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... reply , may charge , if I mistake not , with the greatest chance of applause from their admirers . Let me hope that this consideration will win pardon for a preface which discourses of myself . I beg leave to state , not as a preacher ...
... reply , may charge , if I mistake not , with the greatest chance of applause from their admirers . Let me hope that this consideration will win pardon for a preface which discourses of myself . I beg leave to state , not as a preacher ...
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... — is more mys- tifying to a student than What is differentiation ? ' — because while he may truly answer , ' I know that I μη , X am ignorant of differentiation , ' he cannot reply , C 2 The First Clear Question . 19.
... — is more mys- tifying to a student than What is differentiation ? ' — because while he may truly answer , ' I know that I μη , X am ignorant of differentiation , ' he cannot reply , C 2 The First Clear Question . 19.
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Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. am ignorant of differentiation , ' he cannot reply , ' I know that I am ignorant of knowledge . ' ( 13. ) The first question which I propose to my- self at my starting - point is this : Can I find , without ...
Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. am ignorant of differentiation , ' he cannot reply , ' I know that I am ignorant of knowledge . ' ( 13. ) The first question which I propose to my- self at my starting - point is this : Can I find , without ...
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... . After a certain period of medita- tion on his improved faculty of vision , his friend B asks about his progress in the study of space , matter , and motion . :) } D A thus replies : ' I think I now see The First Clear Question . 33.
... . After a certain period of medita- tion on his improved faculty of vision , his friend B asks about his progress in the study of space , matter , and motion . :) } D A thus replies : ' I think I now see The First Clear Question . 33.
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Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. A thus replies : ' I think I now see how you have deluded yourself into the belief of an outward world of things in what you call space , and I can conceive how you have made it in part correspond to the algebra ...
Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. A thus replies : ' I think I now see how you have deluded yourself into the belief of an outward world of things in what you call space , and I can conceive how you have made it in part correspond to the algebra ...
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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.