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... Cosmos , I should still be , all the same as now , affirming and adoring , with thankful and exulting strains , the Unrevealed and Unrevealable save to Himself , who is not only the Revealed , Távτа кai év Tâσ , but is infinitely more ...
... Cosmos , I should still be , all the same as now , affirming and adoring , with thankful and exulting strains , the Unrevealed and Unrevealable save to Himself , who is not only the Revealed , Távτа кai év Tâσ , but is infinitely more ...
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... OF THE PRESENCE OF SO - CALLED MATTER IN THE Cosmos : THE SECOND QUESTION , ' HOW CAN WE FIND MATTER ? ' CHAPTER VI . SOMETHING ABOUT BOSCOVICH , BERKELEY , AND Kant I 17 36 53 73 888 CHAPTER VII . CONTINUATION OF THE SEARCH FOR SO -
... OF THE PRESENCE OF SO - CALLED MATTER IN THE Cosmos : THE SECOND QUESTION , ' HOW CAN WE FIND MATTER ? ' CHAPTER VI . SOMETHING ABOUT BOSCOVICH , BERKELEY , AND Kant I 17 36 53 73 888 CHAPTER VII . CONTINUATION OF THE SEARCH FOR SO -
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... Cosmos , about my body or other bodies , or other thinkers , or anything existent with my thinking self , I at first know nothing ; that is , I will admit or grant nothing , until I know how to find and demonstrate it . If I have proof ...
... Cosmos , about my body or other bodies , or other thinkers , or anything existent with my thinking self , I at first know nothing ; that is , I will admit or grant nothing , until I know how to find and demonstrate it . If I have proof ...
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... Cosmos any other being whatever , bodily or spiritual , out of my thinking self . ( 6. ) I shall often write I sition of Des Cartes in ( 5 ) . upon the reader once for all , am ' for the full propo- But let me impress it that it is ...
... Cosmos any other being whatever , bodily or spiritual , out of my thinking self . ( 6. ) I shall often write I sition of Des Cartes in ( 5 ) . upon the reader once for all , am ' for the full propo- But let me impress it that it is ...
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... Cosmos are not , even all finite conscious thought included , instead of being in constant flux ; in constant alternation of flux and pause ? The constant flux is an assumption unproved , which is outside my philosophy . Another remark ...
... Cosmos are not , even all finite conscious thought included , instead of being in constant flux ; in constant alternation of flux and pause ? The constant flux is an assumption unproved , which is outside my philosophy . Another remark ...
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Page 2 - Per substantiam intelligo id, quod in se est et per se concipitur; hoc est id, cujus conceptus non indiget conceptu alterius rei, a quo formari debeat.
Page 263 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 39 - The motion of our body follows upon the command of our will. Of this we are every moment conscious. But the means, by which this is effected; the energy, by which the will performs so extraordinary an operation; of this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that it must for ever escape our most diligent enquiry.
Page 45 - ... produce at last the motion of our limbs, yet operate in such a manner as is wholly beyond our comprehension? We may, therefore, conclude from the whole, I hope, without any temerity, though with assurance; that our idea of power is not copied from any sentiment or consciousness of power within ourselves, when we give rise to animal motion, or apply our limbs to their proper use and office. That their motion follows the command of the will is a matter of common experience, like other natural events:...
Page 233 - The Law of Causation, the recognition of which is the main pillar of inductive science, is but the familiar truth that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded It...
Page 334 - How, therefore, shall we satisfy ourselves concerning the cause of that Being whom you suppose the Author of Nature, or, according to your system of Anthropomorphism, the ideal world, into which you trace the material? Have we not the same reason to trace that ideal world into another ideal world, or new intelligent principle?
Page 241 - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
Page 213 - But that every one is at liberty to desire or not to desire, which is the real proposition involved in the dogma of free will, is negatived as much by the analysis of consciousness as by the contents of the preceding chapters.