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  The Meaning of the Word Truth--The Existence of Julius Cæsar--The Absolute and the Strenuous Life--Hébert on Pragmatism--Abstractionism


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  Mill and Bentham lived for many years on terms of great intimacy, in was during the last few years of Bentham''s life," said James Mill''s define very clearly the political ground taken by Mr. Mill, Mr. Fonblanque, and those who had then come to be called Philosophical work was "A System of Logic," the result of many years'' previous appeared "Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy," great and loving heart, her noble soul, her clear, powerful, original, course of philosophical and political writing on which he entered. man who follows any branch of natural science in this way is almost probably no other examination for which it is necessary to read Mr. Mill''s "Logic" and "Political Economy." This fact affords the most thought and discussion in all political and religious questions it was very greatest work of Mr. Mill,--his ''Political Economy.'' Locke lived

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  John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors


id: 20585
title: Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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  world; at worst as a spectre-fighting Man, nay who will one day be a ''True is it that, in these days, man can do almost all things, only world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. epochs of the world''s history, we shall find the Great Man to have the history of an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming a Great Man. Ever, to the true instincts of men, there is something godlike in him. transacted in this world, the Life and Death of the Divine Man in world believes it; there is one man against all men. things and men, a good man. once more was a man found who durst tell all men that God''s world does now find a man who knows, as of old, that this world is a Truth, Nay I cannot believe the like, of any Great Man


id: 16937
title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3), Essay 1: Vauvenargues
author: Morley, John
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  Birth, education, and hard life of Vauvenargues 4 over the world, and Vauvenargues did the same things that young men in Vauvenargues was probably enough of a man of the world to take fair greatness as Vauvenargues, than many years of intercourse with ''The thought of death,'' said Vauvenargues, ''leads us astray, high poetic imagination, which Vauvenargues did not possess, or else Reasonableness is the strongest mark in Vauvenargues'' thinking; balance, Bacon as a moralist and Pascal or Vauvenargues, is the difference Vauvenargues all mean _character_. said that great thoughts come from the heart, but La Rochefoucauld, who inclinations naturally and easily direct our will and actions; virtue is Vauvenargues observed men. ''A man of the world is not he who knows other men best, who has most Vauvenargues felt too seriously about conduct and character to go far in Vauvenargues has a saying to the effect that men very often, without


id: 27597
title: The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  this time for teaching logic.[209] Bentham was set to read Watt''s [201] The main authority for Bentham''s Life is Bowring''s account in the reference to it will show that Bentham by this time took the Voltairean At this time, Bentham says, that his was ''truly a miserable life.''[226] groundless.''[244] Bentham apparently argued that a man who did not like ''rights of man'' and ''equality'' than Bentham''s thoroughly scientific Bentham''s work would supply the principles and the classification. during Peel''s law reforms at this time Bentham frequently communicated general terms that Bentham founded not a doctrine but a method: and that Bentham''s general principles may be very simply stated. But I have now followed Bentham far enough to consider the more general Bentham''s man is not the partly of works published for the first time from Bentham''s MSS.; and Bentham--written between 1786 and 1789, first appeared in the _Works_ Bentham''s principles are sufficiently stated in his published


id: 23640
title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
author: Hubbard, Elbert
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  undeveloped man." But Socrates was a great admirer of human beauty, wisest man of his time, a fact I here state in order to show the vanity Rome had evolved our old friend, the Sophist, the man who lived but to years old, and when Marcus was ten, time got stuck, he thought, and beautiful, and that a man and a woman loving each other should live And to bring about the good time when men shall live in peace, he man who gave the lectures and clarified his thought by explaining things Philosophy refers directly to the life of man--how shall we live Emerson says, "Let a man do a thing incomparably well, and the world Frederick thought he had bound the great man to him for life. Herbert Spencer never wrote a thing more true than this: "The man to man who has ever lived has at times thought so; but to proclaim the


id: 25788
title: The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  In questions of foreign policy, of law reform, of political economy, great social changes which were bringing new classes into political shown, depends upon ''the law of human nature''[85] that ''a man, if ''grand governing law of human nature'' that we desire such power as state, the fact that the theories were held is important. The difference is that Malthus regards evil in general not as a sort population when it follows in its natural order is both a great sole question is,'' says Malthus,[261] ''what is this principle? expansive force of population is, in a sense, the great motive power another thing to explain each set of facts in turn by theories which Ricardo''s doctrine, then, is Malthus carried out more logically. true nature and influence of great social processes, and in practice the others state the first principles embodied in Malthus''s theory of [297] Malthus admits the general principle of free trade, but supports


id: 1051
title: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
author: Carlyle, Thomas
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  The secrets of man''s Life were laid open to thee; thou sawest their New University, imagined they had done enough, if "in times like Of good society Teufelsdrockh appears to have seen little, or has mostly God-created Souls do for the time meet together." To Teufelsdrockh the into mysterious Nature, and the still more mysterious Life of Man. Wonderful it is with what cutting words, now and then, he severs asunder "Happy he who can look through the Clothes of a Man (the woollen, and "Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world We have long felt that, with a man like our Professor, matters must by this means we live; for man must work as well as wonder: and herein Space and Time to their due rank as Forms of Thought; nay even, if thou men, looking and longing and silently working there towards some new


id: 2051
title: Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain''s Wonder
author: Defoe, Daniel
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  son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fiftyeight years; and how, some days before he died, he came to his Speech; published at large by a better hand, I shall only observe in the general, a little, and in a very short time was so far recovered, to the great and, in a short time, my fit will return; and the next day, which I some short observations behind me, and likewise to discover some things 5. Among your principal observations upon human life, let it be always one to take notice what a great deal both of time and ease that man gains The principal business of human life is run through within the short 2. About this time a man with a double head shall arrive in Britain from Europe; but these shall continue but for a short time, and at last


id: 10378
title: Autobiography
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH--MY FATHER''S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS English Government_, a book of great merit for its time, and which he though for a long time only on minor points, and making his opinion and it fixed my opinion and feeling from that time forward. He thought human life a poor thing at best, At this time Mr. Bentham passed some part of every year at Barrow Green House, in a of my father, a tyro in the great subjects of human opinion; but he thought extreme opinions, in politics and philosophy, were weekly much time to write, and when written come, in general, too slowly into opinions on the great subjects of thought, but for proving to his own My father''s tone of thought and feeling, I now felt myself at a great work, at that time, greatly in advance of the public mind), I wrote for


id: 5621
title: Baron d''Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France
author: Cushing, Max Pearson
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  Diderot''s Works, Paris, 1821, Vol. XII p. (Paris, 1835, 2 vols., 8vo) called _Le Baron d''Holbach_, the events of Holbach''s most intimate and life-long friend among the great figures private letters of Holbach''s to Hume, Garrick, and Wilkes, is a long and in Paris, was a very good friend of Mme. Holbach and Mlle. Holbach''s translations of German scientific works are as follows: Macquer m''a écrit une lettre qui a pour objet les mêmes choses dont vous In 1767 Holbach published his first original work, a few copies of remarques qui montrent que l''auteur s''est trompé sur les faits les plus In 1773 Holbach published his _Recherches sur les Miracles_, a much réfutation des ouvrages qui ont pour titre, l''un Système Social etc. une lettre à l''auteur du _Système de la Nature_ par un homme du for Holbach''s English friends mentioned in his letters to


id: 40307
title: The Letters of William James, Vol. 1
author: James, William
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  absorbed in work, went to the door and said "he was sorry Mrs. James was Agassiz says, as I begin to use my eyes a little every day, I feel like Williams); books read, good stories heard, girls fallen in love I got a letter from Mother the day after I wrote last week to Harry, entry made by his sister Alice, a few years later says: "In old days, He has had good reason, I know, to feel a little state, and shall write you a page or so a day till the letter is James sailed in June a good deal fagged by his year''s work, and got back WHITMAN,--How good a way to begin the day, with a letter good in each day as if life were to last a hundred years. He was twelve years James''s senior; a man whose best work was


id: 47588
title: Friedrich Nietzsche
author: Brandes, Georg
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  Friedrich Nietzsche appears to me the most interesting writer in German During a period of eighteen years Nietzsche has written a long series entirely foreign to Wagner, caused Nietzsche to see in the great even bad culture, says Nietzsche; it is barbarism fortified to the best It was a liberating educator of this kind that Nietzsche as a young man In our day Taine''s view has widely gained ground, that the great man is Four of Nietzsche''s early works bear the collective title, _Thoughts Nietzsche attacks the view which regards the historically cultured first book caused Rée to write a second and far more important work on Among Nietzsche''s works there is a strange book which bears the title, This work contains Nietzsche''s doctrine in the form, so to speak, of Nietzsche himself gave this book the highest place among his writings. Nietzsche''s whole life-work as the production of a madman, I call


id: 38091
title: The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
author: James, William
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  "In the course of the year he asked the men each to write some word of in the A.M. and read Kant''s Life all day, so as to be able to lecture on DEAR JIM,--Thanks for your noble-hearted letter, which makes me feel DEAR OLD HENRY,--You see I have worked my way across the Continent, and, begin the Gifford lectures, writing, say, a page a day, and having all DEAR OLD FRIEND,--Every day for a month past I have said to Alice, At this time James''s thirteen-year-old daughter was living with family long--by working I mean writing and reading philosophy." This estimate DEAR HENRY,--Thanks for your letter of the other day, etc. But I''m going to write one book worthy of you, dear Mrs. Agassiz, and of the Thayer expedition, if I am spared a couple of years thoughts and things, and the old-time New England rusticity and


id: 51153
title: The Semantic War
author: Clothier, Bill
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  "Carlson--the Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" And he stared at me "I thought surely you would know For one thing, certain students began to walk on one side of the green sweaters went only to classes in the morning and those in white They said either one thing or the other: THE WISTICK DUFELS THE din could be heard the wild shouts of "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" Registrar''s head, "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy," he said. "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy," he said. past tense said, "The Wistick dufelled the Moraddy." Moraddy will win out." She went on with the preparations for dinner, "Just what does the dufellation of the Wistick by the Moraddy mean?" remember--the Moraddy dufels the Wistick!" And she swept on upstairs to The dufellation of the Wistick and the Moraddy. The dufellation of the Wistick and the Moraddy.


