Word: dependables
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first consider what are the implications of the determinist view. If our acts depend entirely on our present circumstances and character, and our characters on past circumstances and the circumstances of our parents, it is evident that all things are perfectly determined. For the past cannot be changed, and as the future flows out of the past by a necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from...
...difficulty, however, recurs here. If the will is evolved out of the man's nature and this nature is necessarily what it is, how does he choose his act, how is he free? A man's acts depend on his character, which includes his will, reacting on his circumstances. His character is itself the result of circumstances and of the characters of his parents. The question now arises: if we carry our inquiry back far enough, shall we arrive at a point where intellect and will are swallowed up in mechanical forces of which they are the slowly evolved product...
...under the new arrangement of a reduced force of clerks, must continue to do. It is to him more than to anyone else that we owe the continuance of co-operation at Harvard. We trust that the students may never allow the existence of the Co-operative Society to depend on the exertions of one man again...
...with a good man in charge of the observatory, great results may be expected. Let us hope that an astronomor, skilled in his science and enthusiastic in his work, may be chosen for the place; for on him more than on the instruments will the reputation of the observatory depend...
...than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show a record of longer service faithfully performed. Another leader has fallen, another gap been made in the ranks of those whom the university and its students have been accustomed to depend on and look up to respectively as the educational forces of Cambridge...