 Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...  Stoicism - Էջ 128William Wolfe Capes - 1880 - 255 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1837 - 608 էջ
...Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime...office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading; some censured it as immoral. Ouce indeed Posidonius,... | |
 | 1837 - 538 էջ
...sufferings. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime,...office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading; gome censured it as immoral. Once, indeed, Posidonius,... | |
 | 1838 - 822 էջ
...progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime...office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading ; some censured it as immoral. Once indeed Posidonius,... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1839 - 674 էջ
...here. "The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime...to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind." — Just so it has been in China. " The wise man lives according to nature. Instead of attempting to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 էջ
...Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime...office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading ; some cen* De Augmentis, Lib. 1. t Cogitata et visa.... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 էջ
...sufferings. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime,...office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading, some censured it as immoral. Once, indeed, Posidonius,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 էջ
...Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime...office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools contemned that office as degrading ; some censured it as immoral. Once indeed Posidonius,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 էջ
..." The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress — he thought the '... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 էջ
..." The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress ; he thought the fruit... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 էջ
..." The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress ; he thought the fruit... | |
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