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" It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. "
Principles of ethics - Page 444
by Herbert Spencer - 1898
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 22

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1863 - 878 pages
...man. The thinker is a product of the age, — a descendant of the past, a parent of the future ; and " his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die." He is one of the agencies through whom works the Unknown Cause ; and the beliefs which that Cause produces...
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Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2

James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...nil his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the...and that his thoughts are as children born to him, whom he may not carelessly let die. He, like every other man, may properly consider himself as one...
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Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2

James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a deseenJant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and that his thought* are as children born to him, whom he may not carelessly let die. He, like every other man,...
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 650 pages
...all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he ia a parent of the future; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1865 - 528 pages
...all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the...properly consider himself as one of the myriad agencies ~^Blrough]jwhom works the Unknown Causej and when the Unknown Cause produces in him a certain belief,...
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De Levensbode, Part 1

1865 - 700 pages
...his capacities and aspirations and beliefs , is not an accident but a product of the time. He mnst remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future; and that his thonghts are as children , born to him , which he may not carelessly let die. Not as adventitions will...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1872 - 602 pages
...leaving it to produce what effect it may. It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympa thies with some principles and repugnance to others. He,...born to him, which he may not carelessly let die. lie, like every other man, may properly consider himself as one of the myriad agencies through whom...
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 pages
...with all his capacities and aspirations and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the...born to him, which he may not carelessly let die. Not as adventitious, therefore, will the wise man regard the faith which is in him. The highest truth...
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 pages
...with all his capacities and aspirations and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the...born to him, which he may not carelessly let die. Not as adventitious, therefore, will the wise man regard the faith which is in him. The highest truth...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1873 - 602 pages
...all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the...born to him, which he may not carelessly let die. Tie, like every other man, may properly consider himself as one of the myriad agencies through whom...
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