Recent Developments in European Thought: Essays Arranged and EdFrancis Sydney Marvin H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920 - 306 strani |
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... school of mathematicians claim that they have recast the foundations of the fundamental science and assimilated it to the simplest laws of all thinking . Some discussion of this will be found in the chapter on I 9 GENERAL SURVEY.
... school of mathematicians claim that they have recast the foundations of the fundamental science and assimilated it to the simplest laws of all thinking . Some discussion of this will be found in the chapter on I 9 GENERAL SURVEY.
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... laws of growth shall be followed , which science has already revealed in part and will reveal more fully . For the spirit of science is the spirit of hope . II PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR A. E. TAYLOR BETWEEN forty and fifty 24 Ι GENERAL SURVEY.
... laws of growth shall be followed , which science has already revealed in part and will reveal more fully . For the spirit of science is the spirit of hope . II PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR A. E. TAYLOR BETWEEN forty and fifty 24 Ι GENERAL SURVEY.
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... laws ' by which all this detail is to be co - ordinated , the reasons for thinking these laws true , and the precise range of their significance . The work of men like Cantor , Dedekind , Frege , Whitehead , Russell , is providing us ...
... laws ' by which all this detail is to be co - ordinated , the reasons for thinking these laws true , and the precise range of their significance . The work of men like Cantor , Dedekind , Frege , Whitehead , Russell , is providing us ...
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... law of causality are types of order which my mind puts into the data of its know- ledge in the very act of attending to them , and it is there- fore certain that I shall never perceive or think anything which does not conform to these ...
... law of causality are types of order which my mind puts into the data of its know- ledge in the very act of attending to them , and it is there- fore certain that I shall never perceive or think anything which does not conform to these ...
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... laws which prevail in the world , deliberately making it his last word to his fellows that their duty is to set themselves to reverse the ' cosmic process , to select for preservation just the human types which , if the much - abused ...
... laws which prevail in the world , deliberately making it his last word to his fellows that their duty is to set themselves to reverse the ' cosmic process , to select for preservation just the human types which , if the much - abused ...
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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...