The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural LawsCassell, 1803 - 236 pages |
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... consider it painful to be compelled to seek higher sources of gratification . But to the animal nature of Man have been added moral sentiments and reflecting faculties , which not only place him above all other creatures on earth , but ...
... consider it painful to be compelled to seek higher sources of gratification . But to the animal nature of Man have been added moral sentiments and reflecting faculties , which not only place him above all other creatures on earth , but ...
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... considering moral actions , on the contrary , the public mind leaves out of view the natural and inevitable . Being accustomed to regard human punishment as arbitrary , and capable of abeyance or alteration , it views in the same light ...
... considering moral actions , on the contrary , the public mind leaves out of view the natural and inevitable . Being accustomed to regard human punishment as arbitrary , and capable of abeyance or alteration , it views in the same light ...
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... consider whether their universally confessed failure to render men as virtuous and happy as they desired may not , to some extent , have arisen from their non - fulfilment of the natural conditions instituted by the Creator as ...
... consider whether their universally confessed failure to render men as virtuous and happy as they desired may not , to some extent , have arisen from their non - fulfilment of the natural conditions instituted by the Creator as ...
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... consider the physical laws , the organic laws , and the laws which characterise intelligent and moral beings . 1st . The Physical Laws embrace all the phenomena of mere matter . A heavy body , for instance , when unsupported , falls to ...
... consider the physical laws , the organic laws , and the laws which characterise intelligent and moral beings . 1st . The Physical Laws embrace all the phenomena of mere matter . A heavy body , for instance , when unsupported , falls to ...
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... consider this inquiry to surpass the limits of the human understanding . It offers an explanation , however , of one use which pain serves-- that of enforcing obedience to the natural laws ; and it shows that the human mind is ...
... consider this inquiry to surpass the limits of the human understanding . It offers an explanation , however , of one use which pain serves-- that of enforcing obedience to the natural laws ; and it shows that the human mind is ...
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according action activity adapted animal faculties animal propensities appears arranged ascer benevolence bestowed body brain Cassell's causes cloth condition conduct consequences constitution creation Creator death desire discover disease Divine duty effects enjoy enjoyment evil exercise existence external objects feelings GEORGE COMBE gilt gratification happiness harmony higher sentiments ignorance Illustrated improvement individual inflict infringement instance institutions intellectual faculties intellectual laws intelligent intuitive knowledge JULIAN HAWTHORNE knowledge labour laws of nature live lower animals mankind marriage ment mind misery moral and intellectual moral law moral sentiments nations natural laws natural philosophy neglect obedience obey observation offender offspring operation organic laws organised pain parents perceive persons philosophy Phrenology physical laws pleasure possess practical present principle propen punishment qualities race regard relations religion render ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON selfish ship society suffering supremacy T. P. O'CONNOR tion transmitted vessels of wrath views vigour Vols W. W. GREENER
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.