The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in MoralsHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 405 páginas |
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... WORTH 63 81 VII . THE MORAL PERSON 110 VIII . INDIVIDUAL MORALITY 150 IX . THE CARDINAL VIRTUES 178 X. THE DOCTRINE OF AUTOMATIC GOODNESS 209 XI . SOCIAL WELFARE . 241 XII . THE MORALITY OF THE FOUR INSTITUTIONS 274 • XIII . OCCUPATIONS ...
... WORTH 63 81 VII . THE MORAL PERSON 110 VIII . INDIVIDUAL MORALITY 150 IX . THE CARDINAL VIRTUES 178 X. THE DOCTRINE OF AUTOMATIC GOODNESS 209 XI . SOCIAL WELFARE . 241 XII . THE MORALITY OF THE FOUR INSTITUTIONS 274 • XIII . OCCUPATIONS ...
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... of the Man of Sorrows . It is this emphasis , this distinguishing stamp , which determines our own attitude towards the individual . A set of curves , a trick of light and shade , a play of color , a unique combination of dimensions ...
... of the Man of Sorrows . It is this emphasis , this distinguishing stamp , which determines our own attitude towards the individual . A set of curves , a trick of light and shade , a play of color , a unique combination of dimensions ...
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... of face which arouses the liveliest satisfac- tion , and appeals to the deepest and most genuine feeling . Each man places the emphasis for him- self , and so makes his own desired good fortune individual . The good fortune which my ...
... of face which arouses the liveliest satisfac- tion , and appeals to the deepest and most genuine feeling . Each man places the emphasis for him- self , and so makes his own desired good fortune individual . The good fortune which my ...
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... Good fortune has many aspects , quite as many aspects as the human face itself . Furthermore , it is an individual experi- ence , is private and subjective . Each man who goes on the quest — and we all go must set up his own goal , must ...
... Good fortune has many aspects , quite as many aspects as the human face itself . Furthermore , it is an individual experi- ence , is private and subjective . Each man who goes on the quest — and we all go must set up his own goal , must ...
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... personal standpoint , and to apply a more objec- tive and less individual measuring - rod . Morality must consider both the individual idea and the world idea , since its province is to know quite beyond peradventure whether the fortune is ...
... personal standpoint , and to apply a more objec- tive and less individual measuring - rod . Morality must consider both the individual idea and the world idea , since its province is to know quite beyond peradventure whether the fortune is ...
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The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals Charles Hanford Henderson Visualização completa - 1905 |
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accept action activity adjustment of means altruism attain attitude becomes believe called cardinal virtue cern child-labor church cial commonly desire devoid double aspect duct duty efficiency and worth egoism ends of conduct essential excellence experience fail failure feeling freedom function genuine habits happiness heart human conduct human wealth idea ideal immoral indi individual good fortune industrial inner institution judgment knowledge larger less lives majority marriage matter means to ends measure ment method mind moral person moralists nature neighbor ness never objective objective ideal occupations one's opportunity organ perfect point of view possession possible practical present problem properly prosperity pursuit quest question reality regard relations religion rience science of right side slavery social welfare society sophism sort soul spirit standard success things tical tion true truth truth-telling uncon vidual vital whole wholesome wholly will-o'-the-wisp women wrong
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Página 220 - Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 92 - So that no school can avoid taking for the ultimate moral aim a desirable state of feeling called by whatever name — gratification, enjoyment, happiness.
Página 218 - Our nervous systems have (in Dr. Carpenter's words) grown to the way in which they have been exercised, just as a sheet of paper or a coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical folds.
Página 169 - The best man is he who most tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting himself...
Página 220 - We speak, it is true, of good habits and of bad habits; but, when people use the word "habit," in the majority of instances it is a bad habit which they have in mind. They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the drinking-habit, but not of the abstention-habit or the moderation-habit or the courage-habit. But the fact is that our virtues are habits as much as our vices.
Página 397 - John Percyfield is twisted of a double thread — • delightful, wise, sunshiny talks on the lines laid down by the Autocrat, and an autobiographical love story. It is full of wisdom and of beauty, of delicate delineation, and of inspiring sentiment." New York Times. " Its merits will rank it among the few sterling books of the day.
Página 137 - Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them; as if the British Philistine would have only to present himself before the Great Judge with his twelve children, in order to be received among the sheep as a matter of right!
Página 364 - Bible, (the law spoken of in the text,) declared that, if he had his life to live over again, he would spend it in the study of the Word of God.
Página 125 - He was told to sell all that he had and give to the poor; and we are told that he went away sorrowing.