An Essay on the Philosophy of Self-consciousness: Containing an Analysis of Reason and the Rationale of LoveThe author, 1882 - 196 pages |
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according action apprehension attained attributes of personality believe body categorical imperative colour communion complementary comprehension conceived conception constituted Creator desire Divine Duke of Argyle duty effects Efficient Causation emotions endeavour existence faith feeling Final Cause fulfilled fulness happiness harmony heart heaven Herbert Spencer hope human ideal ideas of reason inference instinctively intellectual intelligence kind knowledge laws of thought logical man's means mental representation metaphysics mind moral sense motive nature necessarily ness neural noumenal object optical spectrum organism ourselves perception perfection pheno phenomena physical Plato postulated Principle of Final principle of sufficient psychological rational rational expectation realised recognise reflective reason regard relations relativity satisfaction says says Argyll sciousness self-consciousness sensation social soul spiritual spontaneous Sufficient Cause sufficient reason Supreme tendency thee theory things thou thought tion true truth understanding unity universe whilst wisdom
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Page 105 - But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 110 - ... the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old. Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!
Page 43 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. ' 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Page 104 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 112 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Page 104 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 109 - Think, when our one soul understands The great Word which makes all things new, When earth breaks up and heaven expands, How will the change strike me and you In the house not made with hands?
Page 123 - O too late Beloved ! O too soon adored, by me ! For in the fields of immortality My spirit should at first have worshipped thine, A divine presence in a place divine...
Page 111 - YES! hope may with my strong desire keep pace, And I be undeluded, unbetrayed ; For if of our affections none find grace In sight of Heaven, then wherefore hath God made The world which we inhabit? Better plea . Love cannot have, than, that, in loving thee, Glory to that eternal Peace is paid. Who such divinity to thee imparts As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts. His hope is treacherous only whose love dies With beauty, which is varying every hour ; But in chaste hearts, uninfluenced by the...
Page 98 - What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself, He hears that name of thine, And sees within my eyes, the tears of two.