Lectures On Humanism With Special Reference to Its Bearings On Sociology
Lectures On Humanism With Special Reference to Its Bearings On Sociology
J S John Stuart Mackenzie
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E. Of ydfios, as opposed to (prj^a. It is, I believe, true to say that the conception of " laws of nature " was practi- y 54 LECTURES ON HUMANISM (further to emphasize the distinction between the i purposive person and the mechanically driven jvthing. Even the increasing dominance of material conditions in modem times has perhaps tended to make us feel more keenly the contrast between the instruments and circumstances of Hfe and life itself. jWhen Emerson tells us " *Tis the day of the chattel,... Web to weave and com to grind ; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind, " r we probably feel the sting of the antithesis as no \ ancient could have felt it. F It is largely on account of the increasing sharpness of this contrast that both naturalism and humanism have acquired a signifi- cance for us that they could hardly have possessed at any earlier period. Naturalism, in its most modem sense, has been made possible by that definite conception of the system of the physical universe which has been slowly built up by the natural sciences, aided by certain philosophical conceptions derived in the main, I think we may fairly say, from the ancient atomists and the modem Cartesians.
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