id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18202 Withington, William The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society .txt text/plain 16009 690 62 Aim at managing Self-Love, directed towards Present Goods, vulgarly problem of applying know truth to the present, reconciling self-love them to follow a train of thought, something like this: The life of a Man here presents a singular exception to the general rule of earth's self-love, as the ruling motive of human conduct. juster apprehensions of present good--to inform and refine self-love; individual self-love is the ruling motive. for the present life--still leaving out man's hold on a future, and his ends--covet, as life's best goods? law, given by Him, who best knows what is good for man, in whatever life--to form men of progressive thoughts? As the past age estimated life's supreme good, the enjoyment be more fully recognized, as self-love is educated--as men better become wise for the life that is to come; that self-love never becomes proportion as men rightly estimate life, and truly love themselves, ./cache/18202.txt ./txt/18202.txt