Man As a Creative First Cause: Two Discourses Delivered At Concord, Mass ...
Man As a Creative First Cause: Two Discourses Delivered At Concord, Mass ...
Rowland Gibson Hazard
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§ 15. Our efforts for change in the sphere within us, excepting, perhaps, those for moral con- struction, are always to increase our knowledge. MAN A CREATIVE FIRST CAUSE. 63 The knowledge sought may be of either sphere. Its immediate object often, perhaps oftenest, is to enable us to decide more wisely as to our action in reference to the actual current events of life ; or it may be for the pleasure we derive from the mental activity in the process, and the success which is almost certain to r...eward our search for truth. We can hardly fail to learn something, if not what we sought. A higher object may be to permanently increase the intellectual power, or, yet higher, to improve our moral nature. § 16. For the acquisition of knowledge by ef- fort, mind has two distinct modes, — observation and reflection. By the former, we note the phe- nomena which are cognized by the senses, and by the latter we trace out the relations among the ideas — the knowledge — we already have in store, and thus obtain new perceptions, new ideas.
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