The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895W. Blackwood and Sons, 1896 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina vii
... future supremacy , but often at the cost of present hardship . - Conformity as obedience to the laws of our being . - Environment best understood through the study of the human mind . - Productiveness and prospectiveness of vital ...
... future supremacy , but often at the cost of present hardship . - Conformity as obedience to the laws of our being . - Environment best understood through the study of the human mind . - Productiveness and prospectiveness of vital ...
Pagina ix
... future you know less . " I fear that many share his opinion , although they might not express it so emphatically . It would seem , therefore , to be in order to show that science is now competent to deal with this question ; not that ...
... future you know less . " I fear that many share his opinion , although they might not express it so emphatically . It would seem , therefore , to be in order to show that science is now competent to deal with this question ; not that ...
Pagina xiii
... future man will be more and more com- pletely controlled by the very highest powers or aims to which this sequence points . Otherwise we must disbelieve the continuity of history . But the germs of the future are always concealed in the ...
... future man will be more and more com- pletely controlled by the very highest powers or aims to which this sequence points . Otherwise we must disbelieve the continuity of history . But the germs of the future are always concealed in the ...
Pagina 2
... future occup the rest of the book . Whence we came is impor only in so far as it teaches us humility and yet ass us ... future only from the past . Its answer to the questi whither must be an inference from its knowledge as whence we ...
... future occup the rest of the book . Whence we came is impor only in so far as it teaches us humility and yet ass us ... future only from the past . Its answer to the questi whither must be an inference from its knowledge as whence we ...
Pagina 15
... future , pre- pare for its emergencies , and avoid or wisely meet , its dangers . And we rely on these laws of history be- cause they are the embodiment of ages of human ex- perience . prac- Fire Whatever be our system of philosophy we ...
... future , pre- pare for its emergencies , and avoid or wisely meet , its dangers . And we rely on these laws of history be- cause they are the embodiment of ages of human ex- perience . prac- Fire Whatever be our system of philosophy we ...
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