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... organic adjustments , the finite minds , & c . , to be found in these worlds . The conviction which a .man feels when looking at St Paul's that it must have had an architect of wonderful genius , is not disturbed or lessened by his ...
... organic adjustments , the finite minds , & c . , to be found in these worlds . The conviction which a .man feels when looking at St Paul's that it must have had an architect of wonderful genius , is not disturbed or lessened by his ...
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... organic nature passed through its manifold stages ; what living creatures issued from the earth ; how speech was invented ; how society originated and governments were insti- tuted ; how civilisation commenced ; and in what ways ...
... organic nature passed through its manifold stages ; what living creatures issued from the earth ; how speech was invented ; how society originated and governments were insti- tuted ; how civilisation commenced ; and in what ways ...
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... - sensuous pleasure - as the chief end of life . He excused vices on the ground that they are organic diseases , and that man cannot control himself . He jeers at modesty and chastity , at love and friendship . Materialism in France . 85.
... - sensuous pleasure - as the chief end of life . He excused vices on the ground that they are organic diseases , and that man cannot control himself . He jeers at modesty and chastity , at love and friendship . Materialism in France . 85.
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... organic world has favoured material- ism still more by its influence on the character of the scientific spirit . Regions have now been entered , where to proceed rigidly , according to the rules either of deduction or induction , is as ...
... organic world has favoured material- ism still more by its influence on the character of the scientific spirit . Regions have now been entered , where to proceed rigidly , according to the rules either of deduction or induction , is as ...
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... organic processes are essentially notional or rational . But this is a hypothesis which physical science will not allow us to entertain . The attempt to interpret me- chanical , chemical , and organic facts in connection with it has ...
... organic processes are essentially notional or rational . But this is a hypothesis which physical science will not allow us to entertain . The attempt to interpret me- chanical , chemical , and organic facts in connection with it has ...
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Page 160 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 384 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 172 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?