The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... never found . Yet , in place of a continuous season of leisure , there has been given me the leisure moments and the hours of many thoughtful years . During these years the principal subjects of Intellectual Philosophy have been ...
... never found . Yet , in place of a continuous season of leisure , there has been given me the leisure moments and the hours of many thoughtful years . During these years the principal subjects of Intellectual Philosophy have been ...
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... never yet passed . But it is not true that Mind is more occult , as to its inner nature , than is matter , or than the principle of vegetative and animal life ; they are exactly as much so , and not more . But there is here a difference ...
... never yet passed . But it is not true that Mind is more occult , as to its inner nature , than is matter , or than the principle of vegetative and animal life ; they are exactly as much so , and not more . But there is here a difference ...
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... never lift rests upon the intellectual universe . We shall see that this is not the fact . The mystery is just as dark in the one case as it is in the other ; the ultimate problem which , on all sides , arrests human curiosity , is as ...
... never lift rests upon the intellectual universe . We shall see that this is not the fact . The mystery is just as dark in the one case as it is in the other ; the ultimate problem which , on all sides , arrests human curiosity , is as ...
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... never impart refined tastes , or give a full expansion to the intellect . 25. As much as this , or nearly as much , may be affirmed in behalf of intellectual philosophy . The hu- man mind , in the study of its own structure , elabo ...
... never impart refined tastes , or give a full expansion to the intellect . 25. As much as this , or nearly as much , may be affirmed in behalf of intellectual philosophy . The hu- man mind , in the study of its own structure , elabo ...
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... never pass from their purely abstract 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 ...
... never pass from their purely abstract 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 ...
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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.