The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... tion presents itself , Is he , indeed , the chief in that community ? Conjectures , founded upon those analo- gies which we see to abound in the material system , present themselves on this ground , in support of a be- lief that there ...
... tion presents itself , Is he , indeed , the chief in that community ? Conjectures , founded upon those analo- gies which we see to abound in the material system , present themselves on this ground , in support of a be- lief that there ...
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... tion , is a supposition only - an hypothesis , of which there is , and can be , no proof . MIND , it is said— thought and feeling — is the one and only substance ; it is the one and only reality in the universe . The external world , as ...
... tion , is a supposition only - an hypothesis , of which there is , and can be , no proof . MIND , it is said— thought and feeling — is the one and only substance ; it is the one and only reality in the universe . The external world , as ...
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... tion with the weight , the feel , the hardness , and the taste and smell of the two metals ; the compound term , color of zinc , serves to bind together several qualities , affecting the senses of sight and touch , and which METAPHYSICS ...
... tion with the weight , the feel , the hardness , and the taste and smell of the two metals ; the compound term , color of zinc , serves to bind together several qualities , affecting the senses of sight and touch , and which METAPHYSICS ...
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... exist , does it release us from the no- tion of duration ; but when the human mind has come to touch this border , it must be content to retrace its be out- steps toward the concrete : whatever there may 40 THE WORLD OF MIND .
... exist , does it release us from the no- tion of duration ; but when the human mind has come to touch this border , it must be content to retrace its be out- steps toward the concrete : whatever there may 40 THE WORLD OF MIND .
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... tion of unconsciousness , or whether it might remain in such a state a day , or a century , or for ages . Ques- tions of this kind are physical , not metaphysical . But , whether the fact be so or not , it is certain that the ab ...
... tion of unconsciousness , or whether it might remain in such a state a day , or a century , or for ages . Ques- tions of this kind are physical , not metaphysical . But , whether the fact be so or not , it is certain that the ab ...
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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.