Liberty, Equality, FraternitySmith, Elder, & Company, 1873 - 350 pages |
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Page 298 - which is perhaps the most memorable utterance of its greatest poet. The poetry seems to me to go far deeper into the heart of the matter than the logic :— It is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future ghost within him, but are in very deed ghosts.
Page 75 - c. 35, which inflicts severe penalties on persons ' who assert, or maintain, that there are more Gods than one, or deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of divine authority ;' and blasphemy is an offence at common law
Page 48 - point out the way.' Eccentricity is much required in these days. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded, and the amount
Page 7 - I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions ; but it must be utility in the largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being.
Page 300 - On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped in. The last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence ? Oh, Heaven! whither ? Sense knows not, faith knows not, only that it is through mystery to mystery, from God and to God. We are such stuff As dreams are
Page 128 - a person is led to violate a distinct and assignable obligation to any other person or persons, the case is taken out of the self-regarding class, and becomes amenable to moral disapprobation in the proper sense of the term. If, for example, a man through intemperance
Page 36 - opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action ; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.' This reply does not appear to
Page 202 - some recognized social expediency requires the reverse, and hence all social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient assume the character not of simple inexpediency but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have been tolerated.
Page 258 - happiness, but the greatest amount of happiness altogether: and if it may possibly be doubted whether a noble character is always the happier for its nobleness, there can be no doubt that it makes other people happier, and that the
Page 295 - is but a series of feelings can be aware of itself as a series. The truth is, that we are here face to face with that final inexplicability at which, as Sir