The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... animal organization , is always clear- ly distinguishable therefrom as the subject of intellect- ual science . But when we attempt to describe it , we can only do so as if it were one with that animal frame- work , apart from which we ...
... animal organization , is always clear- ly distinguishable therefrom as the subject of intellect- ual science . But when we attempt to describe it , we can only do so as if it were one with that animal frame- work , apart from which we ...
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... animal or vegetable , is wholly unimportant in relation to our present subject . We do not concern ourselves with Mind until it comes to manifest itself clearly by its own distinctive characteristics ; and these , if we as- cend a few ...
... animal or vegetable , is wholly unimportant in relation to our present subject . We do not concern ourselves with Mind until it comes to manifest itself clearly by its own distinctive characteristics ; and these , if we as- cend a few ...
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... animal system , nor touch the constitution of the mind ; genera and species belong to the shell of life , not to its kernel . 9. The distinction here made between the animal structure , with its specific contour , and its functions ...
... animal system , nor touch the constitution of the mind ; genera and species belong to the shell of life , not to its kernel . 9. The distinction here made between the animal structure , with its specific contour , and its functions ...
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... animal organization ; that consciousness , feeling , reason , are secretions from the brain and nervous substance throughout the body , and that , therefore , the alleged distinction between ani- mal physiology and the science of Mind ...
... animal organization ; that consciousness , feeling , reason , are secretions from the brain and nervous substance throughout the body , and that , therefore , the alleged distinction between ani- mal physiology and the science of Mind ...
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... animal life ; and so , in like manner , but not more so , is MIND . At all these points alike , and as to each of them for the same reasons , we reach a limit which the human mind has never yet passed . But it is not true that Mind is ...
... animal life ; and so , in like manner , but not more so , is MIND . At all these points alike , and as to each of them for the same reasons , we reach a limit which the human mind has never yet passed . But it is not true that Mind is ...
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abstract notions advance affections affirm animal mind animal orders animal organization Astronomy beauty become belief belongs bring brute causation cerning chemical affinity colors concerning condition consciousness constitution course difference distinction elementary book elements emotions existence fact faculty feeling force forward give ground human family human mind human nature human voice hyæna hypothesis ical idea imagine impulse individual infinite infusoria instance instincts intel intellectual philosophy intensity kind labor less logical look Love manner mass material world mathematical matter means ment Mental Philosophy merely metaphysical modes moral motives musical ness never objects ourselves philosophy of Mind physical sciences physiology pleasurable possess present principle purpose question reality reason regard relation remote rudiment scheme sciousness selfism sensations sense social sort species structure supposition sympathies take effect taste things thought tion true truth volition words world of Mind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 255 - 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 and pleasures but our own.
Seite 103 - 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 106 - 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.