The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... Thought , " I have held in view the purpose of following it by another on the same subjects , but treated more at large . A time of absolute leisure , fitted for the due performance of such a task , I have waited for and never found ...
... Thought , " I have held in view the purpose of following it by another on the same subjects , but treated more at large . A time of absolute leisure , fitted for the due performance of such a task , I have waited for and never found ...
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... thought , but a crowd of positive errors , that springs from inattention to this distinction . A 10. MAN - beyond comparison , and with a vast in- terval between him and the animal orders around him -takes 10 THE WORLD OF MIND .
... thought , but a crowd of positive errors , that springs from inattention to this distinction . A 10. MAN - beyond comparison , and with a vast in- terval between him and the animal orders around him -takes 10 THE WORLD OF MIND .
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... THOUGHT , or MIND , is noth- ing more than a function of the animal organization ; that consciousness , feeling , reason , are secretions from the brain and nervous substance throughout the body , and that , therefore , the alleged ...
... THOUGHT , or MIND , is noth- ing more than a function of the animal organization ; that consciousness , feeling , reason , are secretions from the brain and nervous substance throughout the body , and that , therefore , the alleged ...
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... thought must be consigned to popular language , which , at the best , is a precarious medium for the conveyance of ab- stract notions . way 17. Hence it is that , at an early stage of our prog- ress on this ground , we feel as if we had ...
... thought must be consigned to popular language , which , at the best , is a precarious medium for the conveyance of ab- stract notions . way 17. Hence it is that , at an early stage of our prog- ress on this ground , we feel as if we had ...
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... thought on this ground still possess a claim to be listened to , for they may be as good as some of later date , and they may be preferable to the very last that have appeared . consciousness of this fact , on the part of those who ...
... thought on this ground still possess a claim to be listened to , for they may be as good as some of later date , and they may be preferable to the very last that have appeared . consciousness of this fact , on the part of those who ...
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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.