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... Dr Tyndall , and others , are largely independent , and would possibly have been what they are if the " Posi- tive Philosophy " had never appeared . They are in- spired by a motif of their own , and I have no wish . to claim for these ...
... Dr Tyndall , and others , are largely independent , and would possibly have been what they are if the " Posi- tive Philosophy " had never appeared . They are in- spired by a motif of their own , and I have no wish . to claim for these ...
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... Dr Tyndall's famous address to the British Association in 1874. There are traces of a polemical feeling in this essay which would be better away ; but it is im- possible to eliminate them fully without breaking up the argument , and ...
... Dr Tyndall's famous address to the British Association in 1874. There are traces of a polemical feeling in this essay which would be better away ; but it is im- possible to eliminate them fully without breaking up the argument , and ...
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... Tyndall , addressing the world from the throne of modern science - which the chair of the British Association ought ... Dr Tyndall's position as a man of science . The real or permanent value of his scientific labours are beyond our ...
... Tyndall , addressing the world from the throne of modern science - which the chair of the British Association ought ... Dr Tyndall's position as a man of science . The real or permanent value of his scientific labours are beyond our ...
Page 127
... Dr Tyndall is not lacking in boldness of speculation . Nor can any of the Modern School be said to shrink from a self - confident ambition . If they do not scale the barriers which have hitherto confined human knowledge , it will not be ...
... Dr Tyndall is not lacking in boldness of speculation . Nor can any of the Modern School be said to shrink from a self - confident ambition . If they do not scale the barriers which have hitherto confined human knowledge , it will not be ...
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... Dr Tyndall , in his better moments , can hardly be gratified by the enthus- iasm of such disciples ; and yet it may be said that they are the only class to whom such an address as his would be perfectly welcome . His more thought- ful ...
... Dr Tyndall , in his better moments , can hardly be gratified by the enthus- iasm of such disciples ; and yet it may be said that they are the only class to whom such an address as his would be perfectly welcome . His more thought- ful ...
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Agnosticism argument Arnold Auguste Comte basis betwixt Blackwood's Magazine Caro character Christian Comte Comte's conception consciousness criticism Crown 8vo Democritus Divine doctrine dogma Dr Tyndall Edinburgh essay ethical existence experience external facts Fcap feeling Ferrier force German Gravenhurst Greek Philosophy Hartmann higher History human Hume idea ideal Illustrations intellectual intelligence Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Königsberg Kritik language Lectures less LL.D logical materialistic matter meaning ment merely metaphysical mind modern moral nature never object perception Pessimism phenomena philosophy physical Positive Positivism Positivist Post 8vo principle privat-docent Professor question reality reason recognise religion religious righteousness says Schopenhauer scientific Scotland Scottish Second Edition sense Sir William Hamilton speculation sphere spiritual supposed Theism theology theory things thinker Thorndale thought tion Translated true truth University University of Edinburgh vols volume whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD words writings
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Page 303 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 158 - 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 of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 295 - Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being...