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... whole temporary Review ' ; that on " Modern Scientific Materialism " in Black- wood's Magazine . ' But the others , with the exception of the two mostly written afresh , were published in the Edinburgh Review . ' 1 See Edinburgh Review ...
... whole temporary Review ' ; that on " Modern Scientific Materialism " in Black- wood's Magazine . ' But the others , with the exception of the two mostly written afresh , were published in the Edinburgh Review . ' 1 See Edinburgh Review ...
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... whole , while he has certainly impaired the freshness of its original outline and the vivacity of its biographic movement . It has ceased to be a book for the general reader and the young student of philosophy ; it has not become a book ...
... whole , while he has certainly impaired the freshness of its original outline and the vivacity of its biographic movement . It has ceased to be a book for the general reader and the young student of philosophy ; it has not become a book ...
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... whole mode of thought , or who has more frequently recurred to its characteristic ideas , and explained them with more clearness , comprehension , and force . It has been Mr Lewes's mission to develop and spread these ideas in ...
... whole mode of thought , or who has more frequently recurred to its characteristic ideas , and explained them with more clearness , comprehension , and force . It has been Mr Lewes's mission to develop and spread these ideas in ...
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... whole , harder to read , and whose ideas suffer less from sifting and explanation at the hands of others . Possessed of great force of intellect , with a marvellous genius for scientific method , and a powerful faculty of co ...
... whole , harder to read , and whose ideas suffer less from sifting and explanation at the hands of others . Possessed of great force of intellect , with a marvellous genius for scientific method , and a powerful faculty of co ...
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... whole scholastic career . He readily submitted to moral or intellec- tual superiority , but he carried to a daring pitch his defiance of mere rule . He was ready for the École Polytechnique a year before the regulations permitted his ...
... whole scholastic career . He readily submitted to moral or intellec- tual superiority , but he carried to a daring pitch his defiance of mere rule . He was ready for the École Polytechnique a year before the regulations permitted his ...
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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...