LucretiusW. Blackwood and sons, 1878 - 172 pages |
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... movement . It comes to us like a " horn of elf - land faintly blowing , " and we know that it was meant for other ears than ours . But the case of Lucretius is in some ways a singular one ; and this very remoteness may give him , in ...
... movement . It comes to us like a " horn of elf - land faintly blowing , " and we know that it was meant for other ears than ours . But the case of Lucretius is in some ways a singular one ; and this very remoteness may give him , in ...
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... movements as those of a blind and dead necessity . From the conflict of these contraries , he teaches , there arose an eternal motion , out of which the present universe gradually shaped itself , including men , and gods also , these ...
... movements as those of a blind and dead necessity . From the conflict of these contraries , he teaches , there arose an eternal motion , out of which the present universe gradually shaped itself , including men , and gods also , these ...
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... movement , postulates two quasi personal forces , Strife and Love . But having started with these , he at once ceases to be personal ; and analys- ing all substances , not into water , air , or fire , or a vague and illimitable matter ...
... movement , postulates two quasi personal forces , Strife and Love . But having started with these , he at once ceases to be personal ; and analys- ing all substances , not into water , air , or fire , or a vague and illimitable matter ...
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... movement of the particles , and he then leaves these to do all the rest for themselves . That mechanical movement began as a revolution of the particles at a single point . Then gradually ever increasing masses were drawn into this ...
... movement of the particles , and he then leaves these to do all the rest for themselves . That mechanical movement began as a revolution of the particles at a single point . Then gradually ever increasing masses were drawn into this ...
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... movements , in a great mea- sure , a certain blind and essentially impersonal neces- sity . Next they came to realise that they were really entertaining the idea of two principles , and consciously and explicitly they learnt to ...
... movements , in a great mea- sure , a certain blind and essentially impersonal neces- sity . Next they came to realise that they were really entertaining the idea of two principles , and consciously and explicitly they learnt to ...
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amongst Anaxagoras animals ANTHONY TROLLOPE atoms beasts beginning birth body colour conceived conception consciousness 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 LORD NEAVES 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!