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... mere manifestation of nervous 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 ...
... mere manifestation of nervous 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 ...
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... mere verbalism . Re- ligion is discarded along with Metaphysic , or at least religion in the old sense . This is the drift ... merely to confine life , but to constitute it . One might use the words of Bishop Butler with reference to the ...
... mere verbalism . Re- ligion is discarded along with Metaphysic , or at least religion in the old sense . This is the drift ... merely to confine life , but to constitute it . One might use the words of Bishop Butler with reference to the ...
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... merely to frighten her into compliance with his wishes . " At the end of six weeks , elation was suc- ceeded by despondency . He escaped during his wife's absence , and threw himself into the Seine . He was rescued from drowning by a ...
... merely to frighten her into compliance with his wishes . " At the end of six weeks , elation was suc- ceeded by despondency . He escaped during his wife's absence , and threw himself into the Seine . He was rescued from drowning by a ...
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... merely to regard him as the author of a new religion , would be to do injustice to his position as a 1 See Dr Bridges ' pamphlet on ' The Unity of Comte's Life and Doc- trine , ' in reply to Mr Mill , -an extremely interesting pamphlet ...
... merely to regard him as the author of a new religion , would be to do injustice to his position as a 1 See Dr Bridges ' pamphlet on ' The Unity of Comte's Life and Doc- trine , ' in reply to Mr Mill , -an extremely interesting pamphlet ...
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... mere soil of physics in any direction , analyse to the last the complication of external phenomena , and force as a distinct reality is nowhere found . The springs of nature are viewless , and the mere scalpel of induction can never lay ...
... mere soil of physics in any direction , analyse to the last the complication of external phenomena , and force as a distinct reality is nowhere found . The springs of nature are viewless , and the mere scalpel of induction can never lay ...
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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...