 ... 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.  Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic - الصفحة 24بواسطة Sir William Hamilton - 1865عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Govinda Chandra Ghose - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 78
...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... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...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... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...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... | |
 | Raphael De Cordova Lewin - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 94
...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... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...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 untruth, is suitable... | |
 | James Edmund Garretson - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...the summing up in his third lecture, he repudiates the aphorism of Sir William Hamilton : " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." But he has done it on such insufficient grounds (in the arguments of his book) that they have failed... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...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... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...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 prer gatives... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 678
...spiritual, thinking being, that constitutes man's glory in the domain of sublunary existence. " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." This life implies activity — a power of self-motion and of self-determination. The grounds of its... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...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... | |
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