Alexandria and Her Schools: Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, EdinburghMacmillan and Company, 1854 - 172 páginas |
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Página 122 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Página xxiii - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Página v - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Página 149 - ... and thought themselves great and valiant, when by such an act they became possessed of more property ; they were clothed with hair garments ; knew not good from evil ; and made no distinction between that which is lawful and that which is unlawful.
Página 89 - This, as all students of philosophy must know, was one of the great puzzles of old Greek philosophy, as long as it was earnest and cared to have any puzzles at all; it has been, since the days of Spinoza, the great puzzle of all earnest modern philosophers. Philo offered a solution in that idea of a Logos, or Word of God, Divinity articulate, speaking and acting in time and space, and therefore by successive acts ; and so doing, in time and space, the will of the timeless and spaceless Father, the...
Página 35 - ... querulously to the Divine Light which lightens every man who comes into the world, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further. Thou hast taught men enough ; yea, rather, thou hast exhausted thine own infinitude, and hast no more to teach them.
Página 24 - ... nothing. For after all, if we will consider, induction being the right path to knowledge, every man, whether he knows it or not, uses induction, more or less, by the mere fact of his having a human reason, and knowing any thing at all ; as M. Jourdain talked prose all his life without being aware of it. Aristarchus is principally famous for his attempt to discover the distance of the sun as compared with that of the moon. His method was ingenious enough, but too rough for success, as it depended...
Página 131 - My own belief is that they expanded and corroborated Christianity, in spite of great errors and defects on certain points, far more than they corrupted it ; that they presented it to the minds of cultivated and scientific men in the only form in which it would have satisfied their philosophic aspirations, and yet contrived, with wonderful wisdom, to ground their philosophy on the very same truths which they taught to the meanest slaves, and to appeal in the philosophers to the same inward faculty...
Página 88 - ... think them right, on all grounds of Baconian induction. For all these qualities are only known to us as exhibited in persons ; and if we believe them to have any absolute and eternal existence at all, to be objective, and independent of us, and the momentary moods and sentiments of our own mind, they must exist in some absolute and eternal person, or they are mere notions, abstractions, words, which have no counterparts. ,But here arose a...
Página 96 - has hold of him," and who is his teacher and guardian ; that over and above his body and his soul, he has a Reason which is capable of " hearing that Divine Word, and obeying the monitions of that God." What is Plutarch's cardinal doctrine ? That the same Word, the Daemon who spoke to the heart of Socrates, is speaking to him, and to every philosopher ;