Luther--a hero, fettered, indeed, with prejudices--but with those very fetters he would knock out the brains of a modern _Fort Esprit_.
_Comment._ Frightening by his prejudices, as a spirit does by clanking his chains.
Not only words, as far as relates to speaking, but the knowledge of words as distinct component parts, which we learn by learning to read--what an immense effect it must have on our reasoning faculties! Logical in opposition to real.
Children, in making new words, always do it analogously. Explain this.
Hot-headed men confuse, your cool-headed gentry jumble. The man of warm feelings only produces order and true connection. In what a jumble M. and H. write, every third paragraph beginning with "Let us now return," or "We come now to the consideration of such a thing"--that is, what _I said_ I _would_ come to in the contents prefixed to the chapter.
The thin scattered rain-clouds were scudding along the sky; above them, with a visible interspace, the crescent moon hung, and partook not of the motion; her own hazy light filled up the concave, as if it had been painted and the colours had run.
"He to whom all things are one, who draweth all things to one, and seeth all things in one, may enjoy true peace of mind and rest of spirit."--JEREMY TAYLOR'S _Via Pacis_.
To each reproach that thunders from without may remorse groan an echo.
A prison without ransom, anguish without patience, a sick bed in the house of contempt.
To _think_ of a thing is different from to _perceive_ it, as "to walk" is from to "feel the ground under you;" perhaps in the same way too--namely, a succession of perceptions accompanied by a sense of _nisus_ and purpose.
Space, is it merely another word for the perception of a capability of additional magnitude, or does this very perception presuppose the idea of space? The latter is Kant's opinion.
A babe who had never known greater cruelty than that of being snatched away by its mother for half a moment from the breast in order to be kissed.
To attempt to subordinate the idea of time to that of likeness.
Every man asks _how_? This power to instruct is the true substratum of philosophy.
Godwin's philosophy is contained in these words: _Rationem defectus esse defectum rationis_.--HOBBES.