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... clear idea ( and , as the late Professor Whewell taught , all discoveries are owing to sound meta- physical conceptions ) ; not so clear the term " conservation of energy , " which is not so ex- plicit , but is now so frequently ...
... clear idea ( and , as the late Professor Whewell taught , all discoveries are owing to sound meta- physical conceptions ) ; not so clear the term " conservation of energy , " which is not so ex- plicit , but is now so frequently ...
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... clear statement , modern writers speak of the correlation ( for- getting to add the word " force " ) of leaves and roots , of mental and nerve force , of vital and phy- sical force , & c . If we apply the test of Grove's theory to the ...
... clear statement , modern writers speak of the correlation ( for- getting to add the word " force " ) of leaves and roots , of mental and nerve force , of vital and phy- sical force , & c . If we apply the test of Grove's theory to the ...
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... instincts . " On the subject of time and space , Dr. Tyndall adopts Mr. Herbert Spencer's views , and in not very clear language attempts to prove that time . and space are not forms of intuition as Kant taught 38 Materialism .
... instincts . " On the subject of time and space , Dr. Tyndall adopts Mr. Herbert Spencer's views , and in not very clear language attempts to prove that time . and space are not forms of intuition as Kant taught 38 Materialism .
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... clear- ness and vigour that this doctrine [ material atheism ] commends itself to my mind ; that in the presence of stronger and healthier thought it ever dissolves and disappears , as offering no solution of the mystery in which we ...
... clear- ness and vigour that this doctrine [ material atheism ] commends itself to my mind ; that in the presence of stronger and healthier thought it ever dissolves and disappears , as offering no solution of the mystery in which we ...
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... and far - reaching scientific question he has de- liberately , so many times and in so many ways , forced into public notice , but that it is a duty he owes to science to state more clearly than he has 44 Materialism .
... and far - reaching scientific question he has de- liberately , so many times and in so many ways , forced into public notice , but that it is a duty he owes to science to state more clearly than he has 44 Materialism .
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Página 9 - 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 25 - You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy of life.
Página 39 - 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 42 - 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 25 - ... 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 seea-ble 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 65 - 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.