Religious and Moral Ideas in the Novels of George EliotUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963 - 398 pages |
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... action becomes automatic . It is this automatic action of the world force that we call natural law . This law determines all motion and emotion and " the self of the conscious being is nothing but an object of observation , known only ...
... action becomes automatic . It is this automatic action of the world force that we call natural law . This law determines all motion and emotion and " the self of the conscious being is nothing but an object of observation , known only ...
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... action , therefore , with which we suppose ourselves to be endowed , is a delusion . " 42 Such a rigid law of necessity was unacceptable to her ; her emphasis falls rather on man's moral responsibility and the burden of choice . Again ...
... action , therefore , with which we suppose ourselves to be endowed , is a delusion . " 42 Such a rigid law of necessity was unacceptable to her ; her emphasis falls rather on man's moral responsibility and the burden of choice . Again ...
Page 84
... action , howsoever lofty , done for some ulterior motive , cannot be called truly moral . She believed that compensations for virtuous action offered by dogmatic religion in a life hereafter vitiated all morality and in a letter to John ...
... action , howsoever lofty , done for some ulterior motive , cannot be called truly moral . She believed that compensations for virtuous action offered by dogmatic religion in a life hereafter vitiated all morality and in a letter to John ...
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