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... relations to external relations , " has won for him that title ? Can anything be more indefinite than such a definition ? Another theory of life is , that the vital struc- tures are formed by a sort of crystallisation . A 36 Materialism .
... relations to external relations , " has won for him that title ? Can anything be more indefinite than such a definition ? Another theory of life is , that the vital struc- tures are formed by a sort of crystallisation . A 36 Materialism .
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... relations experienced by all organisms will have answering internal relations , and that we have such relations in those of space and time ; and being the constant elements of thought , they become the automatic elements of thought ...
... relations experienced by all organisms will have answering internal relations , and that we have such relations in those of space and time ; and being the constant elements of thought , they become the automatic elements of thought ...
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... relations had escaped some hereditary taint . Strongly im- pressed with this fact , I published six years since a treatise " On the Nature and Treatment of Hereditary Disease , " in which I offered a theory that has never been confuted ...
... relations had escaped some hereditary taint . Strongly im- pressed with this fact , I published six years since a treatise " On the Nature and Treatment of Hereditary Disease , " in which I offered a theory that has never been confuted ...
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... relations are conspiring to ruin them ; and learnt that the " confiding ecstasy " which so charmed him was probably the delirious exaltation of general paralysis . Had he ob- served this , and much more that it is needless to detail ...
... relations are conspiring to ruin them ; and learnt that the " confiding ecstasy " which so charmed him was probably the delirious exaltation of general paralysis . Had he ob- served this , and much more that it is needless to detail ...
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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.