ages of flying , but it was not until the invention of the internal combustion engine that bird - like wings and the mechanical skill of man could be brought together and made effective ...
... individual capacity of man . Men had dreamt for ages of flying , but it was not until the invention of the internal combustion engine that bird - like wings and the mechanical skill of man could be brought together and made effective ...
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... individual soul . · Our book has no special chapter on the League of Nations itself . The idea pervades the whole , and the subject was treated in detail in the first volume of this series ( The Unity of Western Civilization , 1915 ) ...
... individual soul . · Our book has no special chapter on the League of Nations itself . The idea pervades the whole , and the subject was treated in detail in the first volume of this series ( The Unity of Western Civilization , 1915 ) ...
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... will inquire , does this imply the enlargement of every individual or even of the average 1 R. R. Marett in Progress and History ( Oxford University Press ) . or the typical personality ? And if not , what 20 I GENERAL SURVEY.
... will inquire , does this imply the enlargement of every individual or even of the average 1 R. R. Marett in Progress and History ( Oxford University Press ) . or the typical personality ? And if not , what 20 I GENERAL SURVEY.
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... individual men , an Aristotle or a Shakespeare , in the past , with whom later ages never have , and perhaps never may , compare . The second , that there are good grounds for thinking that the average man has improved in goodness and ...
... individual men , an Aristotle or a Shakespeare , in the past , with whom later ages never have , and perhaps never may , compare . The second , that there are good grounds for thinking that the average man has improved in goodness and ...
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... individual , its pursuit on scientific lines , and its alliance with biology , suggest one thought which applies generally to an age of science and may be found to throw some illumination even on the future . Which of all types of ...
... individual , its pursuit on scientific lines , and its alliance with biology , suggest one thought which applies generally to an age of science and may be found to throw some illumination even on the future . Which of all types of ...
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Aristotle artist atom Babylonia beauty become belief Bergson biology butty called Catholic César Franck common composer conception criticism definite Descartes discovery doctrine electricity electrons energy England English evolution of religion existence experience expression fact factory feeling French Georgian poetry German Greek hand heart Hegel hope human idea ideal idealistic important individual industry influence inspiration Kant knowledge labour Lancashire less living magic magic and religion matter means merely mind miners modern monotheism moral musician nature navvy never Nietzsche nineteenth century organization Parnassian perhaps Philosophy Plato poet poetry political polytheism postulates present primitive principles problem radiation relation religious Robertson Smith Rupert Brooke scientific seems sense Sir James Frazer social society soul spirit stage symbolists theory things thought tion totemism trade union Truck true truth unity universal voluntary association whole
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Stran 136 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Stran 250 - Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
Stran 73 - If we analyse the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
Stran 106 - I have grown to believe that an old man, seated in his arm-chair, waiting patiently, with his lamp beside him; giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house; interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light; submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny...
Stran 12 - is becoming one in an altogether new sense. . . . More than four centuries ago the discovery of America marked the first step in the process by which the European races have now gained dominion over nearly the whole earth. ... As the earth has been narrowed through the new forces science has placed at our disposal. . . .the movements of politics, of economics, and of thought, in each of its regions, become more closely interwoven.
Stran 129 - A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Stran 120 - Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the mirth, The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth; Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth!
Stran 306 - And again he heard that voice, forced and ringing feebly, but with a penetrating effect of quietness in the enormous discord of noises, as if sent out from some remote spot of peace beyond the black wastes of the gale...
Stran 304 - after all the nameless woe that Inquiry, which for me, what it is not always, was genuine Love of Truth, had wrought me, I nevertheless still loved Truth, and would bate no jot of my allegiance to her. "Truth"! I cried, "though the Heavens crush me for following her : no Falsehood ! though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of Apostasy.
Stran 132 - I'm going to Paradise, For there is no hell in the land of the loving God." And I'll say to them: "Come, sweet friends of the blue skies, Poor creatures who with a flap of the ears or a nod Of the head shake off the buffets, the bees, the flies . . ." Let me come with these donkeys, Lord, into your land, These beasts who bow their heads so gently, and...