The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... instincts of reason prevail over the specious sophistries of an hour , and we return with comfort to modes of thinking and speaking which suit us well , just because they are in harmony with the Mind itself , and because they have ...
... instincts of reason prevail over the specious sophistries of an hour , and we return with comfort to modes of thinking and speaking which suit us well , just because they are in harmony with the Mind itself , and because they have ...
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... instincts which he obeys unconsciously and invariably , and also under the guidance of that knowl- edge of the outer world which he receives by the organs of sight , hearing , smell , and perhaps other senses with which man is not ...
... instincts which he obeys unconsciously and invariably , and also under the guidance of that knowl- edge of the outer world which he receives by the organs of sight , hearing , smell , and perhaps other senses with which man is not ...
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... Instincts and sensations are subservient to a definite purpose , or they are means which come to their end in some higher or more comprehensive intention . The action or movement of the animal which ensues reflects , not the instinct ...
... Instincts and sensations are subservient to a definite purpose , or they are means which come to their end in some higher or more comprehensive intention . The action or movement of the animal which ensues reflects , not the instinct ...
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... instinctive convictions which are part of the constitution of the human mind , and which are the foundation of all knowledge , ordi- nary or scientific . 103. On the one hand , to reject these primary con- victions because they can not ...
... instinctive convictions which are part of the constitution of the human mind , and which are the foundation of all knowledge , ordi- nary or scientific . 103. On the one hand , to reject these primary con- victions because they can not ...
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... whether or not in strictness we should call it an instinctive feeling , has in fact been regarded as an elementary constituent of the human mind . The question whether it be so or not does not belong 64 THE WORLD OF MIND .
... whether or not in strictness we should call it an instinctive feeling , has in fact been regarded as an elementary constituent of the human mind . The question whether it be so or not does not belong 64 THE 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.