The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... mass - may , in these studies , find the means of ex- empting themselves , individually , from the violences of that current , and may , from this higher ground , take a wider survey of social interests . 26. But to some minds mental ...
... mass - may , in these studies , find the means of ex- empting themselves , individually , from the violences of that current , and may , from this higher ground , take a wider survey of social interests . 26. But to some minds mental ...
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... mass . But at the moment when I attempt any such disjoining of qualities , I find the need of a term —a name , without the aid of which this shifting of my own conceptions would be difficult . This need of language in dealing with ...
... mass . But at the moment when I attempt any such disjoining of qualities , I find the need of a term —a name , without the aid of which this shifting of my own conceptions would be difficult . This need of language in dealing with ...
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... irregular . But if , beyond all these subtractions of sensible qualities or these substitutions , we go on to imagine this same solid mass to be entirely divested of form or definite B 2 METAPHYSICS : ULTIMATE ABSTRACTIONS . 33.
... irregular . But if , beyond all these subtractions of sensible qualities or these substitutions , we go on to imagine this same solid mass to be entirely divested of form or definite B 2 METAPHYSICS : ULTIMATE ABSTRACTIONS . 33.
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... mass between the right hand and the left hand , and find it resists my efforts to join hands : it is where it will not allow me to be at the same time . Yet it may become soft , or fluid , or gaseous ; nevertheless , and although now it ...
... mass between the right hand and the left hand , and find it resists my efforts to join hands : it is where it will not allow me to be at the same time . Yet it may become soft , or fluid , or gaseous ; nevertheless , and although now it ...
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... mass , I find that I am in command of a great advantage - I am using a power , as I am tempted to call it , without the aid of which my utmost strength would be insufficient to produce the desired effect . But whence comes this ...
... mass , I find that I am in command of a great advantage - I am using a power , as I am tempted to call it , without the aid of which my utmost strength would be insufficient to produce the desired effect . But whence comes this ...
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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.