The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular PhilosophyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 332 頁 |
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... religious field are their special forms of mental weak- ness , brought about by the notion , carefully instilled , that there is something called scientific evidence by waiting upon which they shall shipwreck in regard to truth X Preface .
... religious field are their special forms of mental weak- ness , brought about by the notion , carefully instilled , that there is something called scientific evidence by waiting upon which they shall shipwreck in regard to truth X Preface .
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... ness of heart seems healthier than this excessive ner- vousness on their behalf . At any rate , it seems the fittest thing for the empiricist philosopher . VIII . And now , after all this introduction , let us go straight at our ...
... ness of heart seems healthier than this excessive ner- vousness on their behalf . At any rate , it seems the fittest thing for the empiricist philosopher . VIII . And now , after all this introduction , let us go straight at our ...
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... ness into a regular technique , her so - called method of verification ; and she has fallen so deeply in love with the method that one may even say she has ceased to care for truth by itself at all . It is only truth as tech- nically ...
... ness into a regular technique , her so - called method of verification ; and she has fallen so deeply in love with the method that one may even say she has ceased to care for truth by itself at all . It is only truth as tech- nically ...
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... ness and simplicity thus set up rival claims , and make a real dilemma for the thinker . A man's philosophic attitude is determined by the balance in him of these two cravings . No system of philosophy can hope to be universally ...
... ness and simplicity thus set up rival claims , and make a real dilemma for the thinker . A man's philosophic attitude is determined by the balance in him of these two cravings . No system of philosophy can hope to be universally ...
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... ness holds , there is an end to explanation ; there is an end to what the mind can do , or can intelligently desire . . . . The path of science as exhibited in modern ages is toward generality , wider and wider , until we reach the ...
... ness holds , there is an end to explanation ; there is an end to what the mind can do , or can intelligently desire . . . . The path of science as exhibited in modern ages is toward generality , wider and wider , until we reach the ...
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A. R. Wallace absolutely abstract actually appears believe better casuistic chance character conceived conception concrete consciousness course demands determinism deterministic divine doubt Edmund Gurney emotional empiricism empiricist environment escape essence eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience fact faith feel genius give gnosticism Grant Allen heart Hegel hegelian human hypothesis ideal identity indeterminism individual infinite intellectual judgment kind logical matter means mediumship ment mental mind monism mood moral moral universe nature of things negation ness never notion object option outward Pascal's wager passion pessimism phenomena philosopher physical point of view possible practical principle prove pure question rational reason reflex action regret relations religion religious result scepticism scientific seems sense simply sort space subjectivism suppose theism theoretic theory thinker thou thought tion true truth ultimate unity universe whole word
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第 152 頁 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
第 162 頁 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
第 217 頁 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
第 76 頁 - Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love...
第 63 頁 - God himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. For my own part, I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this.
第 231 頁 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
第 215 頁 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
第 13 頁 - Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds; for to say, under such circumstances, "Do not decide, but leave the question open...
第 26 頁 - How many women's hearts are vanquished by the mere sanguine insistence of some man that they must love him! he will not consent to the hypothesis that they cannot. The desire for a certain kind of truth here brings about that special truth's existence; and so it is in innumerable cases of other sorts.
第 47 頁 - Who is most wretched in this dolorous place? I think myself; yet I would rather be My miserable self than He, than He Who formed such creatures to His own disgrace. "The vilest thing must be less vile than Thou From whom it had its being, God and Lord! Creator of all woe and sin! abhorred, • Malignant and implacable! I vow "That not for all Thy power furled and unfurled, For all the temples to Thy glory built, Would I assume the ignominious guilt Of having made such men in such a world.