LucretiusW. Blackwood and sons, 1878 - 172 pages |
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... once religion , with its blighting influence , is exterminated , there are prospects of " a better , and , above all , a happier state of existence , " for the human race . Indeed , so like is much of his general language to what we ...
... once religion , with its blighting influence , is exterminated , there are prospects of " a better , and , above all , a happier state of existence , " for the human race . Indeed , so like is much of his general language to what we ...
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... once was when a boy's . In the days of Lucretius , materialism and theism were each , as it were , in their boyhood ; and , armed with simple weapons , they fought a boyish battle . If we look back a little on what they then were , it ...
... once was when a boy's . In the days of Lucretius , materialism and theism were each , as it were , in their boyhood ; and , armed with simple weapons , they fought a boyish battle . If we look back a little on what they then were , it ...
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... once free of these superstitions , the complexion of our whole life would change , and human society become a nobler thing . In such a composition there could not fail to be passages of powerful and lofty poetry ; and touches of a ...
... once free of these superstitions , the complexion of our whole life would change , and human society become a nobler thing . In such a composition there could not fail to be passages of powerful and lofty poetry ; and touches of a ...
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... in history , and try to realise as best we may the nature of the scientific systems that had gone before it , and that it at once grew out of and superseded . CHAPTER II . THE DAWN OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE . " INTRODUCTORY . 11.
... in history , and try to realise as best we may the nature of the scientific systems that had gone before it , and that it at once grew out of and superseded . CHAPTER II . THE DAWN OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE . " INTRODUCTORY . 11.
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... once accounted for , so far as they realised that any account was required of them , by an anthropomorphic polytheism ; or in other words , as Mr Matthew Arnold might express it , all that was done in the world , that was not done by ...
... once accounted for , so far as they realised that any account was required of them , by an anthropomorphic polytheism ; or in other words , as Mr Matthew Arnold might express it , all that was done in the world , that was not done by ...
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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!