The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... reason , are secretions from the brain and nervous substance throughout the body , and that , therefore , the alleged distinction between ani- mal physiology and the science of Mind is illusory , or that it can be admitted only as a ...
... reason , are secretions from the brain and nervous substance throughout the body , and that , therefore , the alleged distinction between ani- mal physiology and the science of Mind is illusory , or that it can be admitted only as a ...
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... reason concerning them on the very same principles , and , at length , we must come to the very same conclusions . This in- consequence of the two theories will become still more manifest as we advance . The two theories will come to be ...
... reason concerning them on the very same principles , and , at length , we must come to the very same conclusions . This in- consequence of the two theories will become still more manifest as we advance . The two theories will come to be ...
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... reason be alleged in its recom- mendation , and to enhance , as far as possible , as well the intrinsic as the relative importance of the studies to which they have devoted themselves for life . The professors of intellectual philosophy ...
... reason be alleged in its recom- mendation , and to enhance , as far as possible , as well the intrinsic as the relative importance of the studies to which they have devoted themselves for life . The professors of intellectual philosophy ...
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... reason which place man , when cultured , in a position im- measurably in advance of the animal orders around him , are the fruit of processes of thought , in the course of which the Mind - not , indeed , as if disjoined from * Elements ...
... reason which place man , when cultured , in a position im- measurably in advance of the animal orders around him , are the fruit of processes of thought , in the course of which the Mind - not , indeed , as if disjoined from * Elements ...
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... reason sufficient for keeping these also apart , and for regarding them as entitled to an independent treatment . In like manner as we conceive of the relations of ex- tension and number as having an eternal reality , and accept them as ...
... reason sufficient for keeping these also apart , and for regarding them as entitled to an independent treatment . In like manner as we conceive of the relations of ex- tension and number as having an eternal reality , and accept them as ...
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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.