The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... 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 , or ...
... 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 , or ...
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... pass into a spheroidal figure - prolate or oblate ; or it assumes any other form , whether regular or irregular . But if , beyond all these subtractions of sensible qualities or these substitutions , we go on to imagine this same solid ...
... pass into a spheroidal figure - prolate or oblate ; or it assumes any other form , whether regular or irregular . But if , beyond all these subtractions of sensible qualities or these substitutions , we go on to imagine this same solid ...
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... pass through a moment , an hour , or any other period , in utter unconsciousness , and yet . should continue to be ; and in a moment after such a period , might wake up to the varied experiences of common life . 76. The question is not ...
... pass through a moment , an hour , or any other period , in utter unconsciousness , and yet . should continue to be ; and in a moment after such a period , might wake up to the varied experiences of common life . 76. The question is not ...
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... pass at this time - animal happiness , taxed as it is with the liabil- ity to momentary organic pain , the pangs of death in- cluded , is taxed in no other way . We may certain- ly affirm this , because a liability to suffer in any ...
... pass at this time - animal happiness , taxed as it is with the liabil- ity to momentary organic pain , the pangs of death in- cluded , is taxed in no other way . We may certain- ly affirm this , because a liability to suffer in any ...
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... pass away , and would quickly be lost to conscious- ness . But perceptions gathered from sensations , and especially such as combine the evidence of two or more of the senses , are persistent and adhesive , and they constitute the ...
... pass away , and would quickly be lost to conscious- ness . But perceptions gathered from sensations , and especially such as combine the evidence of two or more of the senses , are persistent and adhesive , and they constitute the ...
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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.