Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames: One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and One of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland Containing Sketches of the Progress of Literature and General Improvement I
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames: One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and One of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland Containing Sketches of the Progress of Literature and General Improvement I
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...and luxury, are the diseases that weaken prosperous nations. These dis-" eases following each other in a train, cor-" rupt the heart, dethrone the moral sense, " and make an anarchy in the soul. Such j.are the outlines of the progress of mora-" lity, from birth to burial."---In this branch of his subject, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...and luxury, are the diseases that weaken prosperous nations. These dis-" eases following each other in a train, cor-" rupt the heart, dethrone the moral sense, " and make an anarchy in the soul. Such j.are the outlines of the progress of mora-" lity, from birth to burial."---In this branch of his subject, the Author founds every step of his reasoning upon the evidence of historical facts; referring for the most part to the authorities on which they rest, and thus making the reader himself the judge of the weight and credit to be ascribed to them, and of their aptitude to support his speculative.conclusions f. The.last divisipn of the work embraces 6y' the Principles and Progress of Theology. In this important inquiry, although the Sketches of the History of Man, Book m. Sk. 2. sect 2. t It must be owned, however, that the Author is not always so careful in this respect as he ought to have been. Many facts which occurred in the course of his reading, seem to have been entered in his common-place book without a reference to the authors from whom they are taken. Author's propensity to multiply instinctive principles is visible in the very first step of his investigation, the error, (for it is palpably sueh); is not of any serious consequence to the subsequent reasoning. It matters little whether that most important of all truths, the existence of a Deity, rest for its evidence upon an innate sense, common to man with the ordinary affections of his nature, or whether it be the result of a process of reasoning so simple, as to present itself invariably to the mind, with the first deve-lopernent of its rational powers. The latter was the Author's opinion, .in common with other philosophers, when he treated this subject in his early work, the Essays on...
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