Man and his Dwelling Place: An Essay towards the by James Hinton

By James Hinton

Background recollects James Hinton as a winning health care professional and writer of books and articles on body structure and ethics. A proficient philosopher and communicator, Hinton was once good put to handle the connection among technological know-how and faith in an age whilst the 2 have been pitted opposed to one another. First released in 1859, a similar 12 months because the starting place of Species, guy and His residing position takes an ambitiously huge view of the human , addressing tricky issues from technological know-how, faith, philosophy and ethics. Hinton's arguments opposed to outmoded methods of considering and his method of human nature have been progressive, and he took pains to handle readers' doubts in a chain of question-and-answer dialogues on the finish of the ebook. Hinton's impassioned plea for a bolder spirit of enquiry to raised interpret human life assures this e-book a major position within the heritage of technological know-how and the knowledge of Darwin's highbrow context.

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But the phenomenon is found to be inert, before it is recognised to be only a phenomenon. It is found to be inert while it is still supposed to BE. Thus the notion of inert existence comes to be entertained, and grows familiar insidiously, so that its impossibility is overlooked; and men who maintain that the things that are to us are but phenomena, and do not truly exist, still regard the fact of nature, which does exist, virtually as inert. C. ] OF THE LAWS OF NATURE. 45 the glory and the joy of man.

Compelled on the one hand to be sure that the universe has a true existence, and on the other unable to know that to which this true existence belongs, the issue has been unavoidable; we must have been under illusion, and have believed that to be which is not. This last fruit of investigation, the discovery that man cannot know by sense or intellect the true 'being' of nature, brings into harmony all the various thoughts of men, and shows to what end they have been working. For men could not understand that this was their true relation to nature, until through long and varied experience the conviction had been forced upon them.

But we need not marvel; it is the difference of life and death; piercing the dimness even of man's darkened sense, jarring upon his fond illusion like waking realities upon a dream. Without is living holiness, within is deathly wrong. 43 CHAPTER III. OP THE ILLUSTRATION FROM ASTRONOMY. —I know not how it is, Socrates, you appear to me to speak well. —PLATO : Gorgias. difficulty which is naturally felt in conJL ceiving that the fact which causes our experience is spiritual may be much diminished by the aid of analogy.

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