Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1908 - Ethics, Evolutionary |
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A Study in Comparative Ethics Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. MORALS IN EVOLUTION BY THE SAME AUTHOR MIND IN EVOLUTION . Price 10s.
A Study in Comparative Ethics Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. MORALS IN EVOLUTION BY THE SAME AUTHOR MIND IN EVOLUTION . Price 10s.
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A Study in Comparative Ethics Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. BY THE SAME AUTHOR MIND IN EVOLUTION . Price 10s . net . MACMILLAN & CO . THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE : A contribution to some problems of Logic and Metaphysics . Price 10s . 6d . net .
A Study in Comparative Ethics Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. BY THE SAME AUTHOR MIND IN EVOLUTION . Price 10s . net . MACMILLAN & CO . THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE : A contribution to some problems of Logic and Metaphysics . Price 10s . 6d . net .
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... Mind in Humanity developing towards a conscious realization of its own powers of growth as the central principle of Ethics . ( 8 ) The rule of life is action along the developmental lines which constitutes permanent happiness . ( 9 ) ...
... Mind in Humanity developing towards a conscious realization of its own powers of growth as the central principle of Ethics . ( 8 ) The rule of life is action along the developmental lines which constitutes permanent happiness . ( 9 ) ...
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... mind as the dwelling - place or the manifestation , as the case may be , of a spiritual agency which controls their ... minds the very type of the inanimate . Jevons ( History of Religion , pp . 131-144 ) inclines to think that it is in ...
... mind as the dwelling - place or the manifestation , as the case may be , of a spiritual agency which controls their ... minds the very type of the inanimate . Jevons ( History of Religion , pp . 131-144 ) inclines to think that it is in ...
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... mind is put to some trouble on the point , and sometimes the difficulty seems to have been the cause of scepticism . The question 1 Payne , i . , P. 391 . 2 Reclus , Primitive Folk , 301–303 . 3 De Groot ( iv . , p . 106 ) has a good ...
... mind is put to some trouble on the point , and sometimes the difficulty seems to have been the cause of scepticism . The question 1 Payne , i . , P. 391 . 2 Reclus , Primitive Folk , 301–303 . 3 De Groot ( iv . , p . 106 ) has a good ...
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Page 122 - Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Page 125 - Behold, all souls are Mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 166 - If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. "If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good.
Page 125 - And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment...
Page 124 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 125 - He was oppressed, yet he humbled himself and opened not his mouth ; As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; yea, he opened not his mouth.
Page 169 - Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all ? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
Page 112 - Just, Vasettha, as a mighty trumpeter makes himself heard — and that without difficulty — in all the four directions; even so of all things that have shape or life, there is not one that he passes by or leaves aside, but regards them all with mind set free, and deep-felt pity, sympathy, and equanimity. 'Verily this, Vasettha, is the way to a state of union with Brahma.
Page 112 - And he lets his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of pity, sympathy, and equanimity, and so the second, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, around, and everywhere, does he continue to pervade with heart of pity, sympathy, and equanimity, far-reaching, grown great, and beyond measure.
Page 125 - ... he that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.