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Page 324
... feeling to settle the matter is short and pointed : All experience shows that " moral feelings " are eminently arti- ficial , and the product of culture ; that the most senseless and perni- cious " feelings " can be raised to the utmost ...
... feeling to settle the matter is short and pointed : All experience shows that " moral feelings " are eminently arti- ficial , and the product of culture ; that the most senseless and perni- cious " feelings " can be raised to the utmost ...
Page 367
... feels it to be good or right . Of these qualities we may say that their esse is percipi . Therefore , the moralist ... feeling it to be wrong . Now , what particular consciousness in the universe can enjoy this prerogative of obliging ...
... feels it to be good or right . Of these qualities we may say that their esse is percipi . Therefore , the moralist ... feeling it to be wrong . Now , what particular consciousness in the universe can enjoy this prerogative of obliging ...
Page 458
... feeling is the practical discipline which the character obtains from the occa- sional demand made upon the citizens to exercise , for a time and in their turn , some social function . It is not sufficiently considered how little there ...
... feeling is the practical discipline which the character obtains from the occa- sional demand made upon the citizens to exercise , for a time and in their turn , some social function . It is not sufficiently considered how little there ...
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