 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 344 pages
...parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of tilings. I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the...could be made the principal outward purpose of a life. And I had a grand conception laid before me of changes to be effected in the condition of mankind through... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the...be made the principal outward purpose of a life."* Bentham sought to save the ethics of utility by generalizing the principle of self-interest into that... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - 516 pages
...gave unity to his hitherto detached and fragmentary conceptions, and he adds, " I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy, in one among the...be made the principal outward purpose of a life." He says in another important passage that/" the best of unbelievers are more genuinely religious in... | |
 | James Simson - 1875 - 222 pages
...acquired by reading the TraM de Legislation, and it is thus described : *— " I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the...could be made the principal outward purpose of a life. And I had a grand [Utopian] conception laid before me of changes to be effected in the condition of... | |
 | 1876 - 1072 pages
...component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conception of things. I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the...could be made the principal outward purpose of a life. And I had a grand conception laid before me of changes to be effected in the condition of mankind through... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 906 pages
...parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the...be made the principal outward purpose of a life." In his seventeenth year an appointment under his father in one of the East India Company's offices... | |
 | 1877 - 900 pages
...different being. It was the dropping of the keystone into the arch of previously fragmentary belief. It gave him "a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy: in...religion ; the inculcation and diffusion of which would be made the principal outward purpose of a life." The progress of the race would be henceforward... | |
 | 1877 - 824 pages
...component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the...word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of ^hich could be made the principal outward purpose of a life." In his seventeenth year an appointment... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - 1881 - 296 pages
...which he first read and studied Bentham, and of the confidence with which he felt that he had found in him " a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion," with the description of his own state, when his education, with its precocious and premature tendency... | |
 | 1888 - 924 pages
...-the detached and fragmentary component parts of his knowledge and beliefs. "I now had opinions — a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy — in one among the best senses of the word,'a religion, the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose... | |
| |
I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life. 
