...justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me. ... ...nese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo! All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place! Al... ... mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?) Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking ... ...Nebraska, from Arkansas, Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein’d, All the hands of comrades clasping, all th... ...g and far flowing rivers of China, From the southern peninsulas and the demi continental islands, from Malaysia, These and whatever belongs to them pa...

...Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonic... ...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... ...hat of having breathed for a whole year, the free and genial atmosphere of Continental life. This advan tage was not the less real though I could not... ...arried away from the society I saw, was a strong and permanent interest in Continental Liberalism, of which I ever afterwards kept myself au courant ... ...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... ...ircumstances might be deduced. The influences of European, that is to say, Continental, thought, and especially those of the reac tion of the ninetee... ...organic period, succeeded by the critical or sceptical period of the Greek philosophers. Another organic period came in with Christianity. The cor re... ...he liberal opinions they had got into the habit of professing. None of the Continental Liberals committed the same fright ful mistake. But the genera...

...feeling, was common among the last generation of European liberalism, in the Continental section of which, it still appar ently predominates. Those w... ...nd have been encouraged in the belief by some who aspire to the character of philosophers, that their feelings, on subjects of this nature, are better... ...cient commonwealths thought themselves entitled to practise, and the ancient philosophers countenanced, the regulation of every part of private conduc... ...ed in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers. Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual think On Libe... ... abatements, it has in fact proved to be; the gentlest and most ami able of philosophers and rulers, under a solemn sense of duty , authorized the pe... ...to know and understand all that can be said against or for their opinions by philosophers and theologians. That it is not needful for common men to be...

... is such a despatch in them. Compared with these, the grave think ers and philosophers seem not to have got their swaddling clothes off; they are sl... ...ain of the Indian sect of Gymnosophists, and he had told them of those new philosophers of the West, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Diogenes, and their doc... ... of genius, but to have lived with too passive a regard for the laws.” The philosophers of the West are liable to this rebuke still. “They say that Li... ...Asiatic anxiety , in that state in which it appeared to their minds. These philosophers dwell on the inevitability and unchangeableness of laws, on th... ...oning, and diction almost unequalled,” and that the writings of the Indian philosophers “will survive when the British dominion in India shall have lo... ... of pure melody, we easily come to reverence him. Passing over the earlier continental poets, since we are bound to the pleasant archipelago of Englis...

...eems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as a matter of course) all religions,... ...has been committed on this subject, not by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian ethics (which word ethics, how- eve... ...sule Romam!’ and he mentioned the fact at all only for the sake of Natural Philosophers or of the curious in old women. Char- ity, even in that sense,... ...y to century, from the simplicity of shepherds to the utmost refinement of philosophers, carries with it a neces- sity, corresponding to such infinite... ... the case, none of which, in the common vernacu- lar versions (English and Continental), is at all intelligible. The elements in the case are three: t... ...m Great Britain, its annual bal- ance-sheet, by comparison with those from continental Eu- rope, would show a large excess. At the time of hearing thi... ... social philosophy, during many centuries, drew no especial attention from philosophers. It passed for a tru- ism, bearing no particular emphasis or m...

...part of Greek literature, beginning with Homer and including the tragedians, philosophers, and, with the ex ception of the Comic poets (whose busines... ...nce of custom among the Greeks and among ourselves, as between ourselves and continental nations at the present time, in modes of salutation. We must ...

...ld be quite lost if they were not in leading-strings devised by lawgivers, philosophers, 24 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet prophets and poets for th... ... be said for a political censorship, if not for a moral one? May not those continental gov- ernments who leave the stage practically free in ev- ery o...

...aught in a hopeless circle. However, Plato suggested a way out. A few men, philosophers or lovers of wisdom—or truth— may by study learn at least in o... ...te organs of execution and agencies of ad- ministration. In Europe, in the Continental states particu- larly, the new idea of the importance of educat... ...th propositions stating information has fastened itself upon logicians and philosophers, it is not surprising that the same ideal has almost dominated... ...adequate nature 271 John Dewey of experience. The statement of Plato that philosophers should be kings may best be understood as a statement that rat... ...ar- ance, in distinction from the reality upon which reason lays hold. The philosophers soon reached certain generalizations from this state of affair... ...ature at its best than in the transient things of man. If we take what the philosophers stood for in Greek life, rather than the details of what they ...

...—that mystery of mys- teries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something... ...before those of the larger Europaeo-Asi- atic area. Thus, also, it is that continental produc- tions have everywhere become so largely naturalised on ... ... conclude, looking to the future, that for terrestrial productions a large continental area, which will probably un- dergo many oscillations of level,... ...cted. When, by renewed elevation, the islands shall be re-converted into a continental area, there will again be severe competition: the most favoured... ...that during the palaeozoic and secondary peri- ods, neither continents nor continental islands ex- isted where our oceans now extend; for had they exi... ...e way as the productions of real islands have everywhere lately yielded to continental forms, naturalised by man’s agency. I am far from supposing tha...

...their fiscal ar- rangements, and it was Napoleon’s attempt to strangle the Continental trade with Great Britain that began his downfall. I do not find... ...n army. I believe that the vast masses of men in uniform maintained by the Continental Powers at the present time are enormously overrated as fighting... ...ne or two individual minds, which is the essential charac- teristic of the Continental movement towards the novel of amplitude. While the “Old Wives’ ... ... a precious wilderness of wonderful reading. But if Flaubert is really the Continental emancipator of the novel from the restrictions of form, the mas... ..., will come to be a manageable matter. It has been the perpetual wonder of philosophers from Plato onward that men have bred their dogs and horses and...

...German cousins (one knows what foreigners are), acquaintances picked up at Continental hotels (one knows what they are too). It was interesting, and d... ...ess they are dead at once, and naturally. Your po- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred y... ... to enjoy fresh air and the whisper of the rising tide. There is something continental about Chelsea Em- bankment. It is an open space used rightly, a... ...ted years. No Pa- gan he, who lives for the Now, and may be wiser than all philosophers. He lived for the five minutes that have past, and the five to...

...son and Oliver. On his arrival in Philadelphia he was chosen a member of the Continental Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissio... ...ges; and the doctrine it contain’d was by degrees universally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of the abbe; so that he liv... ...hosen a delegate to the Sec The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 160 ond Continental Congress; placed on the committee of se cret correspondence;...

...he buttered-bun dishes crashed against each other in the hearth. The other philosophers were crouched in odd shapes on the sofa and table and chairs, ... ...awful!” “Wicked, intolerable boy!” She turned on the elec- tric light. The philosophers were revealed with un- pleasing suddenness. “My goodness, a te... ...ause it brings in no return. I think I’m a great philosopher, but then all philosophers think that, though they don’t dare to say so. But, however gre... ...a wider range, he spoke of England, or rather of Great Britain, and of her continental foes. Portraits of empire-builders hung on the wall, and he poi...

...as of light, the varying aspects of [36] “I know not to what physical laws philosophers will some day refer the feelings of melancholy. For myself, I ... ...ectures has been defended by some of your very ablest Scottish reli- gious philosophers.[52] [52] The Cairds, for example. In Edward Caird’s Glasgow L... ...ciple of reconciliation.” The Evolution of Religion, ii. pp. 146, 147. But philosophers usually profess to give a quasi- logical explanation of the ex... ... systems are ever to fuse integrally into one absolute conception, as most philosophers assume that they must, and how, if so, that conception may bes... ...r out of place. I ask you now not to forget this notion; for although most philosophers seem ei- ther to forget it or to disdain it too much ever to m... ...t digression. What God hath joined together, let no man put asun- der. The Continental schools of philosophy have too often overlooked the fact that m...

...Mine at least, weary nobody; which is more than can be always said for the continental versions. On a night in the year 1592, (but which night is a se... ...sentatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that the muleteer’s stable at Valladolid was worth twenty suc... ...s of con- densing, would become planets, capable of brilliant literati and philosophers, in several volumes octavo. So stood the case for a long time;... ...unclean beasts would have been Coleridge’s private menag- erie of departed philosophers, could they all have been trot- ted out in succession! But did... ... this circumstance we must attribute its being so little known amongst the philosophers and mathematicians of foreign coun- tries, and also the fact t...

...e busi- ness of a peculiar trade; and some by that of those who are called philosophers, or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do any thing,... ...rds occupa- 16 The Wealth of Nations tion to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as ... ...art of men have of their own abilities, is an ancient evil remarked by the philosophers and moralists of all ages. Their absurd presumption in their o... ...m as in any part of the mother country The schools of the two oldest Greek philosophers, those of Thales and Pythagoras, were established, it is remar... ... alone. The persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importa... ...fferent people, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under tho... ... order to make it straight, you must bend it as much the other. The French philosophers, who have proposed the system which represents agriculture as ...

...ll this country; he had readers in England and in several of the states of Continental Europe; but he had few or no friends; and the regrets for his d... ...Some few are mountebanks. Others more particularly be- long to the race of philosophers. The greatest portion, how- ever — those especially who belabo... ...at a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!” Come let us be off. “Stay a moment! I see a vast hubbub in t...

...isfactory spiritual plane with “high thinking.” From the days of the Greek philosophers to the present, a degree of leisure and of exemption from cont... ...l set by the barbarian of the quasi-peaceable nomadic culture. Some of the Continental countries afford good illustrations of this spiritual survival.... ... or romantic ideal occur freely in the tastes of the well-to-do classes of Continental coun- tries. In modern communities which have reached the highe...

...er francs and shil- lings which disgrace, in Europe, many English and many continental inns. All this is, as must be admitted, great praise; and yet I... ...eet I extend my custom on a different system; and when I make my start for continental life I have with him a matter of unsettled business to a consid... .... M. Agassiz has collected at Cambridge a museum of such things as natural philosophers delight to show, which I am told is all but invaluable. As my ... ... of eating bread earned by men. It is in that 301 Trollope that these new philosophers seem to me to err so greatly. Humanity and chivalry have succe...

...ith one another. Notwithstand- ing their true interest with respect to the continental nations was really the same, yet by the arts and policy and pra... ...racies, we should be, in a short course of time, in the predicament of the continental powers of Eu- rope —our liberties would be a prey to the means ... ...er the rest of mankind as created for her benefit. Men admired as profound philosophers have, in direct terms, attributed to her inhabit- ants a physi... ...factory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysi- cal philosophers. Sense, perception, judgment, desire, voli- tion, memory , ima... ...s well as numerous, they are known to have a double effect. In a nation of philosophers, this consid- eration ought to be disregarded. A reverence for... ...iently inculcated by the voice of an enlightened rea- son. But a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings...

...itten with an in- stinctive skill and a clearness and a vigour uncommon in philosophers, in which a very complete statement of the new view is present... ...formances in it, they seem to regard it as the culminating flower of their continental Republic—as though the Old World had never heard of shoddy. But...

...The Egoist allegiance. They are sometimes enervated by it: that must be in continental countries. Happily our climate and our brave blood precipitate ... ...ublic taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would at least have worked at books. He did work at scienc... ...id Sir Willoughby; “why be bawling every day the name of men of letters?” “Philosophers.” “Well, philosophers.” “Of all countries and times. And they ...

...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri... ... of pickled salmon was ill for weeks and that Mr F. and myself went upon a continental tour to Calais where the people fought for us on the pier until...

...hem all aside to open 18 Book I — Miss Brooke the journal of his youthful Continental travels. “Look here—here is all about Greece. Rhamnus, the ruin... ...out the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a religion without the aid of theology. His early ambition ha... ...llent practice, alternating, according to the season, between London and a Continental bathing place; having written a treatise on Gout, a disease whi...

...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri... ... of pickled salmon was ill for weeks and that Mr F. and myself went upon a continental tour to Calais where the people fought for us on the pier until... ...t, the land of a host of past and present abstract philoso- phers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in their myriad forms, called ...

...e!” and finally pushing them all aside to open the journal of his youthful Continental travels. “Look here—here is all about Greece. Rhamnus, the ruin... ...out the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a religion without the aid of theology. His early ambition ha...

...re the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, th... ... to produce that movement and war: reproaches for the nonobservance of the Continental System, the Duke of Oldenburg’s wrongs, the movement of troops ... ...ing such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and po- ets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goal toward wh...