It is the part of philosophy, however, to pass over those natural repugnances and overlay them with as much countervailing rationality as can find lodgment in a particular mind.
Such, again, are those illusions of conscience which attach unspeakable vague penalties and repugnances to acts which commonly have bad results, though these are impossible to forecast with precision.
All the young girl's inherited repugnances were enhanced.
In her progress hither she had cast off, one by one, all her repugnances and terrors, all her proud and luxurious impulses, all her charms.
New expression of the repugnancesand terrors which Calvin feels in prospect of his returning to Geneva.
New expression of the repugnances and terrors which Calvin feels in prospect of his returning to Geneva, 230 LXII.
In spite of efforts which may have been for a time sincere, the conditions and the repugnances were too strong; antipathies rose up once more and carried all before them.
In the case of lawyers there are frequent intellectual repugnances to be overcome; but surgeons and other men of science have to vanquish a class of repugnances even less within the power of the will--the instinctive physical repugnances.
We must bear in mind that the essential condition of true criticism is to understand the diversity of times, and to rid ourselves of the instinctive repugnances which are the fruit of a purely rational education.
Sympathetic curiosity, however, seldom works alone, for other interests, less worthy and therefore often unavowed, usually cooperate to overcome our repugnances towards the unpleasant.
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