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Page 137
... rower to a boat ( PLATO , Phædon ) . According to the former of these two theories , the music must cease when the harp is broken : according to the latter , the rower may sur- vive , although his boat is destroyed . He may be ...
... rower to a boat ( PLATO , Phædon ) . According to the former of these two theories , the music must cease when the harp is broken : according to the latter , the rower may sur- vive , although his boat is destroyed . He may be ...
Page 138
... rower in the boat is aided by the currents beneath him , by the winds . around him , and by his own weight and the inertia of his vessel . Nevertheless , between the rower and the boat on the one hand , and the inert log that may be ...
... rower in the boat is aided by the currents beneath him , by the winds . around him , and by his own weight and the inertia of his vessel . Nevertheless , between the rower and the boat on the one hand , and the inert log that may be ...
Page 140
... rower float originates in the rower . I say nothing of that sort . The force of the river belongs to the river ; that of the oars , to the rower . The power which causes your skiff to move against the current , or which catches the wind ...
... rower float originates in the rower . I say nothing of that sort . The force of the river belongs to the river ; that of the oars , to the rower . The power which causes your skiff to move against the current , or which catches the wind ...
Page 196
... rower to a boat . But show me by physiological argument that the soul is an agent ex- ternal to the nervous mechanism , and you have proved that the relation of the soul to the body is that of a harper to a harp , or of a rower to a ...
... rower to a boat . But show me by physiological argument that the soul is an agent ex- ternal to the nervous mechanism , and you have proved that the relation of the soul to the body is that of a harper to a harp , or of a rower to a ...
Page 236
... rower to a boat , and not that of harmony to a harp . 16. The dissolution of the brain , therefore , no more implies the dissolution of the soul than that of a musical instrument does that of an invisible musi- cian who plays upon it ...
... rower to a boat , and not that of harmony to a harp . 16. The dissolution of the brain , therefore , no more implies the dissolution of the soul than that of a musical instrument does that of an invisible musi- cian who plays upon it ...
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