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... tion ; and , moreover , his mind is evidently biased by the fact that his studies have been chiefly directed to the elucidation of the phenomena of heat , light , radiation , and magnetism . It would have been more prudent if he had ...
... tion ; and , moreover , his mind is evidently biased by the fact that his studies have been chiefly directed to the elucidation of the phenomena of heat , light , radiation , and magnetism . It would have been more prudent if he had ...
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... tion , thought , or emotion are to arise ? I can visualize the waves of ether as they cross the eye and hit the retina - and pursue to the central organ the motion thus imparted at the periphery , and see in idea the molecules of the ...
... tion , thought , or emotion are to arise ? I can visualize the waves of ether as they cross the eye and hit the retina - and pursue to the central organ the motion thus imparted at the periphery , and see in idea the molecules of the ...
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... tion at Belfast , and if he had then confessed the belief which he has put into the mouth of Bishop Butler , and which has been held by some of our profoundest thinkers - that it is incon- ceivable that matter should think . After ...
... tion at Belfast , and if he had then confessed the belief which he has put into the mouth of Bishop Butler , and which has been held by some of our profoundest thinkers - that it is incon- ceivable that matter should think . After ...
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... tion , but has also limits to its own power , and it is not a healthy exercise for the mind to indulge over much in the pleasures of the imagi- nation . So far , however , as we can judge from observation of the past , we see but little ...
... tion , but has also limits to its own power , and it is not a healthy exercise for the mind to indulge over much in the pleasures of the imagi- nation . So far , however , as we can judge from observation of the past , we see but little ...
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... of a ganglion ; thought , cerebration ; life , molecular force ; crea- tion , evolution ; the Deity , a primordial germ ; crime , cerebral disease ; & c . The chief dogma of the new school is that mind 46 Materialism .
... of a ganglion ; thought , cerebration ; life , molecular force ; crea- tion , evolution ; the Deity , a primordial germ ; crime , cerebral disease ; & c . The chief dogma of the new school is that mind 46 Materialism .
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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.