 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 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... | |
 | 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...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opini'in is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Augustus Blauvelt - Free thought - 1882 - 212 pages
...recall no more noble and stimulating words in which we may conclude than these by Herbert Spencer: "Whoever hesitates to utter that which h'e thinks...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... | |
 | 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...character adapts external arrangements to itself — that hie opinion rightly forms part of this agency — is a unit of force, constituting with other such... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1885 - 520 pages
...observation such passages as the following — the italics are my own : — Whoever hesitates to utter what he thinks the highest truth, lest it should be too...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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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... 
