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Page vii
... Creation constituted in harmony with the whole faculties of Man 22 CHAPTER II . MAN'S ADAPTATION TO NATURE . The constitution of Man compared with that of the brutes : quotation from Bishop Butler . I. Man considered as a physical being ...
... Creation constituted in harmony with the whole faculties of Man 22 CHAPTER II . MAN'S ADAPTATION TO NATURE . The constitution of Man compared with that of the brutes : quotation from Bishop Butler . I. Man considered as a physical being ...
Page viii
... creation must accord with Man's whole faculties , and he must be capable of learning and obeying them . CHAPTER V. THE NATURAL LAWS AND HUMAN LIFE . A system of life and occupation proposed Why has Man hitherto fallen so far short of ...
... creation must accord with Man's whole faculties , and he must be capable of learning and obeying them . CHAPTER V. THE NATURAL LAWS AND HUMAN LIFE . A system of life and occupation proposed Why has Man hitherto fallen so far short of ...
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... office to check excess in the progress of life , and maintain the balance of creation . " Thus it is admitted by the most esteemed authorities that death and reproduction formed parts of the order of 2 [ INT . THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN .
... office to check excess in the progress of life , and maintain the balance of creation . " Thus it is admitted by the most esteemed authorities that death and reproduction formed parts of the order of 2 [ INT . THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN .
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... creation . The other hypothesis is that the world was perfect at first , but fell into derangement , continues in disorder , and can be rectified only by supernatural means . If the former view be sound , an important object of Man , as ...
... creation . The other hypothesis is that the world was perfect at first , but fell into derangement , continues in disorder , and can be rectified only by supernatural means . If the former view be sound , an important object of Man , as ...
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... creation , and , as will afterwards be shown , the means of discipline and improvement are afforded to all the human faculties . The moral and intellectual laws also have an independent operation . From an attentive study of our ...
... creation , and , as will afterwards be shown , the means of discipline and improvement are afforded to all the human faculties . The moral and intellectual laws also have an independent operation . From an attentive study of our ...
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according action activity adapted animal faculties animal propensities appears arranged ascer benevolence bestowed body brain Cassell's causes cloth condition conduct consequences constitution creation Creator death desire discover disease Divine duty effects enjoy enjoyment evil exercise existence external objects feelings GEORGE COMBE gilt gratification happiness harmony higher sentiments ignorance Illustrated improvement individual inflict infringement instance institutions intellectual faculties intellectual laws intelligent intuitive knowledge JULIAN HAWTHORNE knowledge labour laws of nature live lower animals mankind marriage ment mind misery moral and intellectual moral law moral sentiments nations natural laws natural philosophy neglect obedience obey observation offender offspring operation organic laws organised pain parents perceive persons philosophy Phrenology physical laws pleasure possess practical present principle propen punishment qualities race regard relations religion render ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON selfish ship society suffering supremacy T. P. O'CONNOR tion transmitted vessels of wrath views vigour Vols W. W. GREENER
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.