Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that his opinion rightly forms part of this agency — is a unit of force, constituting, with other such units, the general power... First Principles of a New System of Philosophy - Page 123by Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1890 - 444 pages
...with which Mr. Spencer concludes the first part of his " First Principles of Philosophy," he says : " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly recognize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 pages
...Spencer has put the bearing of this on conduct with a somewhat noteworthy deprecatoriness : — f " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly • realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts I external arrangements... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 294 pages
...the bearing of this on conduct with a somewhat noteworthy deprecatoriness : — " Whoever hesitatea to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 656 pages
...thought and action, progressive thought and action must also have free play. Without the agency of hoth, there cannot be those continual re-adaptations which...point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opin-• ion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that... | |
| Mrs. Louisa Burns Chapin - 1893 - 128 pages
...views. Those who known, advance new truths generally have to suffer for them. He fully believed, that " whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...lest it should be too much in advance of the time, . . . must remember that, while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and... | |
| Grant Allen - 1895 - 264 pages
...has Herbert Spencer for those who venture to see otherwise than the mass of their contemporaries ? ' Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1896 - 652 pages
...progressive thought and action must also have free play. Without the agency of both, there can not be those continual re-adaptations which orderly progress...point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinioli is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that his... | |
| William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1900 - 1250 pages
...following truths enunciated by Herbert Spencer: Whosoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks to be the highest truth, lest it should be too much in advance...his acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
| John Joseph Valentine - 1899 - 62 pages
...Adarns, Mr. George Gunton and Mr. Carl Schurz. JNO. J. VALENTINE. SAN FRANCISCO, * February 18, 1899. ''Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks...an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realize that his opinion is a unit of force, constituting, with other such units, the general power which works... | |
| William Wright Hardwicke - 1899 - 334 pages
...AND ETHICS. i I i; - \\\ * • H 3L v /J- < '•» • . K . I i I . i 1 • *— •^ Vii v \ A s "Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly realise the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to... | |
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