...through which character adapts external arrangements to itself; and therefore no one should hesitate to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it should be too much in advance of the time. The utterance of intelligent convictions by the thinkers of any age, is a kind of necessity, — a...

...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...him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency throiigh which character adapts external arrangements to itself— that his opinion rightly forms part...

...sympathy." So far, Dr. Franklin's practice and Mr. Spencer's theory are in accord. But, adds Mr. Spencer, " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an unpersonal point of view. Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character...

...fa-cns-bespiegeling , geen doodsbetrachting.) SPINOZA. ZUTPE N. WJ THTEME EN C»5. 1865. II. Who so ever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it shonld bc too much in advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal...

...accepting the current theology. See his First Principles, pt. i. ch. vi. { 34 ; paragraph beginning, — ' Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...looking at his acts from an impersonal point of view,' etc. were in the fulness of time to supersede. Still less, of course, can a new social state ever establish...

...pursuance of its object yields to no obstacles less than the calls of humanity or physical exhaustion. " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...lest it should be too much in advance of the time," says Herbert Spencer, " may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal point of view....

...in questions relating to social philosophy, but those also connected with the physical sciences? " Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the...advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking upon his acts from an impersonal point of view. Let him duly recognize the fact that opinion is the...

...corrispondono col tempo storico: « Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest trulh, lesi it should be too much in advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking at bis acts from an impersonal point of che sentono il tempo, si dice un grande concetto. ma non vi si...

...Without the agency of both there cannot be those continual re-adaptions which orderly progress requires. 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...

...minds of our own or any age. They may cheer you in this battle-hour as they have strengthened me : " 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...