| Herbert Spencer - Evolution - 1864 - 664 pages
...the agency of both, there can not be those continual re-adaptations which orderly progress demands. < Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency throiigh which character adapts external arrangements to itself— that his opinion rightly forms part... | |
| James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...sympathy." So far, Dr. Franklin's practice and Mr. Spencer's theory are in accord. But, adds Mr. Spencer, " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an unpersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character... | |
| 1865 - 700 pages
...fa-cns-bespiegeling , geen doodsbetrachting.) SPINOZA. ZUTPE N. WJ THTEME EN C»5. 1865. II. Who so ever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it shonld bc too much in advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1870 - 600 pages
...the agency of both, there cannot be those continual re-adaptations which orderly progress demands. Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...through which character adapts external arrangements to itself—that his opinion rightly forms part of this agency—is a unit of force, constituting, with... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1872 - 602 pages
...the agency of both, there cannot be those continual re-adaptations which orderly progress demands. "Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it should bo too much in advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal... | |
| John Morley - Philosophy - 1874 - 238 pages
...accepting the current theology. See his First Principles, pt. i. ch. vi. { 34 ; paragraph beginning, — ' Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...looking at his acts from an impersonal point of view,' etc. were in the fulness of time to supersede. Still less, of course, can a new social state ever establish... | |
| Julia Duhring - Character - 1874 - 376 pages
...pursuance of its object yields to no obstacles less than the calls of humanity or physical exhaustion. " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...lest it should be too much in advance of the time," says Herbert Spencer, " may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal point of view.... | |
| JAMES BRADFORD BABBITT - 1875 - 272 pages
...in questions relating to social philosophy, but those also connected with the physical sciences? " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking upon his acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly recognize the fact that opinion is the... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1876 - 610 pages
...re-adaptations which orderly progress demands. Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highrat truth, lest it should be too much in advance of the...point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opini'in is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that his... | |
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