Nature, and Her Laws: As Applicable to the Happiness of Man, Living in Society; Contrasted with Superstition and Imaginary SystemsJ. Watson, 1834 |
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according advantages Anthony Collins Aristotle Barbier BARON D'HOLBACH become believe body brain capacitated causes chimeras combinations conduct contemplate crime death Descartes desire doctrine earth effects energy error essence eternal evil excited experience exterior faculties fear feel felicity follow free agent frequently give greater number habit happiness Holbach human species ideas ignorance imagination impulse individual innate ideas interest Jupiter labour laws London i. e. Malebranche man's manner matter means metaphysicians mind miserable mode of existence modes of action modified moral motion motives moved Natural philosophers nature necessarily necessity never objects obliged opinions organs pain passions peculiar perceive philosophers physiognomists Plato pleasure prejudices present principles procure produce properties punish Pythagoras reason received render Sacred Contagion sensations senses sensible short society soul spirit substance superstition supposed temperament tence thing thou tion true truth virtue virtuous Voltaire welfare whence whole wicked
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Página 225 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Página 225 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Página 148 - He is born without his own consent; his organization does in nowise depend upon himself; his ideas come to him involuntarily; his habits are in the power of those who cause him to contract them...
Página 163 - ... is itself necessarily determined, in consequence of ideas formed from perceptions, resulting from sensations, which it receives from exterior objects. As the mechanism of these sensations, of these perceptions, and the manner they engrave ideas on the brain of man, are not known to him, because he is unable to unravel all these motions; because...
Página 18 - Nature produces such or such an effect," there is no intention of personifying that nature which is purely an abstract being; it merely indicates that the effect spoken of necessarily springs from the peculiar properties of those beings which compose the mighty macrocosm. When, therefore, it is said, Nature demands that man should pursue his own happiness, it is to prevent circumlocution — to avoid tautology; it is to be understood, that it is the property of a being that feels, that thinks, that...
Página 9 - He exists in nature. — He is submitted to her laws. — He cannot deliver himself from them.
Página 162 - The partisans of the system of free agency appear ever to have confounded constraint with necessity. Man believes he acts as a free agent, every time he does not see any thing that places obstacles to his actions; he does not perceive that the motive which causes him to will, is always necessary and independent of himself.
Página 45 - ... every thing is connected ; it is itself but an immense chain of causes and effects, which flow without ceasing one from the other. If we reflect a little, we shall be obliged to acknowledge, that every thing we see is necessary ; that it cannot be otherwise than it is...
Página 158 - ... him to make, enable him to apply true experience in the moment when it is wanted? And even when his temperament has capacitated him, has his education, the examples set before him, the ideas with which he has been inspired in early life, been suitable to make him contract this habit of repressing his desires? Have not all these things rather contributed to induce him to seek with avidity, to make him actually desire those objects which you say he ought to resist? The ambitious man cries out:...
Página 46 - In those terrible convulsions which sometimes agitate political societies, and which frequently bring on the overthrow of an empire, there is not a single action, a single word, a single thought, a single volition, a single passion in the agents, which...