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... happiness , and infringement of them leads to the appropriate punishment . The system of Phrenology which the author incorpo- rated with his ethical teaching has been to many readers a hindrance rather than a help . The Editor has there ...
... happiness , and infringement of them leads to the appropriate punishment . The system of Phrenology which the author incorpo- rated with his ethical teaching has been to many readers a hindrance rather than a help . The Editor has there ...
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... happiness ? 69 Has happiness increased in proportion to increase of knowledge ? 74 Individual happiness greatly dependent on that of the mass The experience of past ages no conclusive reason for despair civilisation in the future . of ...
... happiness ? 69 Has happiness increased in proportion to increase of knowledge ? 74 Individual happiness greatly dependent on that of the mass The experience of past ages no conclusive reason for despair civilisation in the future . of ...
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... Happiness from harmonious activity of the mental faculties Misery from their discordant action The attributes of God seem highest to those best acquainted with His works Advantages from observance of the Moral Law Futility of the notion ...
... Happiness from harmonious activity of the mental faculties Misery from their discordant action The attributes of God seem highest to those best acquainted with His works Advantages from observance of the Moral Law Futility of the notion ...
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... happiness and joy ; but more frequently clouds and darkness brood over the scene , and disappoint his fondest expectations . Nature is never contemplated by him with a clear perception of its adaptation to promote the enjoyment of the ...
... happiness and joy ; but more frequently clouds and darkness brood over the scene , and disappoint his fondest expectations . Nature is never contemplated by him with a clear perception of its adaptation to promote the enjoyment of the ...
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... happiness ; that , nevertheless , Man has hitherto been ignorant of his nature and of its relations ; and that , in consequence , his modes of life have never been to adopted from enlightened views of his whole qualities and capacities ...
... happiness ; that , nevertheless , Man has hitherto been ignorant of his nature and of its relations ; and that , in consequence , his modes of life have never been to adopted from enlightened views of his whole qualities and capacities ...
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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.