| Philetus J. Stephens - 1875 - 236 páginas
...the mind. Sir William Hamilton left on the walls of the old University at Edinburgh these lines — " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great bat mind." Act upon this principle, and you will be enabled to exert great influence over your patients... | |
| 1876 - 802 páginas
...superiority of mental science over natural science. He quotes with much approval this ancient declaration, " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." This being his known bias, before examining the definition, an investigator of Nature, a believer in... | |
| 1876 - 730 páginas
...inscribed by Sir William Hiunilton on the walls of the class-room of Logic and Metaphysics in Edinburgh : "On Earth there is nothing great but Man: in Man there is nothing great but Mind." — Western Lancet. NOTE. — Superintendants of asylums, private and public, will please criticize... | |
| 1876 - 502 páginas
...mound has seen dismembered ; Shall it see their own decay? GEG THOUGHTS ABOUT THINKING. " In the world there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind." AND yet, while having a good opinion of ourselves in general, and in particular realizing that it is... | |
| William Walters - 1878 - 128 páginas
...mind is the glory of man. To use the words of Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, inscribed in his lecture-room, — "On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." Looking at him in this light, we may well say,— " Sure He that made us with such large discourse,... | |
| Thomas Edwards - 1878 - 92 páginas
...sensation, a bundle of sensations ; the thinking part of him is described as a " possibility of feeling." " On Earth there is nothing- great but man : In man there is nothing great but mind." This is the language of Natural Realists and others, who accept the testimony of consciousness and... | |
| John Stuart Stuart Glennie - 1878 - 458 páginas
...incapacity, is the result of having 1 This puts one in mind of Sir William Hamilton's favourite motto — On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind. As to the authorship of the similar verse — No&c bpy Kai NoDf (iroiiCi, raXXa cw0ii Kai - :• ;.\at... | |
| James Stuart (of Stretford.) - 1878 - 244 páginas
...earth," said an ancient philosopher, in words which a great teacher of our own age has made familiar, "there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." And although the assertion is made in too absolute a form, and seems to depreciate the wondrous and... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 282 páginas
...works of His hands, and had put all things under his feet. The idea suggested by our text is this — " On earth there is nothing great but man : In man there is nothing great but mind." In other words, true greatness consists, not in weight or extension, but in intellectual power and... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1879 - 294 páginas
...HEAD, THE HEART, AND THE HAND. When Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON gave utterance to that grand conception, " On earth there is nothing great but man; In man there is nothing great but mind," * he evidently had in view man as a duality. Still further, in this duality, he ranked the mind as... | |
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