 ... 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
 | Thomas Edwards - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 92
...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... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 128
...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,... | |
 | James Stuart (of Stretford.) - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...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... | |
 | Walter Henry Hill - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 288
...not be entirely extinct, notwithstanding the defective congenital mental organization. " In nature there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mind " If, therefore, young gentlemen, discouraged and fatigued at times with the perplexing problems of... | |
 | 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...University of Edinburgh, the class-room of Logic and Metaphysics — bearing the inscription, " On earth, there is nothing great but man ; in man, there is nothing great but mind" — is overcrowded by the number of students (over 230) ; and in these subjects, as well as in Moral... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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... | |
 | Rev. James Wells - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...is some truth in the words that were painted over the chair of one of my professors — " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." With many boys and girls the powers of the mind are roused at first as by a kind of sudden conversion.... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...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... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...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... | |
 | 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...hypocrisy, should be good. The culmination of our philosophy is thus Hamilton's favorite maxim : " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind ;" and I might add, in mind there is nothing great but love guided by law. This carries with it Moral... | |
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