Course of the History of Modern Philosophy, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1856 |
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Page 112 - ... so far as he is substance, that is to say, being absolute cause, one and many, eternity and time, space and number, essence and life, indivisibility and totality, principle, end and centre, at the summit of Being and at its lowest degree, infinite and finite...
Page 332 - It is the process by which the mind is elevated from the particular to the general, from the known to the unknown...
Page 9 - Two thousand auditors listened in admiration to the eloquent exposition of doctrines unintelligible to the many, and the oral discussion of philosophy awakened in Paris, and in France, an interest unexampled since the days of Abelard. The daily journals found it necessary to gratify, by their earlier...
Page 35 - When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East, above all, those of India which are beginning to spread in Europe, we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which the European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
Page 105 - ... indefinite manifestations, which reveal it, and which veil it; and, further, as it has been said, it comprehends it so far as incomprehensible. It is, therefore, an equal error to call God absolutely comprehensible, and absolutely incomprehensible. He is both invisible and present, revealed and withdrawn in himself, in the world and out of the world, so familiar and intimate with his creatures, that we see him by opening our eyes, that we feel him in feeling our hearts beat, and at the same time...
Page 160 - This necessity, which the vulgar accuse, which they confound with external and physical fatality, and by which they designate and disfigure the divine Wisdom, applied to the world, this necessity is the unanswerable demonstration of the intervention of Providence in human affairs, the demonstration of a moral government of the world. Great events are the decrees of this government, promulgated by the voice of time. History is the manifestation of God's supervision of humanity ; the judgments of history...
Page 74 - ... element of intelligence in a prominent portion of mankind ; and as there are only three such elements, so there are only three grand epochs in the history of man. A knowledge of the elements of reason, of their relations and of their laws, constitutes not merely Philosophy, but is the condition of a History of Philosophy. The history of human reason, or the history of philosophy, must be rational and philosophic. It must...
Page 35 - When we read the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East, — above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe — we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which...
Page 169 - Undoubtedly, the relation of man and nature is not a relation of effect to cause, but man and nature are the great effects which, coming from the same cause, bear the same characters ; so that the earth and he who inhabits it, man and nature, are in perfect harmony." — COUSIN'S History of Philosophy, sect, viii., second series. Napoleon deduced the whole history of Italy from the Italian terrritory. closer to that, read the design of our social education and development in the Human Body. What...
Page 31 - ... shines for a day, and is extinguished forever, or stops at biography. Nothing endures, except that which is necessary : and history occupies itself only with that which endures ; with that which, while enduring, organizes itself, develops itself, and arrives at an historical existence. Therefore, as human nature is the matter and the base of history, history is, so to speak, the judge of human nature, and historical analysis is the counter-proof of psychological analysis. For example, if by psychological...