The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed. Autobiography - Page 143by John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1873 - 824 pages
...sound: ' The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the...seemed capable of being instrumental to that object." Unluckily he did not maintain the due balance. He ran off into the opposite extreme, and suffered feeling... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 600 pages
...as well as the active capacities, and required to be nourished and enriched as well as guided. . . . The cultivation of the feelings became one of the...to find meaning in the things which I had read or htard about the importance of poetry and art'as instruments of human culture. But it was some time... | |
| William Anderson - 1874 - 162 pages
..." The maintenance of a due " balance among the faculties now seemed to me " of primary importance. The cultivation of the " feelings became one of the...degree " towards whatever seemed capable of being instm" mental to that object." The rest of the memoir regards the several attempts which he had made... | |
| James Simson - American literature - 1875 - 222 pages
...of others, such as cultivation of the feelings, and maintaining a due balance among the faculties. " The cultivation of the feelings became one of the...seemed capable of being instrumental to that object " (p. 144) [such as poetry, but nothing in regard to religion]. " The only one of the imaginative arts... | |
| Medicine - 1885 - 498 pages
...with it. The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the...about the importance of poetry and art as instruments ojf human culture. But it was some time longer before I bjegan to know this by personal experience."... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 pages
...as well as the active capacities, and required to be nourished and enriched as well as guided. . . . The cultivation of the feelings became one of the...cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed. ... I now began to find meaning in the things which I had read or heard about the importance of poetry... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 pages
...as well as the active capacities, and required to be nourished and enriched as well as guided. . . . The cultivation of the feelings became one of the...cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed. ... I now began to find meaning in the things which I had read or heard about the importance of poetry... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1898 - 812 pages
...limitations in this respect he was led to put forth special efforts to overcome this conscious deficiency. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in his ethical and philosophical creed. There is a dalicionsly naive remark In Mill.s Autobiography upon... | |
| ANZAAS (Association) - Australia - 1903 - 1032 pages
...of my ethical and philosophical creed." Very significant for us is the sentence which follows: — "I now began to find (meaning in the things which I had read and heard about the importance of poetry and art as instruments of human culture." When Mill had thus... | |
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