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" That present and finite objects and motives are capable of producing these effects, is argued as follows : — " When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favorable circumstances of education, the love of country has become, we cannot judge it impossible... "
Reflections of a Russian Statesman - Page 169
by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - 1898 - 271 pages
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Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism

John Stuart Mill - Nature - 1874 - 280 pages
...at all deserved, which has been felt for them by most noble-minded, persons from that time to this. When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favourable circumstances of education, the_loye of jcountry has become, we cannot judge it impossible that the love of that larger country,...
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Religion and Morality

Richard Travers Smith - Apologetics - 1876 - 256 pages
...devotion to a greater country — the world — would be equal to that and far nobler achievements When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favourable...source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty If, then, persons could be trained, as we see they were, not only to believe in theory that the good...
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The Gospel for the Nineteenth Century

Thomas Gribble - 1880 - 488 pages
...still botter calculated to exalt the conduct, than any belief respecting the unseen process. . . . When we consider how ardent a sentiment in favourable...into similar strength, both as a source of elevated emotions, and as a principle of duty. ... If, then, persons could be trained, as we see they were,...
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Science and Sentiment: With Other Papers, Chiefly Philosophical

Noah Porter - Philosophy - 1882 - 528 pages
...producing these effects, is argued as follows : — " When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favorable circumstances of education, the love of country has...source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty." " This exalted morality would not depend for its ascendency on any hope of reward ; but the reward...
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Science and Sentiment: With Other Papers, Chiefly Philosophical

Noah Porter - Philosophy - 1882 - 528 pages
...: — " When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favorable circumstances of education, the lore of country has become, we cannot judge it impossible...source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty." " This exalted morality would not depend for its ascendency on any hope of reward ; but the reward...
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Science and Sentiment: With Other Papers, Chiefly Philosophical

Noah Porter - Philosophy - 1882 - 530 pages
...producing these effects, is argued as follows: — " When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favorable circumstances of education, the love of country has...that the love of that larger country, the world, may bo nursed into similar strength, both as a source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty."...
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Christian Thought, Volume 5

Apologetics - 1888 - 492 pages
...Cicero's De Officiis as justifying the belief that the " love of that larger country, the world, maybe nursed into similar strength, both as a source of elevated emotion and as a principle of character." His language then is as follows : " That any man with the smallest pretensions to virtue...
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The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History, Volume 2

Otto Pfleiderer - Cults - 1887 - 344 pages
...sentiment, under favourable circumstances of education, the love of country became to the ancients, we cannot judge it impossible that the love of that...source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty. A morality grounded on large and wise views of the good of the whole, neither sacrificing the individual...
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A History Of English Utilitarianism

Ernest Albee - 1902 - 450 pages
...which existed for many generations among the Romans, who were otherwise a selfish people, Mill argues that the love of that larger country, the world, may...source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty. As this moral education progresses, men will think less and less of definite personal rewards or punishments,...
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John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity

Linda C. Raeder - Philosophy - 2002 - 418 pages
...likewise wrong, regardless of the motive. 17. For instance, as Mill says in "Utility of Religion": "When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favourable...source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty" (431). 18. Note the identification of interest with happiness, as in Chapter 6 (p. 260). If Mill meant...
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