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Página 24 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Página vii - Philbrick offered the following resolution, which was adopted. Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed...
Página 14 - It cannot be a -pious act to underrate these powers, given as they were by him who made the soul in his image. Our speculative tendencies are original, legitimate parts of the constitution which it is irreverent to censure. We must speculate. We must define, distinguish, infer, arrange our inferences in a system. Our spiritual oneness, completeness, progress, require it. We lose our civilization, so far forth as we depreciate a philosophy truly so called. Our faith becomes a wild or weak sentimentalism...
Página xii - Boston ; Joseph Hale, Boston ; Joshua Bates, Jr., Boston. Counsellors. Daniel Mansfield, Cambridge ; Samuel W. King, Lynn ; DP Galloup, Lowell ; AA Gamwell, Providence, RI ; Elbridge Smith, Cambridge ; Solomon Jenner, New York ; FN Blake, Barnstable ; Charles Hutchins, Providence, RI ; Leonard Hazletine, New York ; David S.
Página 6 - Principles which have their lodgment in the artist's mind, when unfolded by our speculative powers into systematic shape, become Science, is true; but it is precisely this process of development which gives to them their character of Science. In practical Art, principles are unseen guides, leading us by invisible strings through paths where the end alone is looked at : it is for Science to direct and purge our vision so that these airy ties, these principles and laws, generalizations and theories,...
Página xiv - Tenn., submitted the following resolution, which was carried : Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the Chair, to report at the next meeting of the Association, the best means for preventing the introduction of disease by emigrants into our country.
Página xi - Vice Presidents — Samuel Pettes, Roxbury ; Barnas Sears, Providence, RI ; Gideon F. Thayer, Boston ; Benjamin Greenleaf, Bradford ; Daniel Kimball, Needham ; William Russell, Lancaster ; Henry Barnard, Hartford, Conn. ; William H. Wells, Chicago, ill.
Página x - Geo. N. Briggs, Pittsfield ; Benj. Greenleaf, Bradford ; Dan'l Kimball, Needham ; Wm. Russell, Lancaster ; Henry Barnard, Hartford, Conn. ; Wm. H. Wells, Newburyport ; Dyer H. Sanborn, Hopkinton, NH ; Alfred...
Página 25 - I know that he has desired that they should enter from the heart into the mind, and not from the mind into the heart...
Página xi - Gushing, Jr., Boston ; Rufus Putnam, Salem ; Ariel Parish, Springfield ; Leander Wetherell, Rochester, NY ; Ethan A. Andrews, New Britain, Ct. ; Thomas Baker, Gloucester; John Batchelder, Lynn ; Daniel Leach, Roxbury ; Amos Perry, Providence, RI ; Nathan...