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" 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... "
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
...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...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 8

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...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 5

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...
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Address Delivered Before the British Association Assembled at Belfast: With ...

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...
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Nature, Volume 10

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...
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Address Delivered Before the British Association Assembled at Belfast: With ...

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...
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The Beginnings of Things, Or, Science Versus Theology: An Address by Prof ...

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...
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Materialism

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...
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The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 1

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...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review, Volume 4

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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