Inhaltsangabe
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. 1872. Excerpt: ... COLERIDGE. More than enough has perhaps been said in disparagement of the eighteenth century. It is not therefore to speak more evil of that much abused time, but merely to note an obvious fact, if I say that its main tendency was towards the outward and the finite. Just freed from the last ties of feudalism, escaped too from long religious conflicts which had resulted in war and revolution, the feelings of the British people took a new direction; the nation's energies were wholly turned to the pacific working out of its material and industrial resources. Let us leave those deep, interminable questions, which, as experience has shown, lead only to confusion, and let us stick to plain, obvious facts, which cannot mislead, and which yield such comfortable results. This was the genius and temper of the generation that followed the Revolution of 1688. Nor was there wanting a man to give definite shape and expression to this tendency of the national mind,, Locke, a shrewd and practical man, who knew the world, furnished his countrymen with a way of thinking singularly in keeping with their then temper; a philosophy which, discarding abstruse ideas, fashioned thought mainly out of the senses; an ethical system founded on the selfish instincts of pleasure and pain; and a political theory which, instead of the theocratic dreams of the Puritans or the divine right of HighChurchmen, or the historic traditions of feudalism, grounded government on the more prosaic but not less unreal phantasy of an original contract. This whole philosophy, however inconsistent with what is noblest in British history, was so congenial a growth of the British soil, that no other has ever struck so deep a root, or spread so wide, and with such endearing influence. This way of thinking, ...
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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. 1872. Excerpt: ... COLERIDGE. More than enough has perhaps been said in disparagement of the eighteenth century. It is not therefore to speak more evil of that much abused time, but merely to note an obvious fact, if I say that its main tendency was towards the outward and the finite. Just freed from the last ties of feudalism, escaped too from long religious conflicts which had resulted in war and revolution, the feelings of the British people took a new direction; the nation's energies were wholly turned to the pacific working out of its material and industrial resources. Let us leave those deep, interminable questions, which, as experience has shown, lead only to confusion, and let us stick to plain, obvious facts, which cannot mislead, and which yield such comfortable results. This was the genius and temper of the generation that followed the Revolution of 1688. Nor was there wanting a man to give definite shape and expression to this tendency of the national mind,, Locke, a shrewd and practical man, who knew the world, furnished his countrymen with a way of thinking singularly in keeping with their then temper; a philosophy which, discarding abstruse ideas, fashioned thought mainly out of the senses; an ethical system founded on the selfish instincts of pleasure and pain; and a political theory which, instead of the theocratic dreams of the Puritans or the divine right of HighChurchmen, or the historic traditions of feudalism, grounded government on the more prosaic but not less unreal phantasy of an original contract. This whole philosophy, however inconsistent with what is noblest in British history, was so congenial a growth of the British soil, that no other has ever struck so deep a root, or spread so wide, and with such endearing influence. This way of thinking, ...
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