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... to these questions . They speak of mind or spirit or consciousness - they cannot help doing so ; but they mean by such language merely a phenomenon - a phase of natural being never a spiritual entity or reality , distinct by itself ,
... to these questions . They speak of mind or spirit or consciousness - they cannot help doing so ; but they mean by such language merely a phenomenon - a phase of natural being never a spiritual entity or reality , distinct by itself ,
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... speak for themselves . But I may say here that I have wished to speak with all respect of both writers — the friendship of one of whom I may claim , as I willingly do homage with thousands of readers to his delightful literary qualities ...
... speak for themselves . But I may say here that I have wished to speak with all respect of both writers — the friendship of one of whom I may claim , as I willingly do homage with thousands of readers to his delightful literary qualities ...
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... speak of a Power they call God . But no arguments of language can identify " a religion of nature " with Christianity . The remaining essays are so essentially cognate that they fitly find a place in the same volume , although not so ...
... speak of a Power they call God . But no arguments of language can identify " a religion of nature " with Christianity . The remaining essays are so essentially cognate that they fitly find a place in the same volume , although not so ...
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... speak of her at all times and to all listeners . It was in the early days of this attachment that I first saw him , and in the course of our very first interview he spoke of her with an expansiveness which greatly interested me . When I ...
... speak of her at all times and to all listeners . It was in the early days of this attachment that I first saw him , and in the course of our very first interview he spoke of her with an expansiveness which greatly interested me . When I ...
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... speak of causation , and yet to empty the word of all meaning by making a cause nothing but an invariable antecedent . To the purely physical philosopher force can be nothing but a transition of conditions . Turn up the mere soil of ...
... speak of causation , and yet to empty the word of all meaning by making a cause nothing but an invariable antecedent . To the purely physical philosopher force can be nothing but a transition of conditions . Turn up the mere soil of ...
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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...