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The time is come for studying the moral anatomy of man also, and for uncovering its most afflicting aspects, with the view of providing remedies.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
It is a remarkable fact in the history of science, that the more extended human knowledge has become, the more limited human power, in that respect, has constantly appeared.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Society prepares the crime, and the guilty are only the instruments by which it is executed.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
But is the anatomy of man not a more painful science still?
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
We must conceive the same distinctions in the moral world.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Ought charges of materialism to be brought against him who points out that regularity?
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
And yet who dreams this day of raising his voice against the study?
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Timorous persons have raised the cry of fatalism.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
In every instance, it is not my method that is defective; proper observations alone fail me.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
My aim has been, not only to go once more through the task of Albert Durer, but to execute it also on an extended scale.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
I have been surprised to find how little variety of opinion exists, in different places, regarding what they concurred in terming the beautiful.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
And wherefore? Because we are thoroughly convinced that laws, education, and religion exercise a salutary influence on society, and that moral causes have their certain effects.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Expect not... that efforts for the moral regeneration of man can be immediately crowned with success; operations upon masses are ever slow in progress, and their effects distant.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Limits... seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
It would be an error... to suppose that science makes the artist; yet it lends to him the most powerful assistance.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
To him... who had examined the laws of light merely in a drop of water, the brilliant phenomenon of the rainbow would be totally unintelligible.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
As laws and the principles of religion and morality are influencing causes, I have then not only the hope, but, what you have not, the positive conviction, that society may be ameliorated and reformed.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Having for their object the Science of Man, present difficulties exceedingly great, and, to merit confidence, must be collected upon a scale far too extended to be attempted by an individual philosopher.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
The progressive development of moral and intellectual man has scarcely occupied their [scientists] attention; nor have they noted how the faculties of his mind are at every age influenced by those of the body, nor how his faculties mutually react.
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)