The Moral Gulph Betwixt Man and the Brute: an EssayMacmillan & Company, 1866 - 54 стор. |
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abstraction absurd actions agreement or disagreement amongst animals attention average brute aversion to misery beast believe birds brute creation Burney cause chapter Christ's College civilized complex ideas conceive conscience defect degree deny direct revelation discern duties EMMANUEL COLLEGE endeavour Essay existence external objects faculty of reason fewer or duller habits idea of whiteness ideas of reflection ideas of sensation inasmuch incline innate ideas innate principles instance intel internal ideas intuitive knowledge kind language Locke man's mental faculties mind modes of thinking MORAL GULPH BETWIXT moral rules motives nation natural affection natural desires natural instinct ness never observed opinion perceptive faculty possessed practical principles practise morality proof propositions prove reasoning faculties recollection remembrance revelation savage self-preservation senses sight simple ideas society solitary Solitary confinement sound species suppose tain thing tion universal assent UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE urged Vice-Chancellor W. E. Gladstone whilst words young
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Сторінка 13 - Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can...
Сторінка 28 - If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.
Сторінка 47 - ... is owing to our neglect of the wise and prudent means which man ought to find in the just exercise of his faculties for the avoidance of calamity; but with respect to wars, they are the direct and universal consequence of the unrestricted, too commonly of the unbridled, passions and lusts of men. If we go back to a very early period of society, we find a state of things in which, as between one individual and another, no law obtained — a state of things in which the first idea almost of those...