Indeed, for all the clear composure of his philosophic contemplations, he has a temperament far too quick and sensitive to allow of his meeting all life's vexatious questions in the mood of stoical endurance.
Always a student of books and of men, he is never a recluse, and I do not know of any one who seems to get more out of life than does thisphilosophic historian.
Your ardent reasoning, my interesting and philosophic young friend, though not unconsequential, is a finely proportioned structure, resting on an airy foundation.
Mrs Morton sat wrapped in mock dignity; while Mr Morton, and his philosophic friend, canvassed the principles upon which an horizontal mill was about to be constructed on the estate of the former.
Without being conscious of it, my grateful love for Mrs Harley had, already, by a transition easy to be traced by a philosophic mind, transferred itself to her son.
He felt, with Des Cartes, the incompatibility of thought with extension, considered as an immanent quality of substance, and he shared with Spinoza the unific propensity which distinguishes the higher order of philosophic minds.
The Preëstablished Harmony, then, is to be regarded as the philosophic statement of a fact, and not as a theory concerning the cause of the fact.
The philosophic conclusion justly deducible from this view of God, let cavillers say what they will, is Optimism.
In the vast multitude of his productions there is no complete philosophic work.
But, like all philosophic and adequate statements, it answers the purpose of a theory, and clears up many difficulties.
But the assaults of the Philosophic school were not leveled at the religious and civil administration alone.
The "Greatness and Decadence of the Romans" is a study of philosophic history.
The endeavor is one which can never meet with complete success, yet which should sometimes be made in a philosophic spirit.
Voltaire not only sent in contributions of his own, but constantly gave encouragement and advice, as became the recognized head of the Philosophic school.
It was the fashion in the Philosophic party to represent the whole matter as a miserable squabble.
A dreamer and not a philosophic thinker, he perceived some truths and uttered many sophistries, speaking always with the fire of conviction and a fatal eloquence.
At the time when "Émile" was written, Jean Jacques had quarreled personally with most of his old associates of the Philosophic school.
Such is the last practical advice of the French Philosophic school of the eighteenth century and of its unconscious followers in this.
In these two passages we have the issue between Montesquieu and the Philosophic party fairly joined.
Montaigne, Bayle, and Grotius may be considered the predecessors on the Continent of the French Philosophic movement, but its great impulse came from England.
The answers of the churchmen to their Philosophic opponents are generally inconclusive.
Dickens' books, however, like his character, are destitute of the deeper spiritual quality, of poetic and philosophic idealism.
The medieval chroniclers were mostly mere annalists, brief mechanical recorders of external events, and the few more philosophic historians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries do not attain the first rank.
Shelley's excitable sensuousness produces in him in the presence of Nature a very different attitude from that of Wordsworth's philosophic Christian-mysticism.
Meredith's general attitude toward life is the fine one of serene philosophic confidence, the attitude in general of men like Shakspere and Goethe.
A quotation in which the mingling of a cheerful, practical, humorous temper, the temper of the active citizen and politician, with the heavy tasks of philosophic thought, is very happily suggested.
Life was still full of vivid interest for him, but years (fallentis semita vitae) had brought the philosophic mind.
It was however no small achievement to mould the Latin tongue to be a vehicle for Greek philosophic thought, and thus to render the conclusions of Greek thinkers accessible to his own countrymen.
The application of the evolutionary principle to the world of life, human or animal, thus presents itself as the chief philosophic and scientific achievement of the nineteenth century.
During his later days, it was the Mecca of a world-wide scientific and philosophic pilgrimage, where all the greatest men our age has produced sought at times the rare honour of sitting before the face of the immortal master.
That suggestive expression of belief aptly sums up the general attitude of scientific and philosophic minds at the precise moment of the advent of Darwinism.
Nevertheless, on the moral and social side, the ultimate importance of the 'Descent of Man' upon the world's history can hardly be overrated by a philosophic investigator.
Without Darwin, a small group of philosophic thinkers would still be striving to impress upon an incredulous and somewhat contemptuous world the central truths of the evolutionary doctrine.
Without knowing why he arrives by dint of the experience of his daily toil at the same conclusions as Engels attained as the result of philosophic training and much erudition.
For the most part moral and ethical philosophic ideas and these constitute an expression corresponding more or less closely, whether positive or negative, harmonious or hostile, with the social and political conditions which environ him.
The confusion of the Marxian philosophic notions will not be strange to him who knows what can be done by means of the Hegelian dialectic or rather what cannot be done.
The new socialist theory appeared as the last practical result of a new philosophic system.
The modern American proletariat is, as a matter of fact, given neither to philosophic speculation nor to the imagination which is necessary to idealism.
Not only that, but the British philosophic outlook has become completely changed.
What do you say, doctor; shall we continue our philosophic conversation as peripatetics in the open air?
It affords much food to the philosophic mind, this influence of income upon character.
If the poem had ended more originally, in short, but for the last stanza, I will venture to affirm that there were never so many lines which so uninterruptedly combined natural and beautiful words with strict philosophic truths, "i.
While engaged in these argumentations with his best friend, Coleridge was striving to think out in his deep philosophic and musing mind many problems of the time; and there arose in his imagination the Idea of the Permanent.
Yet the precisians of the time admired these uncouth verses for the philosophic depth of thought they found in them.
But Bacon was a seer rather than an expounder, a philosophic poet rather than an inventor; and it was left to men of future times to find out the practical methods of applying the wonderful power which he had imagined and foretold.
The reason for this is plain enough to me now, though, like all my theories about Ireland, the truth came to me from observation and practical experience rather than as the result of philosophic speculation.
In our conversation what struck me most was the influence which politics had exercised even on his philosophic mind, notwithstanding a low estimate of our political leaders.
I am attempting to give in the first part of the book a philosophic insight into the chief Irish problems, and then, in the second part of the book, to present the facts which appear to me to illustrate these problems in process of solution.
Is it not less thanphilosophic to look at the process alone, or to look at the result alone?
It is that, as the most philosophic anatomists are now coming to believe, the body of man actually represents the goal of physical evolution.
He was certainly, in a philosophic sense, a Conservative; he was anti-popular and anti-democratic.
Pleasures vary in kind, as the activities that constitute life vary: the best pleasures are those of the philosophic life.
The philosopher, he argues, has tried both kinds of pleasure, sensual as well as intellectual, and prefers the delights of philosophic life; the sensualist ought therefore to trust his decision and follow his example.
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