| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 pages
...similitude of God.' Dr. Taylor's philosophy and theology accorded with that saying, ' In the world there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind ; in mind there is nothing great but what is moral.' To refer all our knowledge, even the knowledge... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...MACLACHLAN,, STEWART, AND CO. ; AND I OSDOÄ : LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN AND LONGMANS. M1XJCCXLVI. I ON EARTH, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN; IN MAN, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. то VICTOR COUSIN, РЕЕВ OF FRANCE, LATE MINISTER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JIE3IBER OF THE INSTITUTE,... | |
| 1847 - 910 pages
...of the grandeur of the MIND, and in showing the duty of cultivating it. " On earth," says Pascal, " there is nothing great but man • — in man there is nothing great but mind." Its health consists in the development, harmony, and activity of its powers, and depends on knowledge.... | |
| Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1923 - 116 pages
...whether immatured or broken afterward, is a State's menace in proportion to its spread. "In the world, there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind." It is the rapid multiplying of grown people with child minds that is our nation's greatest danger now.... | |
| Robert Anchor Thompson - 1855 - 522 pages
...atoms. But this is only the beginning of its difficulty. Man is the wonder of creation. " In earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." Such, however, is not the doctrine of the atheist. He must rob the mind of every thing that makes it... | |
| John Tulloch - 1855 - 418 pages
...man in His own image." The same truth is classically expressed in the memorial words — " In nature there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." According to this view, man, while in the very fact of his present existence a product of nature, is... | |
| John Tulloch - 1855 - 400 pages
...man in His own image." The same truth is classically expressed in the memorial words — " In nature there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." According to this view, man, while in the very fact of his present existence a product of nature, is... | |
| University of Edinburgh - 1857 - 430 pages
...before him in the dawning light of a new experience. The visible motto of that world — " On Earth there is nothing great but Man ; in Man there is nothing great but Mind" — seemed at once to reverse the previous views of history and life. All manifestations of mere material... | |
| Aristotle - 1857 - 306 pages
...researches in Ethics led him to modify. But he never would have accepted the saying, ' In the world there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind' — and as we may surely go on to add, ' in mind there is nothing great but what is moral.' We can... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1858 - 64 pages
...and Sir William Hamilton's well known motto, prefixed to his edition of Reid's works, was, " On earth there is nothing great but Man ; in Man there is nothing great but Mind." Pervaded with the good impression these passages convey, and remembering with Fenelon that, though... | |
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