Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified: And the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 páginas |
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... belief that , as it is the purpose of a book to influence conduct , the best way of writing a book must be the way best fitted to effect this purpose . Should exception be taken to the manifestations of feeling now and then met with ...
... belief that , as it is the purpose of a book to influence conduct , the best way of writing a book must be the way best fitted to effect this purpose . Should exception be taken to the manifestations of feeling now and then met with ...
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... belief in the worth of money . The most stringent economy he thinks virtuous ; and any thing like the most ordinary liberality vicious ; whilst of extravagance he has an absolute horror . Whatever adds to his store seems to him good ...
... belief in the worth of money . The most stringent economy he thinks virtuous ; and any thing like the most ordinary liberality vicious ; whilst of extravagance he has an absolute horror . Whatever adds to his store seems to him good ...
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... beliefs - a similar conflict amongst these also a parallel antagonism . So that it is only where a desire is very predominant , or where no adverse desire exists , that this connection between the in- stincts and the opinions they ...
... beliefs - a similar conflict amongst these also a parallel antagonism . So that it is only where a desire is very predominant , or where no adverse desire exists , that this connection between the in- stincts and the opinions they ...
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... beliefs about human duty dictated by unaided moral sense , to disappear before the deductions scientifically ... belief , is the inference that as desire is found to be the incentive to action where motives are readily analyzable ...
... beliefs about human duty dictated by unaided moral sense , to disappear before the deductions scientifically ... belief , is the inference that as desire is found to be the incentive to action where motives are readily analyzable ...
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... belief that human nature is uni- form . One would have thought it impossible to use eyes or ears without learning that mankind vary indefinitely , in instincts , in morals , in opinions , in tastes , in rationality , in every thing ...
... belief that human nature is uni- form . One would have thought it impossible to use eyes or ears without learning that mankind vary indefinitely , in instincts , in morals , in opinions , in tastes , in rationality , in every thing ...
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