The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... conditions of life which we here specify . The world of Mind is , therefore , a wide world ; it constitutes a community that is incalculably extended and multiplied on all sides ; it is a commu- nity in the midst of which the human ...
... conditions of life which we here specify . The world of Mind is , therefore , a wide world ; it constitutes a community that is incalculably extended and multiplied on all sides ; it is a commu- nity in the midst of which the human ...
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... condition : they are reflective , by eminence , among their fellows , just as man is distinctively reflective among the orders around him . 27. We have said above ( 17 ) that because , in the department of mental philosophy , we sooner ...
... condition : they are reflective , by eminence , among their fellows , just as man is distinctively reflective among the orders around him . 27. We have said above ( 17 ) that because , in the department of mental philosophy , we sooner ...
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... condition . The reasoning faculty would gain no aid , but , on the contrary , would encumber itself by endeavoring to keep hold of some concrete conception , as , for instance , by thinking of dice , or pence , or any thing else at each ...
... condition . The reasoning faculty would gain no aid , but , on the contrary , would encumber itself by endeavoring to keep hold of some concrete conception , as , for instance , by thinking of dice , or pence , or any thing else at each ...
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... condition , and if it be disciplined also , it exercises an almost unlimited con- trol ; within its own home the Mind is absolute , or nearly so ; but as to the outer world , and the modes in which the outer world affects the Mind ...
... condition , and if it be disciplined also , it exercises an almost unlimited con- trol ; within its own home the Mind is absolute , or nearly so ; but as to the outer world , and the modes in which the outer world affects the Mind ...
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... conditions ; but while we have been looking at or thinking of it , we have ourselves passed through a history - we have existed through a line or flow of existences , of which , singly , some account might be rendered . This period is ...
... conditions ; but while we have been looking at or thinking of it , we have ourselves passed through a history - we have existed through a line or flow of existences , of which , singly , some account might be rendered . This period 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
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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.