 | John Dick - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 564 pages
...unconscious ; and merely serves as the instrument of sensation to the principle with which it is united. It is not the eye which sees, or the ear which hears, but the soul. Matter being incapable of intelligence, all the proofs of wisdom in the universe, are at the... | |
 | John Dick - Presbyterian Church - 1850 - 560 pages
...unconscious ; and merely serves as the instrument of sensation to the principle with which it is united. It is not the eye which sees, or the ear which hears, but the soul. Matter being incapable of intelligence, all the proofs of wisdom in the universe, are at the... | |
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... refinement, pure as a ray of light, and subtle as an impalpable and invisible gas ; it makes no nearer approximation to thought than in its rudest and most unshapely form. Even when organized, it is still unconscious ; and merely serves as the instrument... 