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... remains intellectually impassable , " the great physicist disqualified materialism to sit as a juror in the case of conscious survival of death . Were brain and thought related to each other as cause and effect , materialism would hold ...
... remains intellectually impassable , " the great physicist disqualified materialism to sit as a juror in the case of conscious survival of death . Were brain and thought related to each other as cause and effect , materialism would hold ...
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... remains a mystery . Browning , in " Abt Vogler , " furnishes a suggestive paral- lel here . Could we explain how , from the phys- ical musical notes , psychical emotional states are awakened , we would have solved the riddle of the ...
... remains a mystery . Browning , in " Abt Vogler , " furnishes a suggestive paral- lel here . Could we explain how , from the phys- ical musical notes , psychical emotional states are awakened , we would have solved the riddle of the ...
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... mental support . " No one can see a thought , a sensation . Refine and attenuate the atoms of gray matter in the brain as much as you please , your thought still remains utterly unlike the whitest , thinnest 39 THE THESIS OF MATERIALISM.
... mental support . " No one can see a thought , a sensation . Refine and attenuate the atoms of gray matter in the brain as much as you please , your thought still remains utterly unlike the whitest , thinnest 39 THE THESIS OF MATERIALISM.
Page 40
... remains as unexplained as ever . The difference between the tone of the marriage bell which begins happiness and that of the funeral toll which ends it cannot be stated in terms of " heat - waves " or the " concurrence of brain - atoms ...
... remains as unexplained as ever . The difference between the tone of the marriage bell which begins happiness and that of the funeral toll which ends it cannot be stated in terms of " heat - waves " or the " concurrence of brain - atoms ...
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... remains the same . To this we now add the fact of interatomic spaces in the brain , gaps between the atoms to which " mind- sides " have been attributed and whose sup- posed " aggregation " both " produced and maintained thought . " No ...
... remains the same . To this we now add the fact of interatomic spaces in the brain , gaps between the atoms to which " mind- sides " have been attributed and whose sup- posed " aggregation " both " produced and maintained thought . " No ...
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Page 36 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 47 - Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw...
Page 201 - I'll tell thee; for thy sake I will lay hold Of all good aims, and consecrate to thee, In worthy deeds, each moment that is told While thou, beloved one! art far from me.
Page 187 - As for Venice and her people, merely born to bloom and drop, 'Here on earth they bore their fruitage, mirth and folly were the crop: ' What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? "Dust and ashes!
Page 35 - ... 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. 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...
Page 196 - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 200 - WHAT shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face ? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace ? Shall I in slumber steep each weary sense, Weary with longing ?— shall I flee away Into past days, and with some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day ? Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of casting...
Page 178 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 187 - And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings ? or will they, Who...
Page 11 - Thou art immortal— so am I : I feel— I feel my immortality o'ersweep All pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peal, Like the eternal thunders of the deep, Into my ears this truth— "thou liv'st for ever!