 | Methodist Church - 1880 - 820 pages
...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain substance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is...proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of any change in the moFOURTH SBBIBS, VOL. XXXII.— 29 tion of the organism. If these positions are well... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...determinism is shut up— as, indeed, Huxley has the courage to avow — "It seems to me," he says, " that in men, as in brutes, there is no proof that...change in the motion of the matter of the organism . . . the feeling we call volition is not the cause of the voluntary act, but the symbol of that state... | |
 | Biology - 1908 - 950 pages
...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain substance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is...change in the motion of the matter of the organism. If these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols in... | |
 | Science - 1885 - 900 pages
...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain-substance. It seems to me that, in men as in brutes, there is...change in the motion of the matter of the organism. If these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols in... | |
 | 1875 - 844 pages
...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain-substance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is...any state of consciousness is the cause of change ift the motion of the matter of the organism. If these positions are well based, it follows that our... | |
 | Charles Elam - Evolution - 1876 - 198 pages
...we find ourselves endowed with free will and power 'to do as we like.' And finally it appears that ' there is no proof that any state of consciousness...change in the motion of the matter of the organism,' and that ' the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...find ourselves endowed with free will and power '• to do as we like." And finally it appears that " there is no proof that any state of consciousness...change in the motion of the matter of the organism," and that " the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - Causation - 1877 - 130 pages
...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain substance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is...change in the motion of the matter of the organism. If these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols in... | |
 | Church and social problems - 1877 - 670 pages
...possibility of misapprehension, that we have no such thing as volition. Professor Huxley states that " there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the matter of the organism," and that " the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act,... | |
 | Church congress - 1877 - 642 pages
...possibility of misapprehension, that we have no such thing as volition. Professor Huxley states that "there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the matter of the organism," and that " the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act,... | |
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It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the motion of the matter of the organism. 
