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... sets of properties , or of a physical side and a spiritual side , making up a double - faced unity . ( BAIN , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER , Mind and Body , 1873 , pp . 130 , 140 , 191 , 196. ) This is precisely the materialism of Professor Bain ...
... sets of properties , or of a physical side and a spiritual side , making up a double - faced unity . ( BAIN , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER , Mind and Body , 1873 , pp . 130 , 140 , 191 , 196. ) This is precisely the materialism of Professor Bain ...
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... set limits to the possible play of molecules in a cooling planet ? Matter is essentially mystical and tran- scendental " ( TYNDALL , Fragments of Science , Eng . ed . , p . 163 ) . 2. " Supposing that , in youth , we had been ...
... set limits to the possible play of molecules in a cooling planet ? Matter is essentially mystical and tran- scendental " ( TYNDALL , Fragments of Science , Eng . ed . , p . 163 ) . 2. " Supposing that , in youth , we had been ...
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... set in motion without other resistance than itself can supply , to keep on moving forever ; or , if left at rest without other force than its own , to remain at rest forever . Materialism , hy- lozoism , and Tyndall's definition of ...
... set in motion without other resistance than itself can supply , to keep on moving forever ; or , if left at rest without other force than its own , to remain at rest forever . Materialism , hy- lozoism , and Tyndall's definition of ...
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... sets of qualities , each the reverse of the other , and absolutely inca- pable of co - existence in the same substance . 2. We know that the two sets of qualities exist . 3. We know , therefore , that there are two sub- stances in which ...
... sets of qualities , each the reverse of the other , and absolutely inca- pable of co - existence in the same substance . 2. We know that the two sets of qualities exist . 3. We know , therefore , that there are two sub- stances in which ...
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... set at defiance . The action of mate- rial forces appears to be reversed . Häckel , over and over , admits that we cannot produce life , and that we know of nothing but bioplasm that ever has produced it ; but somewhere and somehow in ...
... set at defiance . The action of mate- rial forces appears to be reversed . Häckel , over and over , admits that we cannot produce life , and that we know of nothing but bioplasm that ever has produced it ; but somewhere and somehow in ...
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Page 288 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 22 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 129 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 315 - And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And, last of all, thy greedy self consumed, Then long eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss ; And joy shall overtake us as a flood...
Page 285 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 272 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
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Page 21 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 35 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.