 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 260 páginas
...works of His 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... | |
 | 1885 - 478 páginas
...the 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... | |
 | Rev. James Wells - 1879 - 320 páginas
...and there 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.... | |
 | 1879 - 652 páginas
...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... | |
 | Walter Henry Hill - 1879 - 288 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1879 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
 | National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America - 1880 - 262 páginas
...body: and hence from Plato to Sir Wm. Hamilton, who inscribed on the walls of his lecture-room : " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind—" an absolute contradiction of facts. Hence a metaphysical mode of reasoning, falsely so-called, for... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1881 - 402 páginas
...they usually end in rough guesses, and rash, extravagant assertions. It has been well said, that " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." We are, therefore, to contemplate a minute, but very important part of what is greatest in the greatest... | |
 | 1881 - 654 páginas
...put, shows that in the estimation of Christ one man was worth all the sheep on a thousand hills. " On earth there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mind." Nevertheless, the human soul as really needs to be shepherded as the sheep of the mountain ; and for... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1881 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
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... 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. 
