The World of Mind. An Elementary Book

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Jackson and Walford, 1857 - 399 Seiten

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Seite 271 - The expositions already afforded sufficiently indicate the source of this association, which exerts a powerful and salutary influence in human life. The idea of a man enjoying a train of pleasures, or happiness, is felt by every body to be a pleasurable idea. The idea of a man under a train of sufferings or pains is equally felt to be a painful idea. This can arise from nothing but the association of our own pleasures with the first idea, and of our own pains with the second. We never feel any pains...
Seite 106 - That this is the fact might be very safely inferred from what has hitherto been, the issue, without an exception, of the many ingenious theories propounded with the intention of laying open the world of Mind by the help of chemistry, or any of those sciences that are properly called physical. Every theory resting upon this basis has presently gone off into some quackery, raised for awhile among the uneducated, and soon forgotten.
Seite 110 - Much of that which is to invite attention in this elementary book will consist of an exhibition — first, of what is common to all orders of living beings ; and then a setting forth of what is peculiar to the human mind, and which is the ground of its immeasurable superiority.
Seite 10 - In all departments of philosophy, human curiosity is stopped at an earlier, or at a later stage by an impassable barrier, it meets what is inscrutable. The constitution of the elements in the material world Is inscrutable ; the gravitating force, and the principle of chemical affinity, and the nature of light, and the principle of vegetable life, those things an...
Seite 106 - That this is the fact might very safely be inferred from what hitherto has been the issue, without an exception, of the many ingenious theories propounded, with the intention of laying open the world of Mind by the help of chemistry, or any of those sciences that are properly called Physical.
Seite 111 - The sun and moon shed unwholesome influences from above ; the earth exhales poisonous damps from beneath ; the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea...
Seite 34 - nothing," if it be taken in its simple sense, does not quite satisfy the mind. The annihilated sphere has left a sort of residual meaning in its place, or a shadow of reality, which asks a name. This remainder of meaning is symbolised or represented by the word SPACE ; and when we have accepted it, we feel as if an intellectual necessity had been supplied. To the bare notion which the word
Seite 4 - ... called, — we give Mr. Taylor's own exposition : " MIND, so far as we are cognisant of it by our individual consciousness, and by our intercourse with those like ourselves, and by observation of the various orders of animated beings around us, although it is conjoined with an animal organisation, is always clearly distinguishable therefrom as the subject of intellectual science. But when we attempt to describe it, we can do so only as if it were one with that animal framework, apart from which...
Seite 97 - ... declared. It also demands an independence of some kind in the other nature, intervening between the one will and the other will. Where the relationship of law, not as a physical principle, but as a rule and motive is brought in, there we must find a break — an interval, — and a reciprocal counteraction A scheme of government taking its bearing upon the moral sense is not a chain along which sequences follow in a constant order ; but it is — a standing on the one side and a standing on the...
Seite 57 - ... between vegetable and animal organisations, are instances of the same kind ; as, for example, the several processes of nutrition, excretion, respiration, secretion, are found to be, to a certain extent, identical in principle ; that is to say, a law which, as we apprehend it, is not a reality any where existing, but is a pure abstraction, is recognised in this, in that, in many instances, which at the first view of them differ in many respects ; and they so differ, that it is with an emotion,...

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