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I was glad to learn that the mind of man (himself the product of natural causes)
was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause
and effect and that these laws were the same as those that governed the
movements ...
I was glad to learn that the mind of man (himself the product of natural causes)
was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause
and effect and that these laws were the same as those that governed the
movements ...
Page 142
cause people do not naturally talk to themselves out loud; he may not telescope
events, by which he was able to accelerate his action, but must cause them to
occur as deliberately as in real life; he must eschew accident and chance, for we
...
cause people do not naturally talk to themselves out loud; he may not telescope
events, by which he was able to accelerate his action, but must cause them to
occur as deliberately as in real life; he must eschew accident and chance, for we
...
Page 282
Hume long ago showed that there was no intrinsic connection between cause
and effect which could be perceived by the mind; and of late the Principle of
Indeterminacy, by bringing to view certain events to which apparently no causes
can be ...
Hume long ago showed that there was no intrinsic connection between cause
and effect which could be perceived by the mind; and of late the Principle of
Indeterminacy, by bringing to view certain events to which apparently no causes
can be ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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