Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold, Ruskin, and Spencer, with an Epilogue on Social ReconstructionS. Sonnenschein, 1891 - 275 pages |
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Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold ... John Mackinnon Robertson Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold ... John Mackinnon Robertson Affichage du livre entier - 1891 |
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action Arnold Autobiography Bain belief Bentham bias Carlyle Carlyle's certainly Chartism cited civilisation Clavigera Coleridge criticism culture doctrine early Emerson England English error essay ethical evil fact faculty fallacy father feeling Froude generalisation genius George Eliot give Goethe Harriet Martineau human ideas idle idle class inspiration instinct intellectual J. S. Mill James Mill John Mill labour less Letter literary logic London Macaulay matter Matthew Arnold Mill's mind modern moral nature never Pantheism passion philosophy phrase pietism poetry political position practical principle Professor proposition reason recognised reform Religion religious righteousness Ruskin Sartor Resartus scientific seems social Social Statics society sophism speak Spencer spirit Study of Sociology taste teaching temper tendencies Theism theory things thinker Thomas Carlyle thought tion transcendentalist true truth Ulverstone universal writing wrote
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Page 128 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Page 124 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 200 - AMONG the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious — certainly the least creditable — is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Page 235 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 173 - Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be...
Page 85 - I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it.
Page 79 - One only form of belief in the supernatural— one only theory respecting the origin and government of the universe— stands wholly clear both of intellectual contradiction and of moral obliquity. It is that which, resigning irrevocably the idea of an omnipotent creator, regards Nature and Life not as the expression throughout of the moral character and purpose of the Deity, but as the product of a struggle between contriving goodness and an intractable material, as was believed by Plato, or a Principle...
Page 124 - Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To wander all day in the sunlight among the tribes of animals, unrelated to anything better ; to behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them...
Page 242 - ... a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 97 - It would be possible for the state to guarantee employment at ample wages to all who are born. But if it does this, it is bound in self-protection, and for the sake of every purpose for which government exists, to provide that no person shall be born without its consent.