An Introduction to the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: With a Biographical SketchD. Appleton and Company, 1894 - 234 หน้า |
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absolute action activity advance ancestor-worship anthropomorphic become belief cause cerning changes chapter character civilization complete conception consciousness course creed Darwin Data of Ethics definite Deity doctrine of evolution essay evolutionary existence experience fact factors force gradual Herbert HERBERT SPENCER heterogeneity homogeneous human hypothesis ical important individual organism Inductions infinite intellectual interpretation intuitionists John Fiske knowledge less limited matter Max Müller means ment mind modern moral sense natural natural selection Nebular Hypothesis Origin of Species original ourselves period phenomena political possible present primitive Principles of Ethics Principles of Psychology Principles of Sociology problem Prof progress question race recognized regard relations religion religious ideas savage scholasticism scientific Sir John Lubbock Social Statics society speculations Spen Spencer tendency theism theological theory things thinker thought tion truth ultimate universe utilitarian volume whole words
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หน้า 92 - Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, | And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
หน้า 125 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
หน้า 88 - Doing this, and making the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
หน้า 86 - ... the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous, is that in which Progress essentially...
หน้า 220 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
หน้า 170 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
หน้า 85 - Wolff, Goethe, and von Baer, have established the truth that the series of changes gone through during the development of a seed into a tree, or an ovum into an animal, constitute an advance from homogeneity of structure to heterogeneity of structure.
หน้า 110 - Here, indeed, we arrive at the barrier which needs to be perpetually pointed out; alike to those who seek materialistic explanations of mental phenomena, and to those who are alarmed lest such explanations may be found. The last class prove by their fear, almost as much as the first prove by their hope, that they believe Mind may possibly be interpreted in terms of Matter; whereas many whom they vituperate as materialists, are profoundly convinced that there is not the remotest possibility of so...
หน้า 161 - Conscience : though in that complex phenomenon, as it actually exists, the simple fact is, in general, all incrusted over with collateral associations, derived from sympathy, from love, and still more from fear ; from all the forms of religious feeling ; from the recollections of childhood, and of all our past life ; from self-esteem, desire of the esteem of others, and occasionally even self-abasement.
หน้า 176 - The view for which I contend is, that Morality properly so-called — the science of right conduct — has for its object to determine how and why certain modes of conduct are detrimental, and certain other modes beneficial. These good and bad results cannot be accidental, but must be necessary consequences of the constitution of things...