Arvelighed og moral: en undersøgelse

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Schou, 1881 - 394 Seiten
 

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Seite 23 - Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops, Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate: fine word, — legitimate!
Seite 288 - I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Seite 238 - Denn eben wo Begriffe fehlen, Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein.
Seite 175 - ... transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility. I also hold that just as the space-intuition responds to the exact demonstrations of Geometry, and has its rough conclusions interpreted and verified by them...
Seite 37 - Guise jusqu'à celui qui seul, et sans être attendu, alla se mettre à la tête du peuple deNaples, tous furent d'une figure, d'un courage et d'un tour d'esprit au-dessus du commun des hommes. J'ai vu les portraits en pied de François de Guise, du Balafré et de son fils; leur taille est de six pieds; mêmes traits, même courage, même audace sur le front, dans les yeux et dans l'attitude.
Seite 37 - Quelle disposition secrète d'organes, quelle sympathie, quel concours de lois physiques fait périr le père et les deux enfants de leur propre main, et du même genre de mort, précisément quand ils ont atteint la même année?
Seite 42 - ... I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore. I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
Seite 375 - Hence though of the two it seems easier to translate so-called Matter into so-called Spirit, than to translate so-called Spirit into so-called Matter (which latter is, indeed, wholly impossible) ; yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols.
Seite 44 - The limits of this power of transmission, and the conditions on which it depends, are a subject now fairly before the scientific world, and we shall doubtless in time know much more about them than we do now. But so far as my imperfect knowledge of the subject...

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