In the metaphysical stage, which is only a modification of the former, but which is important as a transitional stage, the supernatural agents give place to abstract forces, personified abstractions supposed to inhere in the various substances, and capable... The British Journal of Homoeopathy - Page 5801862Full view - About this book
| 1843 - 452 pages
...modification Of the former, but which is important as a transitional stage, the supernatural agents give place to abstract forces (personified abstractions), supposed...highest condition of this stage is when all these various forces are brought under one general force, as Nature. " In the positive stage, the mind, convinced... | |
| English periodicals - 1843 - 652 pages
...modification of the former, but which is important as a transitional stage, the supernatural agents give place to abstract forces (personified abstractions), supposed...substances, and capable themselves of engendering phaenomena. The highest condition of this stage is when all these various forces are brought under... | |
| George Henry Lewes - Positivism - 1853 - 370 pages
...supposed to inhere in various substances, and capable of engendering phenomena. In the Positive phase the mind, convinced of the futility of all inquiry into causes and essences, restricts itself to the . observation and classification of phenomena, and to the discovery of the... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1863 - 484 pages
...modification of the former, but which is important as a transitional stage, the supernatural agents give place to abstract forces (personified abstractions) supposed...condition of this stage is when all t,hese forces are hrought under one general force named Nature. In the Positive stage, the mind, convinced of the futility... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Philosophy, English - 1865 - 432 pages
...modification of the former, but which is important as a transitional stage, the supernatural agents give place to abstract forces (personified abstractions), supposed...positive stage the mind, convinced of the futility of all enquiry into causes and essences, applies itself to the observation and classification of laws which... | |
| Edward Garbett - 1867 - 428 pages
...modification of the former, but which is important as a transitional stage, the supernatural agents give place to abstract forces, personified abstractions supposed...positive stage the mind, convinced of the futility of all enquiry into causes and essences, applies itself to the observation and classification of laws which... | |
| George Henry Lewes - Positivism - 1871 - 372 pages
...supposed to inhere in various substances, and capable of engendering phenomena. In the Positive phase, the mind, convinced of the futility of all inquiry into causes and essences, restricts itself to the observation and classification of phenomena, and to the discovery of the invariable... | |
| 1872 - 644 pages
...that attraction in such doctrines as these, which are laid down by him : " In the Positivist phase the mind, convinced of the futility of all inquiry into causes and essences, restricts itself to the observation and classification of phenomena, and to the discovery of the invariable... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...that attraction in such doctrines as these, which are laid down by him : " In the Positivist phase the mind, convinced of the futility of all inquiry into causes and essences, restricts itself to the observation and classification of phenomena, and to the discovery of the invariable... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1872 - 532 pages
...that attraction in such doctrines as these, which are laid down by him : " In the Positivist phase the mind, convinced of the futility of all inquiry into causes and eseenees, restricts itself to the observation and classification of phenomena, and to the discovery... | |
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