| James Ward - Agnosticism - 1899 - 332 pages
...Huxley, "the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation and the concomitant . . . banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity . . . [till] the realm of matter and law is coextensive with knowledge, with feeling, with action."1... | |
| James Gurnhill - Suicide - 1902 - 284 pages
...conscious automatism as the logical outcome of Naturalism and the Mechanical Theory, thus wrote : " Any one who is acquainted with the history of science...banishment from all regions of human thought of what U't call spirit and spontaneity." — Collected Essays, i. 159. And again, " If these positions are... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1900 - 548 pages
...spirit to matter, and sets up unchangeable law as supreme' (i. 186). It means, in the words of Huxley, ' the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation and the concomitant . . . banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity . . . [till]... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1901 - 200 pages
...same forces producing the same phenomena. "The progress of science," says Professor Huxley, "has meant the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." In this general research man has had his due share of attention. Former theories about him have been... | |
| 1901 - 240 pages
...cramped and artificial life. The late Professor Huxley said, in describing the attitude of science : "Its progress has in all ages meant, and now more than ever means, the gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." But in... | |
| International New Thought Alliance - New Thought - 1901 - 256 pages
...cramped and artificial life. The late Professor Huxley said, in describing the attitude of science: "Its progress has in all ages meant, and now more than ever means, the gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." But in... | |
| James Ellington McGee - Christian life - 1907 - 314 pages
...subordinated to matter. As Professor Huxley, the enthusiastic champion of conscious automatism, puts it, ' ' The extension of the province of what we call matter and causation has had as its concomitant the banishment of what we are pleased to term spirit and spontaneity from... | |
| James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - Ethics - 1917 - 942 pages
...Physical Basis of Life,' from which we ? noted above, Huxley says (Collected Essays, i. 59, 164) : 'Any one who is acquainted with the history of science will admit that Ite progress has, in all ages, meant, and now more than ever means, the extension of the province of... | |
| Robert Mark Wenley - Bible - 1909 - 396 pages
...mind, natural causes are found to suffice for natural effects. As Huxley said, science means " the gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." ' When European culture had accustomed itself to the Copernican astronomy, no one objected to the substitution... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Readers - 1910 - 446 pages
...impossibility 5 to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause, any one who is acquainted with the history of science...more than ever, means, the extension of the province 10 of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of... | |
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