 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1877 - 608 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...of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion ia the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself—that his opinion rightly... | |
 | Gaetano Trezza - Criticism - 1880 - 360 pages
...corrispondono col tempo storico: « Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest trulh, lesi it should be too much in advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking at bis acts from an impersonal point of che sentono il tempo, si dice un grande concetto. ma non vi si... | |
 | Science - 1884 - 536 pages
...Without the agency of both there cannot be those continual re-adaptions which orderly progress requires. Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Willard - Social reformers - 1889 - 804 pages
...minds of our own or any age. They may cheer you in this battle-hour as they have strengthened me : " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...lest it should be too much in advance of the time, * * * * must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Civilization - 1890 - 444 pages
...with which Mr. Spencer concludes the first part of his " First Principles of Philosophy," he says : " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly recognize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Sociology - 1891 - 322 pages
...Spencer has put the bearing of this on conduct with a somewhat noteworthy deprecatoriness : — f " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly • realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts I external arrangements... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Humanism - 1891 - 294 pages
...the bearing of this on conduct with a somewhat noteworthy deprecatoriness : — " Whoever hesitatea to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1892 - 656 pages
...the agency of hoth, there cannot be those continual re-adaptations which orderly progress demands. Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opin-• ion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that... | |
 | Mrs. Louisa Burns Chapin - Businessmen - 1893 - 128 pages
...views. Those who known, advance new truths generally have to suffer for them. He fully believed, that " whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...lest it should be too much in advance of the time, . . . must remember that, while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and... | |
 | Grant Allen - English fiction - 1895 - 264 pages
...has Herbert Spencer for those who venture to see otherwise than the mass of their contemporaries ? ' Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
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Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it should be too much in advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal point of view. 
