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... mental science . Had it not been for the bright glitter of the Professor's eloquence , it is questionable whether his vehe- ment advocacy of Materialism would have attracted so much attention . His remarks are not original , and he must ...
... mental science . Had it not been for the bright glitter of the Professor's eloquence , it is questionable whether his vehe- ment advocacy of Materialism would have attracted so much attention . His remarks are not original , and he must ...
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... mental presentation , vital phenomena to purely mechanical principles . " In the same admiring spirit he mentions Gassendi , who was both a divine and a natural philosopher , a strong supporter of the molecular hypothesis , and one who ...
... mental presentation , vital phenomena to purely mechanical principles . " In the same admiring spirit he mentions Gassendi , who was both a divine and a natural philosopher , a strong supporter of the molecular hypothesis , and one who ...
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... mental picture of " living powers , " " percipients or perceiving powers " of " ourselves , " cannot be formed " apart from the organisms through which it is supposed to act " ; that consciousness is not a necessary element of the true ...
... mental picture of " living powers , " " percipients or perceiving powers " of " ourselves , " cannot be formed " apart from the organisms through which it is supposed to act " ; that consciousness is not a necessary element of the true ...
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... mental and nerve force , of vital and phy- sical force , & c . If we apply the test of Grove's theory to the consideration of vital phenomena , we shall not find that a single instance has been recorded in which vital and physical force ...
... mental and nerve force , of vital and phy- sical force , & c . If we apply the test of Grove's theory to the consideration of vital phenomena , we shall not find that a single instance has been recorded in which vital and physical force ...
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... mental manifestations are only emanations from particular portions of the brain , when they have not yet been able to determine the centres of motion and sensation- D questions which lie , as it were , on the Materialism . 49.
... mental manifestations are only emanations from particular portions of the brain , when they have not yet been able to determine the centres of motion and sensation- D questions which lie , as it were , on the Materialism . 49.
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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.