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... force - a life behind all other life , and not merely the highest and most complex phase of natural life ? All the naturalistic systems of thought so prevalent at the present time assume a negative answer to these questions . They speak ...
... force - a life behind all other life , and not merely the highest and most complex phase of natural life ? All the naturalistic systems of thought so prevalent at the present time assume a negative answer to these questions . They speak ...
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... force . It has been Mr Lewes's mission to develop and spread these ideas in opposition to the old modes of thought , as the destined means of regenerating human knowledge and society . His sense , and perhaps in some degree his ...
... force . It has been Mr Lewes's mission to develop and spread these ideas in opposition to the old modes of thought , as the destined means of regenerating human knowledge and society . His sense , and perhaps in some degree his ...
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... force of intellect , with a marvellous genius for scientific method , and a powerful faculty of co - ordinating knowledge from his own point of view ; endowed , moreover , with a lumi- nous insight into the true meaning of scientific ...
... force of intellect , with a marvellous genius for scientific method , and a powerful faculty of co - ordinating knowledge from his own point of view ; endowed , moreover , with a lumi- nous insight into the true meaning of scientific ...
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... force with which they have impressed many minds . Furthermore , it is impossible , without some definite review of his phil- osophy , to understand Comte's real merit , and the ser- vices which he has rendered to the cause of science ...
... force with which they have impressed many minds . Furthermore , it is impossible , without some definite review of his phil- osophy , to understand Comte's real merit , and the ser- vices which he has rendered to the cause of science ...
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... forces " which have been associated with these phenomena , and under which even men of science are still prone to conceive them . Gravity is nothing in itself . It is an invariable numerical relation betwixt the celestial masses and the ...
... forces " which have been associated with these phenomena , and under which even men of science are still prone to conceive them . Gravity is nothing in itself . It is an invariable numerical relation betwixt the celestial masses and the ...
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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...