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... living monkeys , and his wonderful parachute diagrams and ballooning demonstrations , how the wits they crept in and the ' wits they crept out , and sported the eyes and the temples about , ' are not a bit more life - science , because ...
... living monkeys , and his wonderful parachute diagrams and ballooning demonstrations , how the wits they crept in and the ' wits they crept out , and sported the eyes and the temples about , ' are not a bit more life - science , because ...
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... living force of planets or of suns ; but all these fine words are intelligible only because they suggest multiples of their own remembered will - effort . Will is not a force given to them externally among a number of other more ...
... living force of planets or of suns ; but all these fine words are intelligible only because they suggest multiples of their own remembered will - effort . Will is not a force given to them externally among a number of other more ...
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... living God is energizing with perfection adorable of Science , and with a purpose of progress and unfolding of a benig- nant counsel for all - or with the blindly driven atoms , whether sailing or not in a nondescript ether , of the ...
... living God is energizing with perfection adorable of Science , and with a purpose of progress and unfolding of a benig- nant counsel for all - or with the blindly driven atoms , whether sailing or not in a nondescript ether , of the ...
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... dispute their words . But alas I have not their learning ; and I am a sad infidel about their living and feeling protoplasm . What can be done ? ( 75. ) Let us hazard a supposition . If 122 Philosophy without Assumptions .
... dispute their words . But alas I have not their learning ; and I am a sad infidel about their living and feeling protoplasm . What can be done ? ( 75. ) Let us hazard a supposition . If 122 Philosophy without Assumptions .
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... Living God , the conscious Cause of All , in his address from the Presidential chair of the British Association , in 1871 , thus speaks : ' The greatest achievement yet made in molecular theory of the properties of matter is the kinetic ...
... Living God , the conscious Cause of All , in his address from the Presidential chair of the British Association , in 1871 , thus speaks : ' The greatest achievement yet made in molecular theory of the properties of matter is the kinetic ...
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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.