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... materials which appeared to me necessary to the great elaboration whose fundamental inspirations I felt within me , I have now during twenty years at least ( he is writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene ...
... materials which appeared to me necessary to the great elaboration whose fundamental inspirations I felt within me , I have now during twenty years at least ( he is writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene ...
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... material . Consequently they exclude , once for all , from political supremacy , all the different servants of God- Catholic , Protestant , or Deist - as being at once behind- hand and a cause of disturbance . " Such was the remark ...
... material . Consequently they exclude , once for all , from political supremacy , all the different servants of God- Catholic , Protestant , or Deist - as being at once behind- hand and a cause of disturbance . " Such was the remark ...
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... material succession . doubtedly the more universal recognition of a reign of order everywhere has been greatly due to the Comtean type of thought . So far the Positivist method has vindicated itself thoroughly to the higher intelligence ...
... material succession . doubtedly the more universal recognition of a reign of order everywhere has been greatly due to the Comtean type of thought . So far the Positivist method has vindicated itself thoroughly to the higher intelligence ...
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... material- istic philosophy . The one may be tagged on to the other by pure conjecture , according to " the analogies which are called marks of design , and the general traditions of the human race , " which seems to be Mr Mill's plan ...
... material- istic philosophy . The one may be tagged on to the other by pure conjecture , according to " the analogies which are called marks of design , and the general traditions of the human race , " which seems to be Mr Mill's plan ...
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... carries us , the more do we lose hold of matter and mere physical results , and pass into the realm of im- 1 Grove , p . 16 . material and invisible realities . " The old speculations of AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 63.
... carries us , the more do we lose hold of matter and mere physical results , and pass into the realm of im- 1 Grove , p . 16 . material and invisible realities . " The old speculations of AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . 63.
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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...