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... matter , started in the second essay , are argued out more fully in the third paper , dealing with Dr Tyndall's famous address to the British Association in 1874. There are traces of a polemical feeling in this essay which would be ...
... matter , started in the second essay , are argued out more fully in the third paper , dealing with Dr Tyndall's famous address to the British Association in 1874. There are traces of a polemical feeling in this essay which would be ...
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... matter , and all the deepest life of humanity roots itself in the Unseen . I had intended to close the papers by a somewhat elaborate analysis of Dr Newman's ' Grammar of As- sent , ' 1 with the view of showing how untenable , as it ...
... matter , and all the deepest life of humanity roots itself in the Unseen . I had intended to close the papers by a somewhat elaborate analysis of Dr Newman's ' Grammar of As- sent , ' 1 with the view of showing how untenable , as it ...
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... matter of fact , it made this transition under Saint - Simon's influence . It is unnecessary , as M. Littré says , 1 to substitute a fictitious for a real development ; and we know as matter of history , that during so many years of ...
... matter of fact , it made this transition under Saint - Simon's influence . It is unnecessary , as M. Littré says , 1 to substitute a fictitious for a real development ; and we know as matter of history , that during so many years of ...
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... matters it may have left it behind the actual state of advance of the several sciences . In the second and chief part of my work , I have found it even necessary , in consistency with my hygienic principle , the efficacy of which a long ...
... matters it may have left it behind the actual state of advance of the several sciences . In the second and chief part of my work , I have found it even necessary , in consistency with my hygienic principle , the efficacy of which a long ...
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... matter . From the one realm as well as the other he cast out all ideas of substance and cause , and left nothing but pheno- mena and their relations of association . Hume is therefore the principal precursor of Comte , as he him- self ...
... matter . From the one realm as well as the other he cast out all ideas of substance and cause , and left nothing but pheno- mena and their relations of association . Hume is therefore the principal precursor of Comte , as he him- self ...
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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...