 | Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 pàgines
...of an admonition: — Whenever I make use of the expression ••nature produces an effect," I have no intention of personifying- that nature which is purely an abstract being." But he talks of the LAWS or NATUHE. Is she a lawgiver? The laws of a stone are just as puissant as... | |
 | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') - 1836 - 380 pàgines
...whenever, in the course of tms work, the expression occurs, that " Nature produces such or such an effect," there is no intention of personifying that...compose the mighty (macrocosm. When, therefore, it is safd, Nature demands that man should pursue his own happiness, it is to prevent circumlocution, to... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1839 - 556 pàgines
...by way of admonition. " Whenever I make use of the expression, 'nature produces an effect,' I have no intention of personifying that nature which is purely an abstract being." But he talks of the LAWS OF NATURE. Is she a lawgiver ? The laws of a stone are just as puissant as... | |
 | Thomas J. Vaiden - 1855 - 358 pàgines
...only hear the Baron, (p. 16,) who says, when he uses the expression, "Nature produces such or such an effect," "there is no intention of personifying that...those beings which compose the mighty macrocosm." That is, nature acts — yet she is "an abstract being." This is "confusion worse confounded." The... | |
 | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') - 1889 - 380 pàgines
...whenever, in the course of this work, the expression or.curs, that " Nature produces such or such an effect, " there is no intention of personifying that...therefore, it is said, Nature demands that man should pursu.f his own happiness, it is to prevent circumlocution, to avoid tautology ; it is to be understood... | |
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Nature produces such or such an effect," there is no intention of personifying that nature which is purely an abstract being; it merely indicates that the effect spoken of necessarily springs from the peculiar properties of those beings which compose... 