MaterialismR. Hardwicke, 1875 - 68 páginas |
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... notions that the mechanical shock of atoms is the all - sufficient cause of things , and that the constitution of nature has not been " in any way determined by intelligent design " ; and he quotes the following atheistical passage from ...
... notions that the mechanical shock of atoms is the all - sufficient cause of things , and that the constitution of nature has not been " in any way determined by intelligent design " ; and he quotes the following atheistical passage from ...
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... notion baffles me that from these physical tremors things so utterly incongruous with them as sensation , thought , and emotion , can be derived . " " You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity ...
... notion baffles me that from these physical tremors things so utterly incongruous with them as sensation , thought , and emotion , can be derived . " " You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity ...
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... notion of the " technic of man " ; but it is our only mode of expressing our conception of the might and mystery of the Author of all things . How can man , with his finite faculties and limited language , speak of Infinite Power in ...
... notion of the " technic of man " ; but it is our only mode of expressing our conception of the might and mystery of the Author of all things . How can man , with his finite faculties and limited language , speak of Infinite Power in ...
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... notion germinal or living matter , as the latter word has recently been used with such a wide significance as to call forth the sarcasm - attributed to Max Müller- " that proto- plasm , after creating everything in the universe ...
... notion germinal or living matter , as the latter word has recently been used with such a wide significance as to call forth the sarcasm - attributed to Max Müller- " that proto- plasm , after creating everything in the universe ...
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Página 8 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Página 38 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Página 41 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Página 24 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Página 64 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 23 - Thus far our way is clear, but now comes my difficulty. Your atoms are individually without sensation, much more are they without intelligence. May I ask you, then, to try your hand upon this problem. Take your dead hydrogen atoms, your dead oxygen atoms, your dead carbon atoms, your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless; observe them running together and forming all imaginable...