... 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. The Princeton Review - Стр. 6311879Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Thomas Reid - 1863 - Страниц: 542
...THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. " He haili thcwed thee, O Man, what Ugood."— Micm. HAWRD COLLEGE LIBRAHX ON EARTH, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN; IN MAN, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. ESSAYS ON TUB ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN, BY THOMAS REID, DD, FRSE, PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE... | |
| Robert Anchor Thompson - 1863 - Страниц: 922
...concourse of atoms. But this is only the beginning of its difficulty. Man is the wonder of creation. " In earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." Such, however, is not the doctrine of the atheist. He must rob the mind of every thing that makes it... | |
| James Pyle Wickersham - 1864 - Страниц: 402
...from the brutes that perish, is his mind; and it is mostly with this that the teacher is concerned. If "On earth, there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind," how transcendently great is the teacher's work! The education of a human soul ! The training of an... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1864 - Страниц: 150
...Mind ; " and Sir William Hamilton's well-known motto, prefixed to his edition of Reid's works, was, " On earth there is nothing great but Man ; in Man there is nothing great but Mind." Pervaded with the good impression these passages convey, and remembering, with Fenelon, that, though... | |
| James Pyle Wickersham - 1864 - Страниц: 412
...from the brutes that perish, is his mind; and it is mostly with this that the teacher is concerned. If "On earth, there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind," how transcendently great is the teacher's work! The education of a human soul! The training of an immortal... | |
| John Watts - 1865 - Страниц: 206
...gold of the prizemen of past sessions, and the suggestive motto above the professor's chair — • " On earth there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mind." The professor enters, already endeared to his students by his ancient and renowned lineage, and by... | |
| Samuel Gosnell Green - 1865 - Страниц: 312
...himself. There is in all this a kind of chain reaching from earth to heaven. As a wise man has said, " On earth there is nothing great but man : in man there is nothing great but the soul." But I think we should add, "In the soul there is nothing great but goodness." This is what... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - Страниц: 540
... 5 • LECTUKES METAPHYSICS AND LOGIC ON EARTH, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN ; IN MAN, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BDT MINI). METAPHYSICS AND LOGIC BY SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART. PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - Страниц: 1222
...different points of view, is signalised by other thinkers. An ancient philosopher has finely said : — " On earth, there is nothing great but Man ; in man, there is nothing great but Mind. Whence if we ascend, we transcend the heavens ; but, if descending to the body, we thence look upwards... | |
| 1866 - Страниц: 534
...may, intellect, reason, understanding, it is by this gift he is crowned lord of this lower creation. " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." This is that vision and faculty divine, that breath of the inspiration of the Almighty, that beam from... | |
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