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  WOULD THAT THE REST OF THE PHENOMENA OF NATURE COULD BE DEDUCED BY A LIKE KIND OF REASONING FROM MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES


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  LOVE led the Sage through Death''s tremendous porch, Cheer''d with his smile, and lighted with his torch;-- 190


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  The Life of the Individual 369 CONCLUSION 373 INDEX 375 TRANSLATOR''S INTRODUCTORY NOTE With the consent of


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id: 29904
title: Thoughts on Art and Life
author: Leonardo, da Vinci
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  ancient art no painter had been able to fully express the human form, all thy life, and thou art not yet aware of the thing which more fully things by reason of the evil nature of man, who would use them for memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem [Sidenote: Painting excels all the Works of Man] Painting represents to the brain the works of nature with greater truth nature are nobler than the words which are the works of man, because thing to imitate the works of nature, which are the true images And if thou, O poet, wishest to describe the works of nature by thine He who blames painting blames nature, because the works of the painter represent the works of nature, and for this reason he who blames in [Sidenote: Painting and Nature] thy art every variety of nature''s forms, and this thou canst not do


id: 17862
title: Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons
author: Mitchell, Donald Grant
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  and little Nelly, as you march up to the door of the old family mansion, your mind flashes home--over your life, your hope, your fate--like As the days pass, you grow stronger; and Frank comes in to tell you of heart, and those little feet walking every day into your affections. long hours of toilsome days little thought comes over you of the morning Frank; and you love your mother, and your father; as for Nelly, Heaven Nelly; pass your little hand through the gray locks of your father; love the affections like new-found friends, and gain a hold upon the heart, longing to win you back to the old joys of that Home-love, which linger The thought of Nelly suggests new dreams that are little apt to find feel your heart warming toward him as he takes little Nelly in his arms ----The old man is gone: his dream-life is ended.


id: 17201
title: Is Life Worth Living?
author: Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
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  The worth the positive school claim for life, is essentially a moral This means that life contains some special prize, to which morality That the fundamental moral question is, ''_In what way shall the The positive school profess to answer this question both ways 234 human nature itself; it is a kind of maundering common to all moral the dignity of man''s moral and spiritual life._'' But here comes the external things, the world in its present state could no more work moral end that in some way or other it be generally presentable, so that social morality, the only possible meaning of the _general good_, is not importance of the moral end is a thing that the facts of life, as we now thing for us that we should be happy; and if it be true that the moral We may mean that as a matter of fact men generally give a full assent to


id: 26163
title: Creative Evolution
author: Bergson, Henri
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  time--Organized bodies and real duration--Individuality and Life and consciousness--The apparent place of man in nature 176 logical form, is incapable of presenting the true nature of life, the us how life goes to work to obtain a certain result, we find its way of Regarded from this point of view, _life is like a current passing intellect proper, in order to grasp the true nature of vital activity. function be the effect of the organ or its cause, it matters little; one different supposing that light acted directly on the organized matter so that the variation of organized matter works in a definite way, just as work by which life organizes matter--so that we cannot say, as has often take life _in general_ for its object, just as physical science, in ON THE MEANING OF LIFE--THE ORDER OF NATURE AND THE FORM OF INTELLIGENCE


id: 26321
title: Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel''s "Riddle of the Universe"
author: Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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  fundamental existence, of "life" or of "mind," it ought to reply that The possibility that "life" may be a real and basal form of existence, The fact concerning life which lies at the root of Professor Haeckel''s that without matter the things we call mind, intelligence, consciousness, Matter possesses energy, in the form of persistent motion, and it is propelled by force; but neither matter nor energy possesses the power world for a time, but that it can also exist in some sense that life has an existence apart from its material manifestations as we the self-determined action of mind or living things upon matter, control or direct material forces--timing them and determining other words, life can generate no trace of energy, it can only guide generate energy nor directly exert force, yet it can cause matter to material, and timing the liberation of existing energy, as to produce


id: 21668
title: The Complex Vision
author: Powys, John Cowper
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  half-discovery of all living souls, a universe the truth and beauty of eternal vision the soul is occupied, and the person attempting to original activity of the human soul, associated with that universal where such a soul-monad exists there is a complex vision; and the complex vision, that we are separate personal souls surrounded out of which the personal soul creates its "universe," time and evil or malice exists in the souls of the immortals as in all human soul''s complex vision becomes aware that the ideas of beauty, of this love is the creative energy of those personal souls we have the "sons of the universe" should satisfy the love of human souls attainment of the eternal vision the malice in all living souls but between the power of life and love, in the body and the soul vision of every other soul in the universe.


id: 15877
title: Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
author: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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  A man must live conformably to the universal nature, which means, the ruling part; consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this Thou seest how few the things are, the which if a man lays hold of, he does a thing seem to thee to be a deviation from man''s nature, when it must come from such things: but the man has reason, it will be said, and Whatever of the things which are not within thy power thou shalt No man will hinder thee from living according to the reason of thy 8. Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them, if it Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things thou according to the nature of the universal; and in a little time thou wilt If a thing is in thy own power, why dost thou do it?


id: 26861
title: The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
author: Darwin, Erasmus
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  matter of heat may be called the general repulsive ether; pleasure of life to the animals and vegetables, which formed vegetable is formed in great quantity; and he believes, that the water electric ethers thus unite, a chemical explosion occurs, like an 4. Glass holds within it in combination much resinous electric ether, vitreous electric ether from surrounding bodies, which stands on it attractive and repulsive powers of the accumulated electric ether pass kind, it attracts the resinous electric ether of the finger towards existence of two electric ethers, which enter the water at different 6. The combination of the electric ethers with metallic bodies, before bodies emit either or both of the electric ethers at the time of their idea of the attractions of the great masses of matter, which form the electric and magnetic ethers themselves form atmospheres round other of ideas with certain forms, colours, combinations, or successions of


id: 2680
title: Meditations
author: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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  these things suffice thee; let them be always unto thee, as thy general in thee, whereby thou art enabled to know the true nature of things, and which the common nature hath determined, be unto thee as thy health. true proper actions, so man is unto me but as a thing indifferent: even those other things are made tolerable unto thee, and thou also in those general thou canst Conceive possible and proper unto any man, think that when thou art presented with them, affect thee; as the same things still No man can hinder thee to live as thy nature doth require. can happen unto thee, but what the common good of nature doth require. either unto God or man, whatsoever it is that doth happen in the world Whatsoever doth happen unto thee, thou art naturally by thy natural hurt can it be unto thee whatsoever any man else doth, as long as thou


id: 12264
title: Father Payne
author: Benson, Arthur Christopher
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  "No rational man can think that," said Father Payne. "And I, on the contrary," said Father Payne, "think that a man who always "Of course, you must not think in that coldblooded way," said Father Payne, "Of course you are," said Father Payne; "you can''t live life on prudent "Yes, of course it can," said Father Payne, "among simple people--but we "Yes," said Father Payne, "but I know what I want to fight. "Yes, that is so," said Father Payne, "if you regard war as caused by God. But I rather believe that it is one of the things that God is fighting "I think we do know it," said Father Payne, "deep down in ourselves. "Well, a thing like the existence of God," said Father Payne; "that at best "I don''t know," said Father Payne; "I think it''s rather natural! "Most people don''t like this sort of day," said Father Payne, as we


id: 39928
author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
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  part of the heavens remote from the Milky Way. Nebulæ were for a long time confounded with star-clusters, because it was stars; and all these objects are most frequent in or near the Milky Way. Their spectra show a green line not produced by any terrestrial element. DISTANCE OF THE STARS--THE SUN''S MOTION THROUGH SPACE that great luminous circle of stars a distance of about 500 light years. times the diameter of the sun; and as the stars of this type are probably star-density in different regions at equal distances from the Milky Way'' sun now occupied a nearly central position in the great star-system, it was stars in the stellar universe each five times the mass of our sun, and in a universe of 100 million stars, each five times the mass of our sun, Universe of stars, how its form has affected our sun and earth, 308.

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  Man''s Place in the Universe A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds, 3rd Edition


id: 38117
title: The Book of Life
author: Sinclair, Upton
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  unaccountable thing; but some day we shall know enough of man''s body and Civilized man, creature of art and of knowledge, has no love for nature day we shall know just what combination of chemicals causes a human Discussing the importance of certain organic salts to the body, Dr. Quick states: "Animals have been fed, as an experiment, on foods time I was doing these things with my body, I was going right on working When I was a boy living in New York, there was a man by the name of Dr. Tanner, who took a forty-day fast. life--things which every man and woman must know if we are to stop facts of the sex relationships of men and women in present-day society. At different times in my life I have talked with all kinds of people, good time, developing both their minds and bodies, and learning to know


id: 43618
title: Human Life
author: Knight, Sherwood Sweet
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  or conditions surrounding man''s existence in times past, is of time equal to no less than twenty-five million years, inasmuch as these THE LENGTH OF TIME DURING WHICH MAN HAS EXISTED THE LENGTH OF TIME DURING WHICH MAN HAS EXISTED period of extreme cold must have existed some one-half million years years ago, there existed a high state of civilization under the old correct, must mean a very great state of antiquity, so far as man is The fact that some living bodies have the power to form life-condition, is to represent the individual''s power over himself the human soul, and even this usually at a time in life when the little there is no other time in life when the human mind will so readily time, and for the reasons above stated, kept man immune from it. fact that, in times past, man has been able to mold the opinions of


id: 43719
title: Life''s Basis and Life''s Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life
author: Eucken, Rudolf
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  expressed, the spiritual life which transcends nature, the individual, religion it regards the spiritual life as a power of positive creation substance of the spiritual life and the form of its existence in man; in This view has been radically altered by the course of the Modern Age. When the invisible world became uncertain to man and the life directed the present, an independent spiritual life, making man more fact of the development of the spiritual life to independence of man, as far as man belongs to nature and the spiritual life has not yet development of the spiritual life in humanity: from mere individuals and the spiritual life to nature, as well as in its relation to humanity; it of the spiritual life to nature and to the world is also to be regarded by the nature of the spiritual life and its relation to the world; and


id: 45122
author: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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  work entrusted to us, it forms the true religion of life. In nearly all religions God remains far from man. Father, they are of like nature with God and Christ. removed, the human heart would recover the old trust in God--man But God is a perfect and loving Father--He knows that we can us bestow all praise and glory on Christ as the best son of God. Let us feel how unworthy we are to be called His brothers, and the man to God. They have called Christ another person of the Godhead. the new and true sense of the word He was God. To my mind man is True Christianity, I mean the religion of Christ, seems to me to religion--I mean the true original teaching of Christ--and I feel knowledge only, ''through man knowing God, or rather being known of world was made for it--with real faith in a higher life I believe

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  Thoughts on Life and Religion An Aftermath from the Writings of The Right Honourable Professor Max Müller


id: 55761
title: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods
author: Steiner, Rudolf
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  percepts given to the senses, i.e., the Material World. and Reality, Subject and Object, Appearance and Thing-in-itself, Ego perception the object appears as given, in thought the mind seems to naïve man calls the outer world, or material nature, is for Berkeley world is my idea, I have enunciated the result of an act of thought, Thought contributes this content to the percept from the world of instead of a world-knower, subject and object (percept and self) would object, determined by natural law, is perceived by us as a process of all that is objective would be contained in percept, concept and idea. with external objects the idea is determined by the percept. of action lying outside the real world of our percepts and thoughts, in knowledge, man lives and enters into the world of ideas as effective moral activity depends on knowledge of the particular world


id: 53261
title: We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses
author: Muir, Edwin
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  The revolt against conventions in art, thought, life and manners may existence as the tread mill: that is what is meant by Original Sin. And as such it is the great enemy of the Future, the believers in which life contends in these men with their old health, their desire to live modern man; a thousand times more healthy, it is true--perhaps because To the most modern man must have come at some time the thought, What if never cease to read spirit into Life-affirming things, such as pride, lies told out of great love have been creative and life-giving. Renaissance was a newly discovered love of Life and, therefore, of Man? But out of this love of God in Man it created, nevertheless, something If Life is but an expression of creative Love, then a morality founded _Tragedy, Life and Love_ tragedy is the truest expression in art of Life and of Love; for its


id: 55317
author: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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  master in order that a man may live a smooth-flowing, God-fearing To dread a work of Nature is a childish thing, and this is, remember that no man loses any other life than that which now lives, proper action, holding one thing only in life-long avoidance--to find rest is common as we have seen, there remains to the good man this Therefore, in such things lies neither the end of man nor men obstruct me in my natural activities, man enters the class of spirit we should act throughout life; and when things of great things that are in our power to be good or evil, there is no reason and know you as a man indeed, living according to Nature. For death, too, is a thing accordant with nature. according to Nature, you will be a man, worthy of the ordered Universe It is the nature of all things to change, to turn, and to

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  The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742


id: 60999
title: The Seeder
author: Williams, Max
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  It took me less than three thousand years to catch up with Pop; which, at 018970 hours in orbit around an ugly-looking A3-type planet, and couple of feet of basalt and make Pop and his ship bounce a little. Pop got to his feet and stood there looking kind of sheepish as I he looked like a couple of billion years old. "Welcome aboard planet," he said. enough, but the old fool had so much junk crammed into the ship you Pop was still standing in the same place when I crawled out, looking as turned toward the planet''s oversize satellite and a raw, angry-looking "All right," I said. "Okay," said Pop. "Listen," said Pop. don''t know for sure if _any_ life will be left in our galaxy after two planet--Pop had landed on the third--was going through G14 and long-life gesture twelve toward the planet we''d left. "That''s right," said Pop. "That''s right," said Pop.


