Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a tiny speck in... The Plain Truth about God 101 - Page 24by Allan W. Janssen - 2006 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sigmund Freud - 1920 - 432 pages
...hands of science two great outrages against its naive self-love. The first was when humanity discovered that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system hardly conceivable in its magnitude. This is associated in our minds with... | |
| Gerald James Holton - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 372 pages
...world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable." The next was Darwin's, who "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world." And the third shock, Freud explained, came from his own work, which showed each one of us that "he... | |
| Scott Bukatman - Computers - 1993 - 428 pages
...earth from its central position in the universe; Darwin's theories, which "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world"; and Freud's own contribution, which demonstrated that the subject "is not even master in his own house,"... | |
| S. N. Balagangadhara - Religion - 1994 - 586 pages
...universe: "Humanity has in course of time had to endure from the hand of two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that...relegated him to a descent from the animal world." (In one of history's least modest pronouncements, Freud then stated that his own work had toppled the... | |
| Roy Porter - History - 1997 - 304 pages
...doctrines taught something veiy similar. The second was when biological research robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world, implying an ineradicable animal nature in him: this transvaluation has been accomplished in our own... | |
| Roy Porter - History - 1997 - 304 pages
...Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon the naive self,love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the centre of the universe, hut only a tiny speck in a world,system of a magnimde hardly conceivahle: this... | |
| Hubert J. Richards - Religion - 2000 - 134 pages
...Humanity has, in the course of time, had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the centre of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable (Galileo)...... | |
| Theodore Roszak - Nature - 2001 - 388 pages
...conceivable." Three centuries later came the Darwinian revolution in biology, which "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world, implying an ineradicable animal nature in him." Bad enough, but worse was yet to come: "Mankind's craving... | |
| Michael Shermer - Science - 2001 - 368 pages
...magnitude hardly conceivable." The biological shock occurred when Darwin "robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world."24 The psychological shock, created by Freud's own psychoanalysis, was seen by the founder of... | |
| Jacklyn Cock, Alison R. Bernstein - History - 2002 - 286 pages
..."Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that...created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world."32 This human concern with distinguishing ourselves from other animals on the grounds that we... | |
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