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" Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that his opinion rightly forms part of this agency — is a unit of force, constituting, with other such units, the general power... "
The Evolution of Man: His Religious Systems and Social Customs - Page v
by William Wright Hardwicke - 1899 - 300 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18

American essays - 1866 - 808 pages
...deepest convictions, in a passage instinct with nobleness of thought and dignity of utterance: — " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact, that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to...
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1862 - 528 pages
...the agency of both, there cannot he those continual re-adaptations which orderly progress demands. Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 22

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1863 - 878 pages
...through which character adapts external arrangements to itself; and therefore no one should hesitate to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it should be too much in advance of the time. The utterance of intelligent convictions by the thinkers of any age, is a kind of necessity, — a...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 538 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...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to...
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Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2

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...
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De Levensbode, Part 1

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...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Great Britain - 1867 - 972 pages
...the good temper they have displayed therein. ES HUMAN DUTT IN JiEu.Mti) то ПТГМАК OPINION.— Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to...
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - Evolution - 1867 - 608 pages
...re-adaptations which orderly progress demands. Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the high- . est truth, lest it should be too much in advance of the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

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...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to...
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 pages
...Without the agency of both, there cannot be those continual readaptations which orderly progress demands. Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to...
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