Category: Philosophy & Ethics
When I began to reflect upon this point with reference to a public discussion of it, I put the above questions to three educated men, as I happened to meet them. The first said, he had not thought of it, but that, at the first view, he did not believe there was any such connex...
"In that blest moment, Nature, throwing wide Her veil opaque, discloses, with a smile, The Author of her beauties, who, retired Behind his own creation, works unseen By the _imp...
1. Part 1When I began to reflect upon this point with reference to a public discussion of it, I put the above questions to three educated men, as I happened to meet them. The first said,...
3. Part 3The great difficulty which this theory has to encounter arises from the apparent instantaneousness with which the emotion seems to arise when a beautiful object is presented. Bu...
4. Part 4Having now spoken of the manner in which evil is done by those who care to please rather than to improve mankind, I cannot leave this part of the subject without suggesting, to...