| Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 350 pages
...philosophical impossibility to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material causo, any one who is acquainted with the history of science...admit, that its progress has, in all ages, meant, a«d now, more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation,... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - Agnosticism - 1887 - 350 pages
...have not found a soul." " The progress of science in all ages," says Professor Huxley, " has meant the extension of the province of what we call matter...thought, of what we call spirit and spontaneity." So much the worse for science ! There is such a thing as spirit, for this is merely a synonym for soul... | |
| 1887 - 732 pages
...Materialist, •»uuyré moi, is out of a passage which he quotes, in which I say that the progress of science means the extension of the province of what we call Matter and Force, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call Spirit... | |
| Religion - 1889 - 784 pages
...has been, and shall be, the sum of existence." 1 In another connection we find the following : " Any one who is acquainted with the history of science...meant, and now more than ever means, the extension of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant 1 Science and Culture, pp. 243 and 246. gradual... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - Ethics - 1890 - 332 pages
...forget it ? — in which he enforces what he deems "the great truth," that "the progress of science has, in all ages, meant, and now, more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what wo call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment, from all regions of human thought,... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - Ethics - 1890 - 368 pages
...Dr. Biichner . 249 his account of consciousness .... 249-252 his account of thought ..... 251 on " the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation "... 252-254 his discourse to the " Christian Young Men " of Cambridge 253 on the progress of modern... | |
| John Bascom - Christianity - 1891 - 248 pages
...dictum of Huxley that " the progress of science has in all ages meant, and now means more than ever, the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." Quite the reverse of this, knowledge, wisdom seems to us to be the extension and reconciliation of... | |
| Francis Howe Johnson - Reality - 1891 - 550 pages
...has been, and shall be, the sum of existence." 1 In another connection we find the following : " Any one who is acquainted with the history of science...meant, and now more than ever means, the extension of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human... | |
| James Houghton Kennedy - Natural theology - 1891 - 320 pages
...growing province of matter and causation ; " and we may discern the extent to which they hope to carry " the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." It is well to notice carefully in what way the theory thus propounded must, if true, affect our belief... | |
| James Houghton Kennedy - Natural theology - 1891 - 302 pages
...DESIGN AND MECHANICAL LAW. The progress of Science asserted to involve the extension of the province of matter and causation and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of spirit and spontaneity . . . . .31 How far can this gradual banishment possibly be carried ? . 32 Theory... | |
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