The World of Mind: An Elementary Book

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Harper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten

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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.

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