We must here content ourselves with stating that it is on this principle of disinterested action, belonging to our nature, that he founds the chief part of our sentiment of Moral Approbation.
Though it may be true that every individual in his own breast prefers himself to mankind, yet he dares not look mankind in the face, and avow that he acts on this principle.
Abundant reference has been already made to the circumstances that modify in appearance, or in reality, the operation of this principle.
There are many actions possessing the kind of beauty or charm arising from utility; and hence, it may be maintained (as was done by Hume) that our whole approbation of virtue may be explained on this principle.
The foundation of this principle is: rational nature exists as an end in itself.
The practical necessity of acting on this principle, i.
I promise you that the whole edifice of aesthetic art and the still more difficult art of life will be supported by this principle.
Influenced by the truth of this principle, they effaced from the brow of their gods the earnestness and labour which furrow the cheeks of mortals, and also the hollow lust that smoothes the empty face.
On this principle of inheritance with modification we can understand how it is that sections of genera, whole genera, and even families, are confined to the same areas, as is so commonly and notoriously the case.
No breeder doubts how strong is the tendency to inheritance; that like produces like is his fundamental belief: doubts have been thrown on this principle only by theoretical writers.
The great power of this principle of selection is not hypothetical.
This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called natural selection.
This principle is of the utmost importance, and deserves to be thoroughly studied, for man is now beginning to be at war with himself.
There is therefore at the bottom of our hearts an innate principle of justice and virtue, by which, in spite of our maxims, we judge our own actions or those of others to be good or evil; and it is this principle that I call conscience.
According to this principle, any one who wanted to consider himself as an isolated individual, self-sufficing and independent of others, could only be utterly wretched.
This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.
On this principle of inheritance with modification, we can understand how it is that sections of genera, whole genera, and even families are confined to the same areas, as is so commonly and notoriously the case.
No breeder doubts how strong is the tendency to inheritance: like produces like is his fundamental belief: doubts have been thrown on this principle by theoretical writers alone.
The proofs of this principle of the common law have already been given on page 120, note.
This principle is clear, because the question for a jury to determine is, whether the accused be guilty, or not guilty.
The perversion of a polity is the losing sight of this principle, and the conducting of the polity in the interest of the governing body alone.
This principle, put as a command, would make human life intolerable.
This principle is more nearly correct than the other: but it needs interpretation, else it may prove dangerously lax.
This whole work is constructed on this principle].
This principle, which necessarily leads to divergence of character, explains the present state of various domestic races.
On this principle of inheritance at corresponding periods, we can understand how it is that most animals display from the germ to maturity such a marvellous succession of characters.
To this principle, which seems to be extremely general, we shall recur in the chapter on pangenesis.
This principle is, indeed, in one way so obvious that it escapes attention.
Nevertheless, this principle of the anticipation of perception must somewhat startle an inquirer whom initiation into transcendental philosophy has rendered cautious.
This is the reason why I have altered the formula of this principle--an alteration which shows very clearly the nature of an analytical proposition.
This principle is the highest in all human cognition.
It is not our business to inquire here into the utility of this principle in the investigation of nature.
It is this principle, of course, which is utilized in the familiar hydrostatic press.
With a little reflection we may in the same manner account for most of the other phenomena, and which seem inexplicable without attending to this principle.
This principle is that there are two distinct electricities, very different from each other, one of which I call vitreous electricity and the other resinous electricity.
This principle is that electric bodies attract all that are not so, and repel them as soon as they are become electric by the vicinity or contact of the electric body.
In pursuance of this principle, through life, I believe few persons would be found who would need more at one time than a single suit of woollen clothes, even in the severest winters of our northern climate.
Footnote: If this principle be correct, what is the tendency of our numerous schools, which are exclusively for one sex?
Exactly on this principle do the Turks act, in putting so high a value on the words of idiots.
On this principle we should all laugh at a revealed cookery.
On this principle I make no apology to the reader for detaining him upon a short sketch of Kant's life and domestic habits, drawn from the authentic records of his friends and pupils.
I shall, however, in another place, speak of this principle of interesting the pupils in our plans for the purpose of securing a majority in our favor, and explain the methods by which the minority is then to be governed.
I know of but one exception which any man whatever would be inclined to make to this principle, and that is where the parent would, if left to himself, take such a course as would ultimately make his children unsafe members of society.
In all probability, the formal announcement of this principle, and the endeavor to introduce it by a sudden revolution, would totally fail.
The contradictoriness of this principle of theirs to the fourth article, needs no illustration.
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