Sidgwick : Henry (1838-1900), known for his ethical theory based on Utilitarianism. He was also a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.
... the Britisher's boast is well or ill-founded, but rightly or wrongly this sentiment has taken possession of him and he is invincible under its influence. For we find the same explanation in Mill. Sidgwick also in his Elements of Politics harps on the same strain. "Besides the material advantages," he says, "there are legitimate sentimental satisfactions derived from justifiable conquest which must... tendency to catch its tastes and imitate its customs which its prolonged rule, specially if, on the whole, beneficent, is likely to cause in a continually increasing degree." Thus, according to Sidgwick, physical expansion proceeds from a desire for spiritual expansion and history also supports the assertion. But why should not India then be the first power in the world? Who else has the undisputed ...
... minds in their mutual relations. The consequence has been that, with the eye fixed only on the metaphysical problem, they have set up a metaphysical abstraction in the place of God. The late Prof. H Sidgwick, in a paper on Theism, has made the just remark, that there is a difference between the God reached by metaphysics and the God required by the Christian religion. And I think we may generalise and ...
... mehow kind of "unity" that involved the sacrifice of honest opinion, principle and conscientious action. The pseudo-unity-mongers seemed to say: * The issue of 29 November asked: "Has not Sidgwick established it beyond any shadow of doubt that diversity of race, language and religion does not stand in the way of forming a nation?" Page 255 "Be your views what they may, suppress ...
... worked-out wit which is still poetry by being charged with a fine feeling. But I may here illustrate what piquancy should avoid being. I shall offer an example in which it runs riot, almost goes mad. Sidgwick has imagined what Swinburne with his complicated and musically repetitive style would have made of Wordsworth's straightforward paradox. Swinburne would have excitedly pro-duced a sort of rapturously ...
... Divine, p. 843. 33. Ibid., pp. 3-4. 34. Ibid., p. 847. Page 23 circle', is in their bones. To both savage and civilized are indeed applicable the lines which Henry Sidgwick composed in his sleep: "We think so because all other people think so: Or because - or because - after all, we do think so: Or because we were told so and think we must think so: Or because ...
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