Isis and Osiris: Or, The Origin of Christianity as a Verification of an Ultimate Law of HistoryLongmans, Green, 1878 - 432 pages |
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accordance Age of Humanity ancient Aspects of Nature Astrogenetic belief causes ception character characteristic Christ Civilisation Classification Coexistence Compare Comte conceived conception of Causation conception of Truth consciousness consider correlative deduction defined differentiation distinguished divine doctrines Egypt Egyptian Egyptian Mythology endeavour existence explanation fact forces further generalisation Hegel hence historical theory Hume hypothesis Ibid Ideal ideas implied Inductive influence integration intellectual Jesus Kant Karnak Law of History Law of Thought least Logic mental Metaphysics Method mind modern Monotheism moral Mutual Determination myths Naturianism Neo-Platonism Neo-Platonists Onesided Determination origin of Christianity Osirianism Osiris phenomena Philo Philosophie positive Philosophy of History physical Polity postulate primæval principle Proximate Principles realise relations of things religion remarks Revolution scientific Second Age Secret of Hegel Sect sensations sequence social speculation spirit Spiritist supernatural theory of Causation Third Age tion transformation true Ultimate Law verifiable
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Page 199 - There is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man ; and there is none, which can be decided with any certainty, before we become acquainted with that science.
Page 196 - The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld ; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing ono species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our...
Page 149 - We may define, therefore, the cause of a phenomenon, to be the antecedent, or the concurrence of antecedents, on which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.
Page 362 - is a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark which may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought we had before, and which being pronounced to others, may be to them a sign of what thought the speaker had •(• before in his mind.
Page 261 - Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean ; the world has grown grey from thy breath ; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fulness of death.
Page 37 - Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last, not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one.
Page 403 - Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day : because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Page 65 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 187 - Wolff, and which was put into a definite shape by Von Baer — the truth that all organic development is a change from a state of homogeneity to a state of heterogeneity — this it is from which very many of the conclusions which I now hold, have indirectly resulted.
Page 218 - BC, we can do so only under the supposition that during the early periods of history the growth of the human mind was more luxuriant than in later times, and that the layers of thought were formed less slowly in the primary than in the tertiary ages of the world.