On Right and WrongChapman and Hall, 1890 - 284 pages |
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A. H. CHURCH absolute action agreeable feeling animal assuredly BARNABY RUDGE cause century chapter CHARLES DICKENS Christian civilisation cloth conception conscience consciousness Data of Ethics DAVID COPPERFIELD Demy 8vo doctrine DOMBEY AND SON duty eternal evil existence experience fact faculty force Forty Illustrations Herbert Spencer HISTORY human Huxley's idea ideal Illustrations by Phiz individual instinct jurisprudence justice Kant labour Large crown 8vo liberty Lilly LITTLE DORRIT man's marriage MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT Materialism Materialist matter means merely metaphysical mind moral law nations necessity numerous Illustrations numerous Woodcuts obligation observed OLD CURIOSITY SHOP organism personality phenomena philosophy Phiz physical science PICKWICK PAPERS pleasure political Portrait present principle Professor Huxley psychical punishment question realised reason religion Revolution right and wrong rule sense SKETCHES BY BOZ social society Spencer spiritual supreme teaching tell things thought tion transcendental Translated true truth universal virtue volition vols Woodcuts words writes
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Page 183 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a "property" in his own " person." This nobody has any right to but himself. The " labour" of his body and the " work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 167 - When a man writes to the world, he summons up all his reason and deliberation to assist him; he searches, meditates, is industrious, and likely consults and confers with his judicious friends, after all which done he takes himself to be informed in what he writes, as well as any that writ before him.
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Page 114 - We are all born in subjection, all born equally, high and low, governors and governed, in subjection to one great, immutable, pre-existent law, prior to all our devices, and prior to all our contrivances, paramount to all our ideas and all our sensations, antecedent to our very existence, by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the universe, out of which we cannot stir.
Page 115 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
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Page 56 - ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing without excuse.
Page 71 - To make my position fully understood, it seems needful to add that, corresponding to the fundamental propositions of a developed Moral Science, there have been, and still are, developing in the race, certain fundamental moral intuitions ; and that, though these moral intuitions are the results of accumulated experiences of Utility, gradually organized and inherited, they have come to be quite independent of conscious experience.
Page 136 - ... given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred; that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all. the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.
Page 71 - I believe that the experiences of utility organised and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.