Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man, Jilid 2

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J. Johnson, 1803

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Halaman 108 - As a mineral water derives its component parts, its operative powers, and its flavour, from the soil through which it flows; so the ancient character of nations arose from the family features, the climate, the way of life and education, the early actions and employments, that were peculiar to them.
Halaman 107 - Earth whatever could be has been, according to the situation and wants of the place, the circumstances and occasions of the times, and the native or generated character of the people. Admit active human powers, in a determinate relation to the age, and to their place on the Earth, and all the vicissitudes in the history of man will ensue.
Halaman 192 - ... and its development so various. When Phidias had created his omnipotent Jove, a superior Jupiter was not within the reach of possibility ; but the conception was capable of being applied to other gods, and to every god was given his peculiar character ; thus this province of art was peopled. . . . Our youth returns not again ; neither returns the action of our mental faculties as they then were. The very appearance of the flower is a sign that it must fade ; it has drawn to itself the powers...
Halaman 188 - Because Greeks existed; and existed under such circumstances, that they could not be otherwise than enlightened. Why did Alexander invade India? Because he was Alexander, the son of Philip; and from the dispositions his father had made, the deeds of his nation, his age and character, his reading of Homer, &c., knew nothing better, that he could undertake.
Halaman 256 - tis thine alone with awful fway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey ; Difpofing peace, and war, thy own majeftic way.
Halaman 187 - ... complete connexion: and never attempt to explain a thing which is, or happens, by a thing which is not. With this rigorous principle, every thing ideal, all the phantoms of a magic creation, will vanish: it will endeavour to...
Halaman 267 - ... nature of man remains ever the same: in the ten thousandth year of the world he will be born with passions, as he was born with passions in the two thousandth, and ran through his course of follies to a late, imperfect, useless wisdom. We wander in a labyrinth, in which our lives occupy but a span; so that it is to us nearly a matter of indifference, whether there be any entrance or outlet to the intricate path. Melancholy fate of the human race! with all their exertions chained to an Ixion's...
Halaman 191 - ... declined with them. Poetry and certain arts preceded philosophy ; where oratory or the fine arts flourished, neither the patriotic virtues nor the martial spirit could shine with their highest splendor ; the orators of Athens displayed the greatest enthusiasm when the state drew near its end and its integrity was no more. But all kinds of human knowledge have this in common, that each aims at a point of perfection which, when attained by a concatenation of fortunate circumstances, it can neither...
Halaman 306 - Merely from the courfe of time no cave, no wall, aflbrded fecurity: men muft learn to know one another; for collectively they are but one family, on one planet of no great extent.
Halaman 188 - But if we attribute his bold resolution to the secret purposes of some superior power, and his heroic achievements to his peculiar fortune; we run the hazard, on the one hand, of exalting his most senseless and atrocious actions into designs of the deity; and, on the other, of detracting from his personal courage, and military skill; while we deprive the whole occurrence of its natural form.

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