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...ppers, and moccasined 9 Melville squaws; Northern speculators and Eastern philosophers; English, Irish, German, Scotch, Danes; Santa Fé traders in st... ...racter to another man, how- ever afflicted, does not argue more or less of moral worth in the latter?” The good merchant looked puzzled. “Still you do... ...ung sir,” touching his arm alarmedly, “don’t read this book. It is poison, moral poison. Even were there truth in Tacitus, such truth would have the o... ...s, such truth would have the operation of falsity, and so still be poison, moral poison. Too well I know this Tacitus. In my college-days he came near... ... experience could have gone, scarcely could he have known ill, physical or moral; and as for knowing or suspecting the latter in any serious degree (s... ...hat be! But it is not permitted to be; and even if it were, no judi- cious moralist would make proclamation of it. This gentleman, therefore, there is... ...n from the persuasion that these same destroyers of confidence, and gloomy philosophers of 48 The Confidence-Man the stock-market, though false in th... ...mes, for the most part keep their hands in their pockets. These may be the philosophers. But here and there, with a curious expression, one is reading... ...product of the human mind, if there can be found but nine good jokes, some philosophers are clement enough to affirm that those nine good jokes should...

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...nd adoration of abstract good, the to agathon kai to kalon of the Socratic philosophers, with our sympathies with our kind. In this, Shelley resembled... ...t’s imagination the earnest views and opin- ions of the politician and the moralist. At my request the publisher has restored the omitted pas- sages o... ...use which he considered the most sacred upon earth, the improvement of the moral and physi- cal state of mankind, was the chief reason why he, like ot... ... _20 Spare aught but a dark theme, On which the lightest heart might moralize? Or is it but that downy-winged slumbers Have charmed their nurse ... ...They languish, because none feel with them their common na- ture. They are morally dead. They are neither friends, nor lovers, nor fathers, nor citize... ...mper of the public mind, as to how far a thirst for a happier condition of moral and political society survives, among the enlightened and refined, th... ...der institutions not more perfect than those of Athens, each would produce philosophers and poets equal to those who (if we except Shakespeare) have n... ...e reflected, and in which they compose one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the cre...

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...ws-tree. But we will try that: on our side, to back a native pugnacity, is morality, human- ity, fraternity—nature’s rights, aha! and who withstands t... ...lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to temples of dusky thought: philosophers partaking of it are drawn by the arms of garlanded nymphs abou... ... himself,”’ Mr. Fenellan supplied the phrase. ‘Only, the moment old Colney moral- izes, he’s what the critics call sententious. We’ve all a parlous lo... ...an?’ ‘Also, sir. The clergy strongly.’ ‘On the grounds of—what, Skepsey?’ ‘Morality. I have fully explained to them:—after his work at the desk all da... ...er in the flesh for the assurance we receive of the inviolability of those moral fortifications.’ ‘Character, yes, valuable—I do wish you had named to... ...l!’ ‘Followed by a second, not less … ?’ ‘In the interpretation of a rigid morality arming you legal gentlemen to make it so!’ ‘The Law must be vindic... ..., and painfully, not ignobly—was in process of development: interesting to philosophers, if not to maidens. Victor accused her of paying too much heed...

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...atal law of the time we live in, there is not much difference, physical or moral, between the most elegant and best bred son of a duke and peer and th... ...hem it is the head and not the arm that acts. Hence the looseness of their morality, and hence the reproach heaped upon them by inferior minds. Blonde... ...d- ness as to merely material measures—air, light, and construc- tion. The moralist, the artist, and the sage administrator alike must regret the old ... ...creative when we purify such a creature? How delightful it is to harmonize moral with physical beauty! What joy and pride if we succeed! How noble a t... ...the farmer-general. In short, it is the application of art in the realm of morals. The priest, ashamed of having yielded to this weakness, hastily pus... ...h, subject only to his con- science and the Law. At the present time, when philosophers, philanthropists, and politicians are constantly endeavoring t... ... forms of protest made by the natural state against the social state. Even philosophers, the innovators of to-day, the humanitarians with the communis... ...customed to style and sentiment all day long, write as prostitutes behave. Philosophers may know the reasons for this contrariness. I do not care to s...

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...n conscious rectitude =pliers man should have a tail for its just display. Philosophers have drawn attention to the power of the human face to express... ...nted for our critics to write on. Poor duty is done by the simple sense of moral worth, to supplant that absence of feature in the plain flat back. We... ...n whimsical attractiveness. It was a beauty in her to dwell so firmly upon moral qual- ity. Overthrown and stunned as he was, and reduced to help- les... ...ardon,” said Mrs. Cavely, bridling with a spite pardonable by the severest moralist. “Can I speak to you alone?” she addressed Annette. Miss Fellingha... ....” Intercommunication with Miss Fellingham had done mis- chief to her high moral conception of the pair inhabiting the house on the beach. Mrs. Cavely... ...f sanity, which bids us right cordially hope. Energy, trans- ferred to the moral sense, may clear them yet. Meanwhile this beer, this wine, both are o...

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...elves, and to make efforts in time where they’re required of us. There’s a moral in everything, if we would only avail ourselves of it. It will be our... ...ense of duty , even under the humanizing influence of shrimps, delivered a moral address to her (punctuated with thumps) on her degenerate nature, whi... ...and in short, loosened (as Mrs Chick once told him) every social bond, and moral obligation. Yet, in spite of his early promise, all this vigilance an... ...eir united consequence and grandeur would be triumphantly re- alized. Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and ... ...nd itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster, the moral of these les- sons was usually of a violent and stunning character: t... ...m Mrs MacStinger, to offer any further quotations on the way for W alter’s moral improvement They interchanged no other word until they arrived at old...

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...nsels being thrown into the bargain. With such a vade mecum D’Artagnan was morally and physically an exact copy of the hero of Cervantes, to whom we s... ...with names the best known and with details the least concealed. But if his morals were shocked on the landing, his respect for the cardinal was scanda... ...ain as Narcissus; I plainly tell you so,” replied Aramis. “You know I hate moralizing, except when it is done by Athos. As to you, good sir, you wear ... ...sents from their king without shame. Let us add that in these times of lax morality they had no more delicacy with respect to the mistresses; and that... ...active and gallant cava- lier, already weak of body, but sustained by that moral power which made of him one of the most extraordinary men that ever l... ...he first of May, and they must immediately prepare their outfits. The four philosophers looked at one another in a state of bewilderment. M. de Trevil... ...chap- let of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. N...

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... heads of a dozen of his best friends to be cut off without feeling a little excite- ment, and as, since the accession of Mazarin to power, no heads h... ... am I not here — I, who am worth all the posts in 26 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 the kingdom? Quick, I say, to horse! so that if Madame de Saint-Remy s... ...as accus- tomed, was, that he watched, with folded arms, remark- able indifference, and supreme apathy, the joys and ennuis of this fete. Above all, h... ...ndiscretions from without. When once at Scheveningen he had felt completely reas- sured. His men greatly dreaded any conflict with the lords of the so... ...is business-closet. “My lord,” said D’Artagnan, with that expression of frankness which the Gascon knew so well how to assume, “my lord, I have come t... ... the post; so destitute of hope that he frequently thought of dying. He was so entirely ignorant of the existence of the million at Newcastle, that bu... ...self, scarcely able to suppress his laughter, had given an example of moderation. But with the denouement of the scene he threw off all restraint, and...

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...lea- sures, except in certain extreme cases, are unattended with pain. Few philosophers will deny that a degree of pleasure attends eating and drinkin... ...nal things. 7. Plato agrees partially with certain ‘surly or fastidi- ous’ philosophers, as he terms them, who defined plea- sure to be the absence of... ...lea- sure, was not a physical philosopher; the atomists, who were physical philosophers, were not enemies of plea- sure. Yet such a combination of opi... ...to say how much is due to each of them. Had we fuller records of those old philosophers, we should probably find Plato in the midst of the fray attemp... ...the mind), still, why should we make an ambiguous word the corner-stone of moral philosophy? To the higher thinker the Utilitar- ian or hedonist mode... ...iance with religion and with any higher conception both of politics and of morals. It has not satisfied their imagina- tion; it has offended their tas... ... laborious calculation, any more than in trying them by other standards of morals. For long ago they have been classified sufficiently for all practic... ...ich has been contrasted with Util- ity by Paley and others—the theory of a moral sense: Are our ideas of right and wrong innate or derived from experi... ... avoid misconception, what appears to be the truth about the origin of our moral ideas may be shortly summed up as follows:—To each of us individually...

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...esman extinguished. He is still looking for a city in which kings are either philosophers or gods (compare Laws). The Statesman has lost the grace and... ...upply the deficiencies of one another. As in the Republic, the government of philosophers, the causes of the perversion of states, the regulation of m... ...he wheel is reversed, and man is left to himself. Like other theologians and philosophers, Plato relegates his explanation of the problem to a transce... ...th, and not after the ordinary manner of human generation—half the causes of moral evil are in this way removed; (2) the arts are attributed to a divi... ... of power. Plato does not trouble himself to construct a machinery by which ‘philosophers shall be made kings,’ as in the Republic: he merely holds up... ...tion in the ruler and his subjects,—an ‘education in politics’ as well as in moral virtue; secondly , because government, whether Divine or human, imp... ...of a na- tion, when viewed impartially , to be on a level with each other in moral virtue, there remain two con- siderations of opposite kinds which e... ...e question is often asked, What are the limits of legislation in relation to morals? And the answer is to the same effect, that morals must take care ...

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...of the strongest personalities in modern education, and the wide- reaching moral earnestness of General Armstrong himself These influences are easily ... ... in the discussion of the Negro problem. Two or three de- cades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well- meaning philanthropists were still... ...his credit than this; and it is an achievement of 11 Booker T. Washington moral earnestness of the strong character of a man who has done a great nat... ...cts in the face, we must acknowledge that, notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, wh... ... are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people i... ...aced upon it. Those who constantly direct atten- tion to the Negro youth’s moral weaknesses, and com- pare his advancement with that of white youths, ...

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...e we may certainly apply the words in which he himself describes the earlier philosophers in the Sophist: ‘They went on their way rather regardless of... ...stent with Plato’s own relation to the Eleatics. For of all the pre Socratic philosophers, he speaks of them with the greatest respect. But he could h... ...as, to one another and to the mind. But this was a problem which the Eleatic philosophers had never considered; their thoughts had not gone beyond the... ...e into 16 Parmenides conflict with the metaphysical theories of the earlier philosophers, and he sought to supple ment the one by the other . The ol... ...philosophers, and he sought to supple ment the one by the other . The older philosophers were great and awful; and they had the charm of antiquity . ... ...d our criticism to the furthest point, they still remain, a necessity of our moral na ture, better known and understood by us, and less liable to be ...

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...des well read In nature’s secret lore. Orpheus I mark’d And Linus, Tully and moral Seneca, Euclid and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Galenus, Avicen, and him w... ...labus of the whole of this part of the poem. v. 48. And sorrows.] This fine moral, that not to enjoy our being is to be ungrateful to the Author of i... ...ring, on another division of the subject, let it be defined. that respecting morals there are three sorts of things to be avoided, malice, incontinenc... ...foundest, mark’d That innate freedom, and were thence induc’d To leave their moral teaching to the world. Grant then, that from necessity arise All lo... ..., thou hadst seen, In such momentous circumstance alone, God’s equal justice morally implied In the forbidden tree. But since I mark thee In understan... ...it has a separate existence of its own. v. 65. Three men.] The great moral philosophers among the heathens. v. 78. A crag.] I have preferred the r... ...] For the singular opinions entertained by the two former of these heathen philosophers, see Diogenes Laertius, 1. ix. and Aristot. de Caelo, 1. ii...

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... whole passage. The explanation is as follows:— The Lacedaemonians are great philosophers (al though this is a fact which is not generally known); an... ... is not the only good, and pain the only evil? Protagoras seems to doubt the morality or propriety of assenting to this; he would rather say that ‘som... ...s; but the truth of Protagoras is based on common sense and common maxims of morality, while that of Socrates is paradoxical or transcen dental, and ... ...m self at the commencement of the Dialogue, Socrates sets up the proverbial philosophers and those mas ters of brevity the Lacedaemonians. The poets... ... opening of the speech in which the Lacedaemonians are described as the true philosophers, and Laconic brevity as the true form of philosophy, evident... ...that Protagoras is consistently presented to us throughout as the teacher of moral and political virtue; there is no allusion to the theories of sensa... ... aspects of the truth by the help of which we pass from the old conventional morality to a higher conception of virtue and knowledge. That virtue cann... ...imself who would pass the limits of proverbial and popular philoso phy. The moral and intellectual are always divid ing, yet they must be reunited, ...

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...de Chateaubriand remarked it among the ursine tribes of the New World. But philosophers inform us that old age is apt to revert to the habits of youth... ...orld becomes stiff and starched by contact with petty things; in a loftier moral atmosphere it would have grown to noble magnanimity. Enthusiasm, that... ... her as men shunned a leper in the Middle Ages. Nais might have broken the moral law, and her whole circle, the clergy and the flower of the aristocra... ...oor creatures disinherited by fate, whose intellects pine in an oppressive moral atmosphere, who die and have never lived, knowing all the while what ... ...every house is transparent, the solace of close friendships which break no moral law is scarcely allowed; and such outrageously scan- dalous construct...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ............................................................................................................................ 25 EPISTLE I.?TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.*........................................

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........................................................................... 7 MORAL ESSAYS ................................................................. ...ich,” says Hazlitt, “is as good as an house or estate”— and the heights of moral grandeur into which he can at times soar, whenever he has manly indig... ... a great way—and by which, with admirable skill, he can subserve alike his moral and literary purpose. But the ques- tion now arises—What was his purp... ...tian; no Whig, but no very ardent Tory either. He seems to wish to support morality, but his support is stumbling and precarious; although, on the oth... ...lu- sion, he exhibits no desire to overturn or undermine it. His bursts of moral feeling are very beautiful (such as that con- taining the noble lines... ...of these apprehensions, she is secured by a hearty address from the minute philosophers and free- thinkers, one of whom speaks in the name of the rest... ...is that of Descartes; the second, of Hobbes; the third, of some succeeding philosophers.—P . W . 433 ‘Bright image:’ bright image was the title given...

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... is a desire to make acknowledgment of the debts which my intellectual and moral development owes to other per sons; some of them of recognised emine... ...Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonic... ...ed, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality , mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate t... ...d I well know that the relation be tween teacher and taught is not a good moral discipline to either. I went in this manner through the Latin grammar... ...totle’s Rhetoric, which, as the first expressly scientific treatise on any moral or psychological subject which I had read, and containing many of the... ...23 John Stuart Mill CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II MORAL INFL MORAL INFL MORAL INFL MORAL INFL MORAL INFL UENCES IN EARL UENCE... ...red from reli gion, were very much of the character of those of the Greek philosophers; and were delivered with the force and decision which characte... ... sures. Accordingly, temperance, in the large sense intended by the Greek philosophers—stopping short at the point of moderation in all indulgences—w... ...y. This source of anxiety may, perhaps, be thought to resemble that of the philosophers of Laputa, who feared lest the sun should be burnt out. It was...

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... misgovernment, is but an additional wheel in its machinery. Besides these moral hindrances, mechanical difficulties are 10 Considerations on Represe... ... institution or polity which they recommend, but also with the capacities, moral, intellectual, and active, required for working it; that they may avo... ...al phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, is, in all subst... ...y change in the distribution of material inter ests, but by the spread of moral convictions, that negro sla very has been put an end to in the Briti... ...just distribution of burdens, by holding up to every citizen an example of morality and good conscience applied to diffi cult adjustments, and an evi... ...st authorities attach to them, tends in an eminent de gree to educate the moral sentiments of the community, both in respect of strength and of discr...

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...a as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which... ... within the domain of knowledge. “Undoubtedly,” it will be said, “religious, moral, philo sophical and juridical ideas have been modified in the cour... ...as have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality philosophy, political science, and law, constantly sur vived th... .... But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts ... ...he industrial war of extermina tion between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities. In it... ..., in that country, had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism. German philosophers, would be philosophers, and beaux esprits, eagerly seized on... ...al significance, and assumed a purely lit erary aspect. Thus, to the German philosophers of the eighteenth century, the demands of the first French R...