Is the Order of Nature Opposed to the Moral Life?: An Inaugural Address Delivered in the University of Glasgow on October 23rd, 1894J. Maclehose, 1894 - 30 pàgines |
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Pàgina 17 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Pàgina 14 - Streams will not curb their pride The just man not to entomb, Nor lightnings go aside To give his virtues room; Nor is that wind less rough which blows a good man's barge.
Pàgina 16 - The intelligence which has converted the brother of the wolf into the faithful guardian of the flock ought to be able to do something towards curbing the instincts of savagery in civilized men.
Pàgina 10 - There is another fallacy which appears to me to pervade the so-called "ethics of evolution." It is the notion that because, on the whole, animals and plants have advanced in perfection of organization by means of the struggle for existence and the consequent "survival of the fittest" ; therefore men in society, men as ethical beings, must look to the same process to help them towards perfection.
Pàgina 13 - Where the cosmopoietic energy works through sentient beings, there arises, among its other manifestations, that which we call pain or suffering. This baleful product of evolution increases in quantity and in intensity, with advancing grades of animal organization, until it attains its highest level in man.
Pàgina 8 - O world, as God has made it ! All is beauty : And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Pàgina 13 - But that very sharpening of the sense and that subtle refinement of emotion, which brought such a wealth of pleasures, were fatally attended by a proportional enlargement of the capacity for suffering; and the divine faculty of imagination, while it created new heavens and new earths, provided them with the corresponding hells of futile regret for the past and morbid anxiety for the future.
Pàgina 13 - Now when the ancient sage, whether Indian or Greek, who had attained to this conception of goodness, looked the world, and especially human life, in the face, he found it as hard as we do to bring the course of evolution into harmony with even the elementary requirements of the. ethical ideal of the just and the good. If there is one thing plainer than another, it is that neither the pleasures nor the pains of life, in the merely animal world, are distributed according to desert ; for it is admittedly...
Pàgina 29 - Then all is still; earth is a wintry clod: But spring-wind, like a dancing psaltress, passes Over its breast to waken it, rare verdure Buds tenderly upon rough banks, between The withered tree-roots and the cracks of frost, Like a smile striving with a wrinkled face...
Pàgina 14 - If there is a generalization from the facts of human life which has the assent of thoughtful men in every age and country, it is that the violator of ethical rules constantly escapes the punishment which he deserves ; that the wicked flourishes like a green bay tree, while the righteous begs his bread ; that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children ; that, in the realm of nature, ignorance is punished just as severely as wilful wrong ; and that thousands upon thousands of innocent beings...