LucretiusW. Blackwood and sons, 1878 - 172 pages |
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... falling and falling through an infinite space They fell thus in virtue of one of their inalienable properties , namely weight , which for ever bears them downwards . Though of different sizes , the velocity of their downward motion was ...
... falling and falling through an infinite space They fell thus in virtue of one of their inalienable properties , namely weight , which for ever bears them downwards . Though of different sizes , the velocity of their downward motion was ...
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... falling , would be by this time lying in a solid mass on the floor of space ; ~ ' and if matter were not infinite , that infinity of combi- nations could not have been produced , of which the existing order of things is a survival of ...
... falling , would be by this time lying in a solid mass on the floor of space ; ~ ' and if matter were not infinite , that infinity of combi- nations could not have been produced , of which the existing order of things is a survival of ...
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... falls on them , as in the case of the down on a dove's neck . He then goes on to analyse colour into a particular kind of blow given to the pupil of the eye , the nature of which varied with the shapes of the atoms that com- posed the ...
... falls on them , as in the case of the down on a dove's neck . He then goes on to analyse colour into a particular kind of blow given to the pupil of the eye , the nature of which varied with the shapes of the atoms that com- posed the ...
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... falling for ever down- wards , in much the same way as the atoms did in the beginning . His knowledge of a large part of this universe he confesses to be far from exact . Of the movements of the heavenly bodies , especially , he can ...
... falling for ever down- wards , in much the same way as the atoms did in the beginning . His knowledge of a large part of this universe he confesses to be far from exact . Of the movements of the heavenly bodies , especially , he can ...
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... falling on the earth , and the earth sustained from falling on the heavens below ; for the entire space between the two is pervaded by air in ceaseless motion , the particles of which are perpetually bounding and rebounding , strik- ing ...
... falling on the earth , and the earth sustained from falling on the heavens below ; for the entire space between the two is pervaded by air in ceaseless motion , the particles of which are perpetually bounding and rebounding , strik- ing ...
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amongst Anaxagoras animals ANTHONY TROLLOPE atoms beasts beginning birth body CATULLUS colour conceived conception consciousness creatures death DEMOSTHENES divine dreams earth EDITOR Empedocles empty space Epicurus ether everything existence explain eyes facts feel films fire force give gods gradually GREEK ANTHOLOGY grow heat heaven Heraclitus Herodotus HESIOD human images immortal infinite infinitely divisible instance kind laws light Lucretius goes Lucretius seems Lucretius's matter Memmius mind and soul mirror modern moon mortal motion move movement nature never observation once origin of species particles perpetually plain pleasure poem poet poetry produced race realise reason rebound religion round says Lucretius scientific system seeds seen sense shape stream strike substances surface sweet teach Thales thee theism theory thou thought THUCYDIDES TIBULLUS tion Tityos true universe various verse void W. H. MALLOCK wandering Whilst whole wild words
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Page 163 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem ; but the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.
Page 168 - What ! out of senseless Nothing to provoke A conscious Something to resent the yoke Of unpermitted Pleasure, under pain Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke ! What!
Page 168 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Page 163 - ... strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem. ' How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? ' The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would...
Page 163 - 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. They appear together, but we do not know why.
Page 169 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 168 - The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 169 - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!