 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 ページ
...its present empirical state, and can never be raised to the rank of a science. We shall thus be led to one vast question, -which indeed lies at the root...result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest. For,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 694 ページ
...discussion in the first chapter furnishes a key to the greater part of the speculations which follow. It is this : Are the actions of men, and therefore of societies,...result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? — a question so loosely framed, and so little in harmony in its wording with the author's own subsequent... | |
 | 1858 - 878 ページ
...Buckle opens his work with an inquiry, which lies, he observes, at the root of the whole subject : " Are the actions of men, and, therefore, of societies,...fixed laws; or are they the result either of chance or supernatural interference ?" He then traces briefly the way in which the notions of chance and fate... | |
 | 1858 - 456 ページ
...all this, he pretends to begin from persons. The fundamental question of his book is thus stated : " Are the actions of men, and therefore of societies,...fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or supernatural interference ?"* He discusses these latter alternatives, not mathematically, or metaphysically,... | |
 | 1858 - 798 ページ
...remain in its present empirical state, and never rise to the rank of a science. The question, he says, is simply this — " Are the actions of men and, therefore, of societies, governed by fixed laws, or arc they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference 1" Two obstacles must be cleared... | |
 | 1858 - 770 ページ
...remain in its present empirical state, and never rise to the rank of a science. The question, he says, is simply this — Are the actions of men and, therefore, of societies, governed by fixed tews, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference V Two obstacles must... | |
 | 1858 - 492 ページ
...only an empirical narrative of facts. But the question comes, Is it so ? Are the actions of men and societies governed by fixed laws, or are they the result either of blind chance or of supernatural interference ? In regard to all events there are two doctrines which... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 ページ
...its present empirical state, and can never be raised to the rank of a science. We shall thus be led to one vast question, which indeed lies at the root...result either of chance or of supernatural interference 1 The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest. For,... | |
 | 1861 - 520 ページ
...(which he regards as equivalent to fate). " We shall thus be led," he says (Vol. I. p. 6, Am. ed.), " to one vast question, which, indeed, lies at the root...result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? " Identifying freedom with chance, Mr. Buckle denies that there is such a thing, and maintains that... | |
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Are the actions of / men, and therefore of societies, governed, by, fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest. 
