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... predict , although I cannot demonstrate , much of the future from the past . But when you talk about space , and mo- mentum , and motion , and distances , as you call them , in space , you are employing terms - I wish 30 Philosophy ...
... predict , although I cannot demonstrate , much of the future from the past . But when you talk about space , and mo- mentum , and motion , and distances , as you call them , in space , you are employing terms - I wish 30 Philosophy ...
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... predicted action which is the glory of ' I can , ' action which none but I can predict , prediction which none but I can fulfil . Is it not possible for honest men to agree in what is proof that I can ' ? If it be what none else ' I can ...
... predicted action which is the glory of ' I can , ' action which none but I can predict , prediction which none but I can fulfil . Is it not possible for honest men to agree in what is proof that I can ' ? If it be what none else ' I can ...
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Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. neither you nor your guardian angel can predict , and then again at intervals that you may beforehand prescribe ; if I engage to do this , and do it , should not that be evidence that I can , ' and that I know ...
Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. neither you nor your guardian angel can predict , and then again at intervals that you may beforehand prescribe ; if I engage to do this , and do it , should not that be evidence that I can , ' and that I know ...
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... predict how long it shall last ; I can predict which scale shall rise , and which shall fall , and by my will fulfil my predictions , maintaining the pos- tures of the scales as long as I please . Is it then absurd to speak of ...
... predict how long it shall last ; I can predict which scale shall rise , and which shall fall , and by my will fulfil my predictions , maintaining the pos- tures of the scales as long as I please . Is it then absurd to speak of ...
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... predict to you a curve which it shall describe before it reaches the earth , as well as the vertical plane in which ... prediction . When my will can thus combine at my pleasure with a physical force , compelling that force to work with ...
... predict to you a curve which it shall describe before it reaches the earth , as well as the vertical plane in which ... prediction . When my will can thus combine at my pleasure with a physical force , compelling that force to work with ...
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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.