 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 222 페이지
...inherent excellence of nature, paying the same noble tribute to humanity as Kant some centuries after : " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." Truth is a law of our nature. Man is only " lower than the angels ; " and to him belong prerogatives... | |
 | James Edmund Garretson - 1871 - 268 페이지
...itself. In the summing up in his third lecture, he repudiates the aphorism of Sir William Hamilton : " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." But he has done it on such insufficient grounds (in the arguments of his book) that they have failed... | |
 | Marcus Tullius. [Appendix.] Cicero, William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 220 페이지
...inherent excellence of nature, paying the same noble tribute to humanity as Kant some centuries after : " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." Truth is a law of our nature. Man is only " lower than the angels ; " and to him belong prerogatives... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1871 - 180 페이지
...an old writer, which the late Sir William Hamilton used to hang on the wall of his lecture-room : " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." The aphorism, which, like most aphorisms, contains an equal measure of truth and untruth, is suitable... | |
 | 1872 - 554 페이지
...to extinguish an earthly light than a heavenly light ? "-T. ShaUath. VOL. II.— 3 GEMS OF THOUGHT. ON earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind. — Sir William Hamilton. The angel that communicates between God and man is man's reason. — Maim... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1872 - 180 페이지
...an old writer, which the late Sir William Hamilton used to hang on the wall of his lecture-room : " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." The aphorism, which, like most aphorisms, contains an equal measure of truth and untruth, is suitable... | |
 | 1873 - 578 페이지
...speaking to the students. Above his head, traced in letters that yet look fresh, are the words — " On earth there is nothing great but man : In man there is nothing great but mind." Then underneath this are the tablets containing the names of those who distinguished themselves in... | |
 | Robert French - 1873 - 358 페이지
...study of mankind is man." Sir Wm. Hamilton has chosen, as the motto of his philosophical writings, " On earth there is nothing great but man. In man there is nothing great but mind." Let the philosopher abide within this sphere, and we defy the possibility of conflict. Let him take... | |
 | Birdsey Grant Northrop - 1873 - 192 페이지
...satisfy the soul, and rise evermore above its soaring thoughts, no other justify the ancient maxim, — "On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." Such a clear consciousness of the lofty powers which God has implanted in the human soul, their laws... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 페이지
...MIND. The mind is it's own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. Milton. " On earth there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mind." MISUNDERSTANDING. Misunderstanding and inattention create more uneasiness in the world than deception... | |
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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. 
