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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 44 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 9 1 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1860., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 4 0 Browse Search
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Free thought. (search)
o far. An automaton automatically reflecting on its automatic character is a being which seems to defy conception. The connection of action with motive, of motive with character and circumstance, is what nobody doubts; but the precise nature of the connection, as it is not subject, like a physical connection, to our inspection, defies scrutiny, and our consciousness, which is our only informant, tells that our agency in some qualified sense is free. The all-embracing philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer excludes not only the supernatural but theism in its ordinary form. Yet theism in a subtle form may be thought to lurk in it. By continually seeking, he says, to know, and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as the Unknowable. Unknowableness in itself excites no reverence, even though it be su
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Single tax, (search)
and, without knowing anything of Quesnay and his doctrines, I have reached the same practical conclusion. In 1850 Herbert Spencer published his first book, Social Statics. The ninth chapter of this book, which is entitled The right to the use ofay be to embody in fact the theory of the co-heirship of all men to the soil, equity sternly demands it to be done. Mr. Spencer's views, however, do not appear to have moved any considerable number of men to take practical action towards rightingything relating to land is omitted, and the new book was accompanied by a publisher's advertisement to the effect that Mr. Spencer had abandoned the views contained in the old edition. Mr. Spencer in abandoning or withdrawing his original views in Mr. Spencer in abandoning or withdrawing his original views in this connection neglected, however, to disprove them. Other writers and apologists of the existing order sprang up by scores during the controversial period between 1880 and 1894, and many answers to Progress and Poverty were given to the world.