 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It...incapable of imagining to himself annihilation ; existing bnt in the future and the past; being, not what he is, but vrhat he has been and shall be. Whatever... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It...wander through eternity, disclaiming alliance with transcience and decay, incapable of imagining to himself annihilation ; existing but in the future... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...answer ; contenting ourselves here with discerning, that " Man is a being of lofty aspirations, looking before and after, whose thoughts wander through eternity,...disclaiming alliance with transience and decay."* The strong sense ire hare of God in vf, Makes us believe the soul can never cease. f This, which we... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 pages
...materialism that at one time attracted him was early effaced from his mind. " I was discontented," he says, " with such a view of things as it afforded ; man is...alliance with transience and decay ; incapable of imaging to himself annihilation ; existing but in the future and in the past , being, not what he is,... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 380 pages
...materialism that at one time attracted him was early effaced from his mind. " I was discontented," he says, " with such a view of things as it afforded ; man is...alliance with transience and decay ; incapable of imaging to himself annihilation ; existing but in the future and in the past ; being, not what he is,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge paintings - 1874 - 584 pages
...dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It...decay ; incapable of imagining to himself annihilation ; exiting but in the future and the past ; being, not what ho is, but what he has been and shall be.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1884 - 148 pages
...condemned in a couple of sentences by himself, written in some after year. " This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It...disciples to talk, and dispenses them from thinking." These words are from his fragment " On Life," and allude to his own early materialism. " Alastor,"... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Authors, English - 1886 - 584 pages
...dogmatism concerning the soure of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It allows its disciples to talk, and dispenses theni from thinking. But I was discontented with such a view uf things as it afforded. Man is a being... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1887 - 592 pages
...dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It...afforded. Man is a being of high aspirations, ' looking before and after,' whose ' thoughts wander through eternity,' disclaiming alliance with transience... | |
 | Félix Rabbe - 1888 - 330 pages
...dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It...thinking. But I was discontented with such a view of life as it afforded ; man is a being of high aspirations " looking both before and after," whose "... | |
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The shocking absurdities of the popular philosophy of mind and matter, its fatal consequences in morals, and their violent dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young... 
