I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life. Autobiography - Page 67by John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1874 - 900 pages
...fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy;...be made the principal outward purpose of a life."* Bentham sought to save the ethics of utility by generalizing the principle of self-interest into that... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1874 - 516 pages
...understood and applied it, gave unity to his hitherto detached and fragmentary conceptions, and he adds, " I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy,...be made the principal outward purpose of a life." He says in another important passage that/" the best of unbelievers are more genuinely religious in... | |
| James Simson - American literature - 1875 - 222 pages
...time. The first one he acquired by reading the TraM de Legislation, and it is thus described : *— " I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy...principal outward purpose of a life. And I had a grand [Utopian] conception laid before me of changes to be effected in the condition of mankind through that... | |
| Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...— can be made consistent with one, with a religion " in one of the best senses of the word " — of a religion " the inculcation and diffusion of which...made the principal outward purpose of a life," and would thus supply an object of practical devotion ! An answer, if it did not suggest itself, would... | |
| Criticism - 1877 - 824 pages
...fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy...word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of ^hich could be made the principal outward purpose of a life." In his seventeenth year an appointment... | |
| 1877 - 900 pages
...being. It was the dropping of the keystone into the arch of previously fragmentary belief. It gave him "a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy: in one among the...religion ; the inculcation and diffusion of which would be made the principal outward purpose of a life." The progress of the race would be henceforward... | |
| George Spencer Bower - Enlightenment - 1881 - 296 pages
...first read and studied Bentham, and of the confidence with which he felt that he had found in him " a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion," with the description of his own state, when his education, with its precocious and premature tendency... | |
| John Tulloch - Great Britain - 1885 - 360 pages
...and fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and belief. It gave unity to my conception of things. I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy, in one among the best senses of the word,' he adds, ' a religion.' In the following year he began to write independently. In 1823 he was appointed... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 1590 pages
...which he had read four or five years before, formed the keystone of his previous position. It gave him 'a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among...be made the principal outward purpose of a life.' The crisis under which his enthusiasm for his old creed and opinions broke down was attributed by himself... | |
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