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absolute actinic affinity all-conditioned animal antecedents apprehension arises atoms belonging betwixt body called causal elements cause character characteristic chemical affinity chyle cognition combination conceive conclusion consciousness consequently constitutes contiguity creation Deity dependent distinction ditions Divine doctrine dogma economy effect emotion epidermis essential Ether exercise existence experience external world fact force foreordination foundation fundamental ground harmony heat Hence ideas impressions Infinite ingredients inherent Intellect intelligence Kant knowledge law of identity luminosity manifested material matter mental mind molecules moral nature necessarily necessity nexion object operation Pantheism particles particular perception pheno phenomena phenomenon philosophy Philosophy of Perception physical positive possible precise principle properly question realised reason regarded relation relationship representation respect rience self-same sensation sense sensorium simply Sir William Sir William Hamilton soul space spirit stand substance suppose term therein thing thought tion tricity Uncon unconditioned whereby
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Page 361 - But neither can this be said ; for though we give the materialists their external bodies, they by their own confession are never the nearer knowing how our ideas are produced: since they own themselves unable to comprehend in what manner body can act upon spirit, or how it is possible it should imprint any idea in the mind.
Page 321 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 296 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! Make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Page lxi - Tis plain that in the course of our thinking and in the constant revolution of our ideas our imagination runs easily from one idea to any other that resembles it, and that this quality alone is to the fancy a sufficient bond and association. 'Tis likewise evident that as the senses, in changing their objects, are necessitated to change them regularly and take them as they lie contiguous to each other, the imagination must by long custom acquire the same method of thinking and run along the parts...
Page 49 - How, therefore, I repeat, moral liberty is possible in man or God, we are utterly unable speculatively to understand. But practically, the fact, that we are free, is given to us in the consciousness of an uncompromising law of duty, in the consciousness of our moral accountability...
Page 297 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal* vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 29 - We cannot know, we cannot think a thing, except under the attribute of existence; we cannot know or think a thing to exist, except as in time; and we cannot know or think a thing to exist in time, and think it absolutely to commence. Now this at once imposes on us the judgment of causality.
Page 180 - As to past Experience, it can be allowed to give direct and certain information of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time, which fell under its cognizance...
Page 4 - In our opinion the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited, and the conditionally limited. The unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, cannot positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived, only by a thinking away from, or abstraction of, those very conditions under which thought itself is realized; consequently the notion of the Unconditioned is only negative,—negative of the conceivable itself.
Page lxii - Here is a kind of attraction which in the mental world will be found to have as extraordinary effects as in the natural, and to show itself in as many and as various forms.