The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... called to give attention to the very same facts , and then we must reason concerning them on the very same principles , and , at length , we must come to the very same conclusions . This in- consequence of the two theories will become ...
... called to give attention to the very same facts , and then we must reason concerning them on the very same principles , and , at length , we must come to the very same conclusions . This in- consequence of the two theories will become ...
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... called off from the pursuit of a fruitless speculation , and he gladly returns to a field of profitable labor and inquiry - a field on which there are inexhaustible riches to be gathered and housed . 16. In the region of intellectual ...
... called off from the pursuit of a fruitless speculation , and he gladly returns to a field of profitable labor and inquiry - a field on which there are inexhaustible riches to be gathered and housed . 16. In the region of intellectual ...
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... philosophy , what might be called a catholic belief concerning the intellectual and moral constitution of man . These appreciable advances to- ward an accepted system warrant the expectation that more will STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT . 17.
... philosophy , what might be called a catholic belief concerning the intellectual and moral constitution of man . These appreciable advances to- ward an accepted system warrant the expectation that more will STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT . 17.
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... called ; such are what- ever relates to sensation , perception , memory , and the like ; secondly , themes of a more abstruse kind , and which may be designated as METAPHYSICAL : the terms space , time , cause , and effect , belong to ...
... called ; such are what- ever relates to sensation , perception , memory , and the like ; secondly , themes of a more abstruse kind , and which may be designated as METAPHYSICAL : the terms space , time , cause , and effect , belong to ...
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... called into exercise , and has de- veloped itself in some good degree ; therefore , in strictness , it could only claim a subordinate place in a scheme of mental science , for the subjects it includes are fruits or results of a certain ...
... called into exercise , and has de- veloped itself in some good degree ; therefore , in strictness , it could only claim a subordinate place in a scheme of mental science , for the subjects it includes are fruits or results of a certain ...
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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.