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... volume on ' Natural Religion , ' are in considerable part freshly written , and have not appeared before . They speak for themselves . But I may say here that I have wished to speak with all respect of both writers — the friendship of ...
... volume on ' Natural Religion , ' are in considerable part freshly written , and have not appeared before . They speak for themselves . But I may say here that I have wished to speak with all respect of both writers — the friendship of ...
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... volume , although not so intimately connected with the main line of thought . The study of Kant appeared little more than a year ago in the Edinburgh Review ' ; and I have to express my special acknowledgments to Messrs Long- man for ...
... volume , although not so intimately connected with the main line of thought . The study of Kant appeared little more than a year ago in the Edinburgh Review ' ; and I have to express my special acknowledgments to Messrs Long- man for ...
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... volumes , begin- ning with ' Problems of Mind , ' which crowned the varied labours of Mr Lewes's life . Elaborate and full of thought as these volumes are , I do not think that they call for any qualification of the estimate pro ...
... volumes , begin- ning with ' Problems of Mind , ' which crowned the varied labours of Mr Lewes's life . Elaborate and full of thought as these volumes are , I do not think that they call for any qualification of the estimate pro ...
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... volumes . He has given elaborate prolegomena , rewritten many chapters -those on Plato and Aristotle , also those on Bacon , Descartes , Spinoza , and others ; he has inserted a 66 Transition Period " between Ancient and Modern ...
... volumes . He has given elaborate prolegomena , rewritten many chapters -those on Plato and Aristotle , also those on Bacon , Descartes , Spinoza , and others ; he has inserted a 66 Transition Period " between Ancient and Modern ...
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... volumes than in a series of rapid sketches . We are bound also to say , with all respect for Mr Lewes's talents , that his present volumes retain many of his old faults of treatment . Softened and toned down , they are yet there the ...
... volumes than in a series of rapid sketches . We are bound also to say , with all respect for Mr Lewes's talents , that his present volumes retain many of his old faults of treatment . Softened and toned down , they are yet there 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...