 | John Tulloch - 1866 - 308 páginas
....variety of unconscious being, who gives all its highest beauty and meaning to the latter. " In jnature there is nothing great but man ; in man (there is nothing great but mind." Such a view as this at once carries us beyond nature. It is of the very essence of a free and intelligent... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 504 páginas
...metaphysical studies. From Plato to Sir William Hamilton, who inscribed upon the walls of his lecture-room, " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind" a method has been pursued so confessedly vacant of valuable results, that its partizans have actually... | |
 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 páginas
...metaphysical studies. From Plato to Sir William Hamilton, who inscribed upon the walls of his lecture-room, " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind" a method has been pursued so confessedly vacant of valuable results, that its partizans have actually... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1870 - 216 páginas
...old writer, which the late Sir William Hamilton used to hang on the wall of his lecture-room : — " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind. " The aphorism, which, like most aphorisms, contains an equal measure of truth and of untruth, is suitable... | |
 | 1870 - 1202 páginas
...prelections. On entering the class-room, the eye was arrested by a motto in gold letters on a dark ground, " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." While musing on that suggestive sentiment, and as if to furnish a living illustration of its truth,... | |
 | Raphael De Cordova Lewin - 1870 - 94 páginas
.../between God and man is man's reason. " * So also a profound thinker of modern times has asserted, "On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind."1 These are powerful assertions, and they are true. Man is the masterpiece of creation, and it... | |
 | Govinda Chandra Ghose - 1870 - 78 páginas
...spiritual. It is an old proverb, much valued by philosophers in support to their beloved subject, viz., " in earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." The human mind is the best part of nature as it is known to us in our present state. As all the beautiful... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1870 - 376 páginas
...In vain would any one deny the truth of the favourite aphorism of Sir W. Hamilton — IN THE WORLD THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN. IN MAN THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. LESSON II. THE THREE PARTS OF LOGICAL DOCTRINE. IT has been explained in the previous lesson that Logic... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1862 - 782 páginas
...highest essence this side heaven. Sir William Hamilton had inscribed on the walls of his lecture-room, ON EARTH THERE is NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN: IN MAN THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. This knowledge is intrinsically the highest in a liberal educaL.. tion, below theology and Christianity... | |
 | Marcus Tullius. [Appendix.] Cicero, William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 220 páginas
...inherent excellence of nature, paying the same noble tribute to humanity as Kant some centuries after : " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." Truth is a law of our nature. Man is only " lower than the angels ; " and to him belong prerogatives... | |
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... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind. 
