| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1875 - 480 pages
...mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought and emotion are to arise ? Yon cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular process and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split... | |
| Science - 1875 - 884 pages
...address his essay criticises, precisely the same position is maintained. " You cannot," I there say, " satisfy the human understanding in its demand for...processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy... | |
| Science - 1874 - 806 pages
...— to arise. " Your difficulty, then, as I see you are ready to admit, is quite as great as mine. You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its...processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy... | |
| John Tyndall - Crystallization - 1874 - 132 pages
...— to arise. ' Your difficulty, then, as I see you are ready to admit, is quite as great as mine. You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its...processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 562 pages
...emotional — to arise. "Your difficulty, then, as I fee you are ready to admit, is quite as great as mine. You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its...processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy... | |
| John Tyndall - Crystallization - 1874 - 132 pages
...— to arise. ; Your difficulty, then, as I see you are ready to admit, is quite as great as mine. You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its...processes and the phenomena of con"sciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete D philosophy... | |
| John Tyndall - Religion and science - 1874 - 80 pages
...arise. Your difficulty, then, as I see you are ready to admit, is quite as great as mine. You caunot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for...processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which Materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy... | |
| James Michell Winn - Religion and science - 1875 - 88 pages
..."I will go further, and acknowledge that even a tree or flower might in this way be organized." f " Your atoms are individually without sensation, much...the following remarkable and inconsistent admission : " / hold the bishop's views to be unanswerable ! " Far better would it have been for the Professor's... | |
| Insanity (Law) - 1875 - 374 pages
...bishop would ever have acknowledged that inorganic matter could of itself make a living plant. visualise the waves of ether as they cross the eye and hit the...the following remarkable and inconsistent admission: "/ hold the bishop's views to be unanswerable!" Far better would it have been for the Professor's reputation... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1875 - 808 pages
...of science must dispel wherever it shines ? I have carefully noted your concessions such as these, "You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its...processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is the work on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy... | |
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