The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... true . Although , in one sense , we know more of Mind than we can ever know of matter , in another sense we know much less ; or , rather , there is , on this ground , less of that sort of knowledge which can be reported and spread out ...
... true . Although , in one sense , we know more of Mind than we can ever know of matter , in another sense we know much less ; or , rather , there is , on this ground , less of that sort of knowledge which can be reported and spread out ...
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... true that Mind is more occult , as to its inner nature , than is matter , or than the principle of vegetative and animal life ; they are exactly as much so , and not more . But there is here a difference to be noted which must not be ...
... true that Mind is more occult , as to its inner nature , than is matter , or than the principle of vegetative and animal life ; they are exactly as much so , and not more . But there is here a difference to be noted which must not be ...
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... true that some men a few they will be as compared with the mass - may , in these studies , find the means of ex- empting themselves , individually , from the violences of that current , and may , from this higher ground , take a wider ...
... true that some men a few they will be as compared with the mass - may , in these studies , find the means of ex- empting themselves , individually , from the violences of that current , and may , from this higher ground , take a wider ...
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... true , and believe that they must remain what they are , although all minds also were to become extinct . This , at least , must be said , that these ab- stract principles have an aspect of independent and B unchangeable reality , such ...
... true , and believe that they must remain what they are , although all minds also were to become extinct . This , at least , must be said , that these ab- stract principles have an aspect of independent and B unchangeable reality , such ...
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... true in fact , are easily made ; and it is also easy , in imagination , to make mental substitutions of the most incongruous kinds . Thus , although I have never seen a green horse , yet I can fancy such a one . I have never had in hand ...
... true in fact , are easily made ; and it is also easy , in imagination , to make mental substitutions of the most incongruous kinds . Thus , although I have never seen a green horse , yet I can fancy such a one . I have never had in hand ...
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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.