 | 1872 - 484 pages
...distinguished in both, — a man who, in his own life, proved the words to be so true — " On Earth, there is nothing great but Man ; In Man, there is nothing great but Mind. " The following Communications were then read : — I. On some Points in the connection between Metamorphism... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1870 - 376 pages
...In vain would any one deny the truth of the favourite aphorism of Sir W. Hamilton — IN THE WORLD THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN. IN MAN THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. LESSON II. THE THREE PARTS OF LOGICAL DOCTRINE. IT has been explained in the previous lesson that Logic... | |
 | Govinda Chandra Ghose - Revelation - 1870 - 78 pages
...is an old proverb, much valued by philosophers in support to their beloved subject, viz., " in earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." The human mind is the best part of nature as it is known to us in our present state. As all the beautiful... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1870 - 216 pages
...writer, which the late Sir William Hamilton used to hang on the wall of his lecture-room : — " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind. " The aphorism, which, like most aphorisms, contains an equal measure of truth and of untruth, is suitable... | |
 | Arminianism - 1870 - 1202 pages
...entering the class-room, the eye was arrested by a motto in gold letters on a dark ground, " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." While musing on that suggestive sentiment, and as if to furnish a living illustration of its truth,... | |
 | Raphael De Cordova Lewin - Judaism - 1870 - 94 pages
...God and man is man's reason. " * So also a profound thinker of modern times has asserted, "On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind."1 These are powerful assertions, and they are true. Man is the masterpiece of creation, and it... | |
 | James Edmund Garretson - 1871 - 268 pages
...the summing up in his third lecture, he repudiates the aphorism of Sir William Hamilton : " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." But he has done it on such insufficient grounds (in the arguments of his book) that they have failed... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Mind and body - 1871 - 180 pages
...writer, which the late Sir William Hamilton used to hang on the wall of his lecture-room : " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." The aphorism, which, like most aphorisms, contains an equal measure of truth and untruth, is suitable... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 214 pages
...excellence of nature, paying the same noble tribute to humanity as Kant some centuries after : " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." Truth is a law of our nature. Man is only " lower than the angels ; " and to him belong prer gatives... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 222 pages
...excellence of nature, paying the same noble tribute to humanity as Kant some centuries after : " On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." Truth is a law of our nature. Man is only " lower than the angels ; " and to him belong prerogatives... | |
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... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind. 
