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An Ethical Treatise on the Passions Volume 2; Founded on the Principles Investigated in the Philosophical Treatise epub

An Ethical Treatise on the Passions Volume 2; Founded on the Principles Investigated in the Philosophical Treatise epub

An Ethical Treatise on the Passions Volume 2; Founded on the Principles Investigated in the Philosophical Treatise by Thomas Cogan
An Ethical Treatise on the Passions Volume 2; Founded on the Principles Investigated in the Philosophical Treatise
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Author: Thomas Cogan
Number of Pages: 108 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236042125
File size: 15 Mb
File Name: An.Ethical.Treatise.on.the.Passions.Volume.2;.Founded.on.the.Principles.Investigated.in.the.Philosophical.Treatise.pdf
Download Link: An Ethical Treatise on the Passions Volume 2; Founded on the Principles Investigated in the Philosophical Treatise
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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. 1807 Excerpt: ...manifest the distance of the savage from the forest beasts which surround him; and it is thro' the medium of these, that human nature is able to emerge from a rude and savage state to the highest degree of culture and civilization; is able to advance from the simple supply of its necessities to the enjoyment of innumerable comforts, elegancies and luxuries; from ignorance to a degree of knowledge which approximates man to a superior class of beings. It is through the inventive faculties that the social principle in man enjoys the advantages of sociality. By the intercommunication of ideas, ignorant mortals acquire degrees of knowledge that are an astonishment to themselves; and by their combined efforts, weak mortals contrive and execute plans, the importance and magnitude of which almost exceed belief. Mountains are levelled into plains; barren wastes rendered productive; unhealthy climes become salubrious; nutrition is varied and augmented to keep pace with increasing population; vessels are constructed to unite distant nations; languages are formed to express our multiplied ideas; and symbols invented by which to communicate them to the remotest distance, and hand them down to the latest posterity! Human faculties have studied the vital mechanism of the human frame; the laws by which it is governed and preserved. They enable us to disco ver the noxious or salutary properties of surrounding bodies; to escape the former, and appropriate the latter. Human faculties command the elements. They render the raging fire subservient to our purpose; subduing bodies the most refractory, and transmuting them into substances that administer, in numberless ways, to the convenience and comforts of life. The winds, the mighty current, and still more powerful vapour, beco...

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