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" ... 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,... "
Materialism. Orig. publ. in The Journ. of psych. med. With an appendix - Page 25
by James Michell Winn - 1875
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Proceedings, Volume 29

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1875 - 480 pages
...together, and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is eeeable by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought and emotion are to arise ? Yon cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity...
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The Beginnings of Things, Or, Science Versus Theology: An Address by Prof ...

John Tyndall - Religion and science - 1874 - 80 pages
...sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind. But can...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to arise? You speak of the difficulty of mental presentation in my case ; is it less...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 5

Science - 1874 - 806 pages
...sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind. But can...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion, are to arise ? You speak of the difficulty of presentation in my case ; is it less in...
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Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast

John Tyndall - 1874 - 138 pages
...sensationless, observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind. But can...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to arise ? Are you likely to extract Homer out of the rattling of dice, or the Differential...
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Address Delivered Before the British Association Assembled at Belfast: With ...

John Tyndall - Crystallization - 1874 - 132 pages
...sensationless, observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind. But can...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to arise ? Are you likely to extract Homer out of the rattling of dice, or the Differential...
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Nature, Volume 10

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 562 pages
...running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is secaMe by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to arise? You speak of the difficulty cf mental presentation in my case ; is it less...
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Nature, Volume 10

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 562 pages
...running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeaMe by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imlgine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought,...
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The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 1

Insanity (Law) - 1875 - 374 pages
...carbon atoms, your dead phosphorous atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless...sensation, thought, or emotion are to arise ? I can * A Manual of Chemistry. Fifth Edition. Revised by H. Bence Jones and AW Hofman. t We cannot believe...
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Religion and Science: The Letters of "Alpha" on the Influence of Spirit Upon ...

Stephen Merrill Allen - Religion and science - 1875 - 200 pages
...sensationless, observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind. But can...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to arise ? Are you likely to extract Homer out of the rattling of dice, or the Differential...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issue 29

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1875 - 492 pages
...together, and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is aeedble by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any...these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought and emotion are to arise ? You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity...
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