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... looks upon as the crowning - point of all philosophy and knowledge , Mr. Darwin's hypo- thesis of evolution , which he seems to regard as the greatest discovery ever made by man , for- getting that it is not an immutable law , but only ...
... looks upon as the crowning - point of all philosophy and knowledge , Mr. Darwin's hypo- thesis of evolution , which he seems to regard as the greatest discovery ever made by man , for- getting that it is not an immutable law , but only ...
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... look on him with a sort of reverence , as if he were the impersonation of pure reason . Not satisfied , however , with accord- ing him this high honour , he is so strongly influenced by his own enthusiasm , that he can- not help ...
... look on him with a sort of reverence , as if he were the impersonation of pure reason . Not satisfied , however , with accord- ing him this high honour , he is so strongly influenced by his own enthusiasm , that he can- not help ...
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James Michell Winn. sentiment , which Dr. Tyndall looks upon as a " form of force " which is dangerous if not limited to its proper sphere of emotion ! The strongest contrast , however , to the materialistic opinions so conspicuously ...
James Michell Winn. sentiment , which Dr. Tyndall looks upon as a " form of force " which is dangerous if not limited to its proper sphere of emotion ! The strongest contrast , however , to the materialistic opinions so conspicuously ...
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... looks upon all those who do not agree with the views of the psychological physiologists as wilfully deaf , or the victims of a domineering prejudice . He reiterates the opinion of the school - laying it down as if it were a geometrical ...
... looks upon all those who do not agree with the views of the psychological physiologists as wilfully deaf , or the victims of a domineering prejudice . He reiterates the opinion of the school - laying it down as if it were a geometrical ...
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... look on as the clearest evidence of the truth of their hypothesis , that mental affections are only diseases of the body . They speak of this as a modern discovery , whereas it was mentioned by Gassendi more than two hundred years ago ...
... look on as the clearest evidence of the truth of their hypothesis , that mental affections are only diseases of the body . They speak of this as a modern discovery , whereas it was mentioned by Gassendi more than two hundred years ago ...
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Page 9 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Page 25 - You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy of life.
Page 39 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Page 42 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Page 25 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seea-ble by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Page 65 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.