 | Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 428 pages
...phase of the progress of humanity, and his limited sympathy with the thoughts and feelings, labours and aspirations, of his fellow-men. And if there be...various degrees of conquest over the world of sense. When the most fascinating of ancient philosophers taught, but the first step of this conquest had been... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 404 pages
...phase of the progress of humanity, and his limited sympathy with the thoughts and feelings, labours and aspirations, of his fellow-men. And if there be...various degrees of conquest over the world of sense. When the most fascinating of ancient philosophers taught, but the first step of this conquest had been... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Sidgwick - Culture - 1904 - 404 pages
...phase of the progress of humanity, and his limited sympathy with the thoughts and feelings, labours and aspirations, of his fellow-men. And if there be...various degrees of conquest over the world of sense. When the most fascinating of ancient philosophers taught, but the first step of this conquest had been... | |
 | Bart Schultz - Philosophy - 2004 - 886 pages
...may he especially urged how poorh equipped a man comes to such a study, however competent he may he to interpret the thoughts of ancient thinkers, if...comprehensively and closely, the wonderful scale of methods hy which the human mind has achieved its various degrees of conquest over the world of sense. When... | |
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... draws to itself an ever increasing amount of intellectual energy ; so that the intellectual man who has been trained without it must feel at every turn his inability to comprehend thoroughly the present phase of the progress of humanity, and his limited... 