Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution

Jacob Gould Schurman

Franklin Classics Trade Press

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. 1902 Excerpt: ...of spiritual processes invisible to the rest of mankind. He is also a chemist whose crucible is reflective thought. And in it he tests the elements which have hitherto passed as independent and indissoluble constituents of human belief. It may very well happen, therefore, that a theory which was stable enough for earlier thought will fail to produce conviction in us. Only since reason is everywhere one and the same, the philosopher must recognize in that primitive theory a relative truth. And in dealing with the grounds of belief in God, it is especially important that we should distinguish the formulas, more or less imperfect, in which they have been expressed, from the essential substance and content which philosophy reflecting upon them sees to have been already involved in the religious consciousness of the rudest thinkers though they themselves were unaware of it. Im Anfang war die That: This profound saying of Goethe's means in the present case that the act and fact of man's apprehension of God preceded his meditating afterthought of it. And this situation of affairs deserves more consideration than it generally receives. That the human spirit is, as a matter of fact, in possession of the idea of God is an argument for the existence of God unless it can be shown that certain ideas, though uniformly produced, are insubstantial pageants of the phantasy. It is no reply to say that all men once believed in the motion of the sun round the earth. Science does reveal to us modes of behavior of things, of which our ancestors unskilled in experiment and artificial observation could have no suspicion. And the scientific interpretation of the fuller body of facts naturally differs from the prescientific interpretation of the narrowfield of unassisted perception....

Belief in God; its origin, nature, and basis

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Excerpt from The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 The expulsion Of the Turks from Europe was long ago written in the book Of fate. There was nothing uncertain about it except the date and the agency Of destiny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 (Classic Reprint)

History

Europe

Forgotten Books

"There has broken out and is now in progress a war which is generally regarded as the greatest of all time-a war already involving five of the six Great Powers and three of the smaller nations of Europe as well as Japan and Turkey..." So opens this second edition of the classic history published mere months after the first in 1914 and prompted by the rapidly devolving global political situation. Students of World War I and war reportage will find a stunning immediacy and a journalistic urgency in this recounting of a war that turned out to be but a mere skirmish preceding a much larger conflagration, told by a diplomat on the scene: the author, a former philosophy professor, served as U.S. minister to Greece and Montenegro during the Balkan Wars. AUTHOR BIO: JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN (1854-1942) was born on Prince Edward Island and educated in Britain and Germany, but spent much of his life in the service of government and education in the United States. In 1892, he was named Cornell University's third President, and during his 28-year tenure advanced the causes of academic freedom and intellectual liberalism. His wide-ranging diplomatic missions-embarked upon during his years as Cornell's president-took him around the globe to postings in the Pacific, Europe, and China.

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913

Cosimo Classics

The Balkan Wars; 1912-1913

Middle East

Classical Reprints

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