 Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...  The Chinese Repository - Page 4edited by - 1839Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...legislation, in politics, in morals. Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine — Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind. It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...proposed to himself, was the multiplying of human enjoyments, and the mitigating of human sufferings. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind. It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...legislation, in politics, in morals. Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine — utility and progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind. It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 pages
...in politics, in morals. Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, — Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind. It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...proposed to himself was the multiplying of human enjoyments and the mitigating of human sufferings. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind. It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...legislation, in politics, in morals. Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind. It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...that philosophy was its direct antagonism to all that had previously existed under the same name. " The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress — he thought the '... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...Bacon's philosophy was its direct opposition to all that had previously existed under the same name. " The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress ; he thought the fruit... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...Bacon's philosophy was its direct opposition to all that had previously existed under the same name. " The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and...sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress ; he thought the fruit... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...legislation, in politics, in morals. Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine — utility and progress. nations is therefore inblime that they never could be more than theories ; in attempts to solve insoluble enigmas ; in exhortations... | |
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