 | 1894 - 900 pages
...this way is by no means so certain; it is not so sure that the transmitted character of an evil liver is worse, or that of a righteous man better, than...escape from the endless round of transmigrations. The earlier forms of Indian philosophy agreed with those prevalent in our own times, in supposing the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 380 pages
...this way is by no means so certain ; it is not so sure that the transmitted character of an evil liver is worse, or that of a righteous man better, than...belief in the influence of conditions, notably of self-dief cipline, on the karma was not merely a necessary i postulate of its theory of retribution,... | |
 | Robert Watson Frazer - 1898 - 502 pages
...this way is by no means so certain. It is not so sure that the transmitted character of an evil liver is worse, or that of a righteous man better, than...escape from the endless round of transmigrations." — Huxley, " Romanes Lecture," p. 15. * "Granting the premises, I am not aware of any escape from... | |
 | Arthur Joseph Westermayr - 1912 - 462 pages
...this way, is by no means so certain. It is not so sure that the transmitted character of an evil-liver is worse, or that of a righteous man better, than...the endless round of transmigrations." — Huxley's Romanes Lecture, pp. 14 to 19. Krishna: The reincarnation of Vishnu. Has been referred to by modern... | |
 | Arthur Joseph Westermayr - 1925 - 460 pages
...this way, is by no means so certain. It is not so sure that the transmitted character of an evil-liver is worse, or that of a righteous man better, than...the endless round of transmigrations." — Huxley's Romanes Lecture, pp. 14 to 19. 'Krishna: The reincarnation of Vishnu. Has been referred to by modern... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1997 - 398 pages
...this way is by no means so certain; it is not so sure that the transmitted character of an evil liver is worse, or that of a righteous man better, than...escape from the endless round of transmigrations. The earlier forms of Indian philosophy agreed with those prevalent in our own times, in supposing the... | |
 | Gertrude Himmelfarb - 2007 - 333 pages
...this way is by no means so certain; it is not so sure that the transmitted character of an evil liver is worse, or that of a righteous man better, than...escape from the endless round of transmigrations. Let us now set our faces westwards, towards Asia Minor and Greece and Italy, to view the rise and progress... | |
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... character may be greatly facilitated, or impeded, by conditions, of which self-discipline, or the absence of it, are among the most important, is indubitable; but that the character itself is modified in this way is by no means so certain ; it is... 