The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... means of our own con- sciousness and our own modes of action . This crite- rion , if there were no other , would sufficiently serve the purpose of assigning any particular class of beings to its due place , as belonging to the upper or ...
... means of our own con- sciousness and our own modes of action . This crite- rion , if there were no other , would sufficiently serve the purpose of assigning any particular class of beings to its due place , as belonging to the upper or ...
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... means or an instrument of education during the later years of a course of study . It is greatly with a view to this purpose that this elementary book is put into the reader's hand . 24. Something still more definite than this may fairly ...
... means or an instrument of education during the later years of a course of study . It is greatly with a view to this purpose that this elementary book is put into the reader's hand . 24. Something still more definite than this may fairly ...
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... 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 science will be more than a temporary means ...
... 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 science will be more than a temporary means ...
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... means of intellectual discipline . Further than this , the pop- ular belief is well founded ; for it must be granted that , when metaphysical problems are treated controversial- ly , and critically , and historically , the discussion of ...
... means of intellectual discipline . Further than this , the pop- ular belief is well founded ; for it must be granted that , when metaphysical problems are treated controversial- ly , and critically , and historically , the discussion of ...
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... means of some newly - phrased expression of abstract notions , we have penetrated the mysterics of being , and have placed ourselves in advance of the philosophy of our times . The only advance which the human reason is likely ever to ...
... means of some newly - phrased expression of abstract notions , we have penetrated the mysterics of being , and have placed ourselves in advance of the philosophy of our times . The only advance which the human reason is likely ever to ...
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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.