The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 52A. Constable, 1831 |
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Page 43
... animals . But mankind can trace their history no farther back than 6000 years - a small speck in eternity . Shall we conclude , as some have done , that the solar system was brought into existence only about 6000 years ago ? Or did it ...
... animals . But mankind can trace their history no farther back than 6000 years - a small speck in eternity . Shall we conclude , as some have done , that the solar system was brought into existence only about 6000 years ago ? Or did it ...
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... animals which they contain . The attention of Mr Smith was drawn towards these fossils ; and he soon observed that certain rocks were dis- tinguished by peculiar fossils contained in them , while other rocks , though in the same ...
... animals which they contain . The attention of Mr Smith was drawn towards these fossils ; and he soon observed that certain rocks were dis- tinguished by peculiar fossils contained in them , while other rocks , though in the same ...
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... animals . These bones were collected and carefully examined by Cuvier , whose profound knowledge of comparative anatomy enabled him to arrange them according to the species and genera , and to make out and classify the different animals ...
... animals . These bones were collected and carefully examined by Cuvier , whose profound knowledge of comparative anatomy enabled him to arrange them according to the species and genera , and to make out and classify the different animals ...
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... animals , at present confined to the torrid zones , in the polar regions , to a change of the axis of the earth , how convenient soever it might be to explain the phenomena , must be at once abandoned as inconsistent with the ...
... animals , at present confined to the torrid zones , in the polar regions , to a change of the axis of the earth , how convenient soever it might be to explain the phenomena , must be at once abandoned as inconsistent with the ...
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... animal bodies , they serve to fix an- other element in the history of this globe . At first , it was destitute both of animals and vegetables ; and certain alterations , visible in the primary rocks , must have taken place before the ...
... animal bodies , they serve to fix an- other element in the history of this globe . At first , it was destitute both of animals and vegetables ; and certain alterations , visible in the primary rocks , must have taken place before the ...
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Page 373 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 231 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry...
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Page 307 - ... the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than that of independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error.
Page 204 - Do you disclaim this principle, in order to embrace a more rational opinion, that the perceptions are only representations of something external? You here depart from your natural propensities and more obvious sentiments ; and yet are not able to satisfy your reason, which can never find any convincing argument from experience to prove, that the perceptions are connected with any external objects.
Page 389 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Page 511 - Of the origin of evil no universal solution has been discovered. I mean no solution which reaches to all cases of complaint. — The consideration of general laws, although it may concern the question of the origin of evil very nearly, which I think it does, rests in views disproportionate to our faculties, and in a knowledge which we do not possess. It serves rather to account for the obscurity of the subject, than to supply us with distinct answers to our difficulties.
Page 189 - ... the brain ; but, that he never supposed it to have an existence apart from the mental energy of which it is the object. Locke, he asserts, like Arnauld, considered the idea perceived and the percipient act, to constitute the same indivisible modification of the conscious mind. We shall see. In his language, Locke is, of all philosophers, the most figurative, ambiguous, vacillating, various, and even contradictory...
Page 235 - I pity, from my soul, unhappy men, Compelled by want to prostitute their pen; Who must, like lawyers, either starve or plead, And follow, right or wrong, where guineas lead!
Page 170 - Brown's transmutation of Reid from a natural to a hypothetical realist, as a misconception of the grand and distinctive tenet of a school, by one even of its disciples, is without a parallel in the whole history of philosophy : and this portentous error is prolific; chimeera chimceram par it.