There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that t...he physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You should try to understand every thing you see and hear; to act and judge for yourselves; to remember you each have a soul of yo...ur own to account for; M a mind of your own to improve. When you once get these ideas fixed, and learn to act upon them, no man or set of men, no laws, customs, or combinations of them can seriously oppress you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. Thi...s system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmatio...n, that it will rise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That three times five is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are di...scoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is any where existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths, demonstrated by Euclid, would for ever retain their certainty and evidence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the col...ours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, edu...cation, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ... beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ... and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated a part of the world, as to render the detection unavoidable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes u...s expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »