The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural LawsCassell, 1803 - 236 pages |
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... possessed . The popular interpretations of Christianity have thrown the public mind so widely out of the track of God's natural providence , that His object or purpose in this pre - ordainment is rarely thought of ; and the most ...
... possessed . The popular interpretations of Christianity have thrown the public mind so widely out of the track of God's natural providence , that His object or purpose in this pre - ordainment is rarely thought of ; and the most ...
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... possess some degree of intelligence and certain animal propensities , but no moral feelings ; Man belongs to the second , because he possesses all the three . Their various faculties have received a definite constitution , and stand in ...
... possess some degree of intelligence and certain animal propensities , but no moral feelings ; Man belongs to the second , because he possesses all the three . Their various faculties have received a definite constitution , and stand in ...
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... possess for higher enjoyments which are never attained ; and they are objects of dislike and malevolence to men of similar dispositions to theirs , who inflict on them the evils which their own provoked propensities incite them to ...
... possess for higher enjoyments which are never attained ; and they are objects of dislike and malevolence to men of similar dispositions to theirs , who inflict on them the evils which their own provoked propensities incite them to ...
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... possess and tendency to accumulate ; the sense of property springs from it.- Abuses : Inordinate desire of property , selfishness , avarice , theft . 11. CONSTRUCTIVENESS . - Uses : Desire to build and to con- struct works of art ...
... possess and tendency to accumulate ; the sense of property springs from it.- Abuses : Inordinate desire of property , selfishness , avarice , theft . 11. CONSTRUCTIVENESS . - Uses : Desire to build and to con- struct works of art ...
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... possess the faculties in different degrees : I do not mean , therefore , to say that in each individual the dictates of his animal , moral , and intellectual powers , acting in harmonious combination , are rules of conduct not to be ...
... possess the faculties in different degrees : I do not mean , therefore , to say that in each individual the dictates of his animal , moral , and intellectual powers , acting in harmonious combination , are rules of conduct not to be ...
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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.