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Page xlv - ... it must be determined by the formal principle of volition when an action is done from duty, in which case every material principle has been withdrawn from it.
Page 23 - His spirit was a battle-field, upon which, with fluctuating fortune and singular intensity, the powers of belief and scepticism waged, from first to last, their unceasing war ; and within the compass of his experience are presented to our view most of the great moral and spiritual problems that attach to the condition of our race.
Page lvi - The former view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates as it were my importance as an animal creature...
Page xliii - To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or selfinterest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain...
Page 24 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems ; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling ; brooding over the abysses of Being ; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror : a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
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Page 24 - ... or terror ; a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls.
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Page lxxv - He was the Gog and he was the Magog of Hunnish desolation to the existing schemes of philosophy. He probed them; he showed the vanity of vanities which besieged their foundations, : — the rottenness below, the hollowness above. But he had no instincts of creation or restoration within his Apollyon mind ; for he had no love, no faith, no self-distrust, no humility, no childlike docility ; all which qualities belonged essentially to Coleridge's mind, and waited only for manhood and for sorrow to...
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| Title | The Philosophy of Kant: Lectures The Philosophy of Kant, A. G. Henderson The Philosophy of Kant: Lectures, A. G. Henderson |
| Author | Victor Cousin |
| Editor | A. G. Henderson |
| Translated by | A. G. Henderson |
| Publisher | J. Chapman, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 194 pages |
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