 The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid...  Autobiography - Page 226by John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Emile Honoré Cazelles - 1875 - 198 pages
...these times the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief and every intense...devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices." Mr. Spencer, on the contrary, held that the intuitionalists are right in this, that the ideas, feelings,... | |
 | John Morley - 1877 - 468 pages
...these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling...all-sufficient voucher and justification. There never was an instrument better devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices. And the chief strength of... | |
 | 1878 - 616 pages
...these times, the great intellectual support of falso doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief and every intense...of justifying itself by reason, and is erected into his own all-sufficient voucher and justification. There never was such an instrument devised Cor consecrating... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 604 pages
...institutions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling, the origin of which is not remembered, is enabled to dispense with the...never was such an instrument devised for consecrating deep seated prejudices."* Accordingly in his Logic he asserts that all the so called principles of... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 598 pages
...inveterate belief and every intense feeling, the origin of which is not remembered, is enabled to disjiense with the obligation of justifying itself by reason,...never was such an instrument devised for consecrating deep seated prejudices."* Accordingly in his Logic he asserts that all the so called principles of... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 618 pages
...institutions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every iutense feeling, the origin of which is not remembered, is enabled to dispense with the...and is erected into its own all-sufficient voucher aud justification. There never was such an instrument devised for consecrating deep seated prejudices."*... | |
 | William George Ward - 1884 - 438 pages
...these times the great intellectual support of fulse doctrines and bad intentions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling,...reason, and is erected into its own all-sufficient justification. There never was sueh an instrument devised for consecrating all deepseated prejudices."... | |
 | William George Ward - 1884 - 430 pages
...p. 278 ; and in p. 226 he declares, that " the chief strength " of the philosophy which he assails "in morals, politics, and religion, lies in the appeal which it is accustomed to make to the eviJ.ence of mathematics and the cognate branches of physical science." " To keep it from these," he... | |
 | William George Ward - 1884 - 410 pages
...these times the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad intentions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling, of which the origin is not remembered, ia enabled to dispense with the obligation of justifying itself by reason, and is erected into its... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1892 - 760 pages
...these times the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad insti'.itions. By the aid of this theory every inveterate belief and every intense feeling,...voucher and justification. There never was such an instrumen t devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices." We appreciate the cause of Mr. Mill's... | |
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