The Book of the New Moral World: Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society |
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according acquire acter action animals arise arrangements attain become rational beneficial birth to death cause character circum compelled compound consequence created cultivated cumstances direct discover disunion earth effects elements of human engendered enjoyment error evident evil existence external cir external circumstances facts and laws falsehood favourable feelings and convictions fellow-men formation formed FUNDAMENTAL FACT govern happiness harmony HARVARD COLLEGE hitherto human nature human race ignorance imagination impressions individual infancy inferior influence of external injurious intellectual faculties irrational kind known law of human laws of nature live mankind manner maturity mental feelings misery moral feelings Moral Science MORAL WORLD natural faculties nature's laws necessary opposed opposition original constitution permanent physical and mental physical feelings possess practice present principles produce propensities proportions qualities receive religions ROBERT OWEN ROBINSON & CO SECTION sensations society stances thoughts tion trained truth unfavourable union unison vidual wealth whole
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Page 43 - Graeco-Egyptian mathematician and geographer who believed that the earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun and planets revolved around it.
Page 1 - That man is a compound being, whose character is formed of his constitution or organization at birth, and of the effects of external circumstances upon it, from birth to death ; such original organization and external influences continually acting and reacting each upon the other.
Page xix - Each individual is so organized, that his highest health, his greatest progressive improvement, and his permanent happiness, depend upon the due cultivation of all his physical, intellectual, and moral faculties, or elements of his nature; upon their being called into action at a proper period of life; and being afterwards temperately exercised, according to his strength and capacity.
Page 27 - Each individual is so organized, that he must like that which is pleasant to him, or which, in other words, produces agreeable sensations in him; and dislike that which is unpleasant to him, or which, in other words, produces in him disagreeable sensations; and he cannot know previous to experience, what particular sensations new objects will produce on any one of his senses.
Page 29 - Nature, when allowed to take its course, through the whole life of organized beings, produces the desire to combine or unite with those objects with which it is the best for them to unite, and to remain united with them as long as it is the most beneficial for their well-being and happiness that they should continue together ; and Nature is the only correct judge in determining her own laws. It is man alone who has disobeyed this law...
Page 3 - Each individual is so organized, that he is made to receive a superior character, when his original constitution contains the best proportion of the elements of human nature, and when the circumstances which surround him from birth, and through life, are of a character to produce superior sensations...
Page 2 - Each individual is so organized that, when young, he may be made to receive either true ideas, derived from a knowledge of facts, or false notions, derived from the imagination, and in opposition to facts.
Page 1 - That, nevertheless, the constitution of every infant, except in case of organic disease, is capable of being formed or matured either into a very inferior, or a very superior being, according to the qualities of the external circumstances allowed to influence that constitution from birth.
Page 32 - ... exist or ever did exist ; and in consequence all the mythology of the ancients, and all the religions of the moderns are mere fanciful notions of men, whose imaginations have been cultivated to accord with existing prejudices, and whose judgments have been systematically destroyed from their birth. There is no practical advantage to be derived from the supposition that the power of the universe is an organized being, or that it should be personified in any manner whatever...
Page 1 - That his feelings, or his convictions, or both of them united, create the motive to action called the will, which stimulates him to act, and decide his actions." "4th. - That the organization of no two human beings is ever precisely similar at birth, nor can art subsequently form any two individuals from infancy to maturity, to be the same.