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... Human Understanding declared that there are no innate ideas , that the ego is passive , a product of ideas originating in the senses . Locke distinguished , however , between the primary and secondary qualities of the object . The ...
... Human Understanding declared that there are no innate ideas , that the ego is passive , a product of ideas originating in the senses . Locke distinguished , however , between the primary and secondary qualities of the object . The ...
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... human understanding can know nothing . We may by demonstration , which , how- ever , Locke regarded as an inferior ... Human reason is limited . The origin of ideas is sensa- tion . Experience favors their growth . All the metaphysical ...
... human understanding can know nothing . We may by demonstration , which , how- ever , Locke regarded as an inferior ... Human reason is limited . The origin of ideas is sensa- tion . Experience favors their growth . All the metaphysical ...
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... human interests was at least within the power of human reason ; and where ... understanding is limited , transcen- dental speculation may not unprofitably ... human understanding be limited , the very existence of the boundary marks the ...
... human interests was at least within the power of human reason ; and where ... understanding is limited , transcen- dental speculation may not unprofitably ... human understanding be limited , the very existence of the boundary marks the ...
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... human understanding . Yet they did not accept the Deistic argu- ment and reject the authority of revealed religion . Locke had continued to believe in a metaphysical God , though he could not explain his faith by his principles of the ...
... human understanding . Yet they did not accept the Deistic argu- ment and reject the authority of revealed religion . Locke had continued to believe in a metaphysical God , though he could not explain his faith by his principles of the ...
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... understanding of Providence , at any rate a won- derful variety of joys ... human nature shows an instinc- tive belief in immortality . And though this ... human soul " 5 and tend to prove the independence of soul and body . While the ...
... understanding of Providence , at any rate a won- derful variety of joys ... human nature shows an instinc- tive belief in immortality . And though this ... human soul " 5 and tend to prove the independence of soul and body . While the ...
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Page 109 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
Page 118 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest -wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 118 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 117 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain; they may have it from Prussia; but, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Page 118 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 84 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...
Page 100 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Page 103 - In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated absurdity of the human mind might have crusted it over in the course of ages, that ninety-nine in a hundred of the people of England would not prefer to impiety.
Page 113 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Page 114 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.