Comte realised so fully as he has done all the majesty of which that idea is susceptible. It ascends into the unknown recesses of the past, embraces the manifold present, and descends into the indefinite and unforeseeable future. Forming a collective... The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte - Page 122by John Stuart Mill - 1866 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Goodman Croly - Positivism - 1871 - 158 pages
...future. " Ascending into the unknown recesses ot the past, embracing the manifold present, and descending into the indefinite and unforeseeable future, forming...Infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature," so says Mr. Mill ; and another authority adds : " We may still further admit that all morality may... | |
| John Fiske - 1874 - 1188 pages
...that " ascending into the unknown recesses of the past, embracing the manifold present, and descending into the indefinite and unforeseeable future, forming...Infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature." We may still further admit that all morality may be summed up in the disinterested service of the human... | |
| John Fiske - Evolution - 1874 - 540 pages
...that " ascending into the unknown recesses of the past, embracing the manifold present, and descending into the indefinite and unforeseeable future, forming...Infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature." We may still further admit that all morality may be summed up in the disinterested service of the human... | |
| John Fiske - Evolution - 1874 - 562 pages
...that "ascending into the unknown recesses of the past, embracing the manifold present, and descending into the indefinite and unforeseeable future, forming...Infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature." We may still further admit that all morality may be summed up in the disinterested service of the human... | |
| John Fiske - Evolution - 1875 - 538 pages
...that "ascending into the unknown recesses of the past, embracing the manifold present, and descending into the indefinite and unforeseeable future, forming...Infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature." We may still further admit that all morality may be summed up in the disinterested service of the human... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1877 - 572 pages
...his praise of Positive religion by endowing its supreme Being with the attribute of Infinity ; since> forming a collective existence without assignable...feeling of the Infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature.1 Precisely so. But the Infinite is the unconditioned : and the unconditioned is that region... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1877 - 568 pages
...his praise of Positive religion by endowing its supreme Being with the attribute of Infinity ; since, forming a collective existence without assignable...feeling of the Infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature.1 Precisely so. But the Infinite is the unconditioned : and the unconditioned is that region... | |
| Criticism - 1884 - 928 pages
...Review, May, 1881, p. 434. cf. p. 437. + Introduction to the Science of Religion, p. 287. definite and unforeseeable future. Forming a collective Existence...the imposingness of all our highest conceptions."* At the same time, as Mill himself notices, and as Comte frequently asserts, the Grand Etre is not to... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1884 - 872 pages
...Princeton Review, May, 1881, p. 434, cf . p. 437. t Introduction to the Science of Religion, p. 287. and unforeseeable future. Forming a collective Existence...the imposingness of all our highest conceptions."* At the same time, as Mill himself notices, and as Comte frequently asserts, the Grand Etre is not to... | |
| W. R. Washington Sullivan - Conduct of life - 1898 - 312 pages
...and as a motive to conduct, many have perceived ; but we know not if any one before Comte realised so fully as he has done all the majesty of which that...to the imposingness of all our highest conceptions. However, we must now endeavour to briefly trace ' the steps whereby Comte arrived at what certainly... | |
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