The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... follow this rule in the present instance , and shall adopt an arrangement which , as I believe , will be ad- vantageous to the reader , although it deviates from the direct path . 31. Looking to subjects of all kinds which ordinarily ...
... follow this rule in the present instance , and shall adopt an arrangement which , as I believe , will be ad- vantageous to the reader , although it deviates from the direct path . 31. Looking to subjects of all kinds which ordinarily ...
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... follow them , and can trace their relation one to another with any such ease as that which attaches to arithmetical or geomet- rical reasoning . At the end of a book of arithmetic various examples are placed before the learner for his ...
... follow them , and can trace their relation one to another with any such ease as that which attaches to arithmetical or geomet- rical reasoning . At the end of a book of arithmetic various examples are placed before the learner for his ...
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... follows in the track of purely abstract speculation . 135. In proportion as the intellectual faculties are predominant , and if they be also in a healthy condi- tion , the tendency is strong to simplify , and to reduce things to classes ...
... follows in the track of purely abstract speculation . 135. In proportion as the intellectual faculties are predominant , and if they be also in a healthy condi- tion , the tendency is strong to simplify , and to reduce things to classes ...
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... follows the other , reason comes to its rest , or to its state of acquiescence ; and this rest takes its character from that condition of the mind to which , at the moment , it happens to be opposed . For instance , it may be opposed to ...
... follows the other , reason comes to its rest , or to its state of acquiescence ; and this rest takes its character from that condition of the mind to which , at the moment , it happens to be opposed . For instance , it may be opposed to ...
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... authority above us , and which is to be vindicated at some future time , this idea and this recognition follow us when we would run from them ; they meet us ever and again on our path when we may have lost sight of 88 THE WORLD OF MIND .
... authority above us , and which is to be vindicated at some future time , this idea and this recognition follow us when we would run from them ; they meet us ever and again on our path when we may have lost sight of 88 THE WORLD OF MIND .
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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.