The World of Mind: An Elementary BookHarper & brothers, 1858 - 378 Seiten |
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... universe . The external world , as we call it , is a function of Mind , or it is one of its products . On this theory , as well as on the one above mentioned , the alleged distinction between animal physiology and the science of Mind ...
... universe . The external world , as we call it , is a function of Mind , or it is one of its products . On this theory , as well as on the one above mentioned , the alleged distinction between animal physiology and the science of Mind ...
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... universe may be freely explored in all directions , a pall which we can never lift rests upon the intellectual universe . We shall see that this is not the fact . The mystery is just as dark in the one case as it is in the other ; the ...
... universe may be freely explored in all directions , a pall which we can never lift rests upon the intellectual universe . We shall see that this is not the fact . The mystery is just as dark in the one case as it is in the other ; the ...
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... universe of life are fairly opened up , and if , in the place of the eva- nescent subtilties of a cold analysis , there is brought before us the boundless objects of that great system throughout which the energies of conscious life are ...
... universe of life are fairly opened up , and if , in the place of the eva- nescent subtilties of a cold analysis , there is brought before us the boundless objects of that great system throughout which the energies of conscious life are ...
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... universe , the Mind employs its faculties un- consciously as to the mechanism of its own powers : it would be absurd , therefore , as well as inconvenient , to bring the physical sciences into their places as chap- ters in a scheme of ...
... universe , the Mind employs its faculties un- consciously as to the mechanism of its own powers : it would be absurd , therefore , as well as inconvenient , to bring the physical sciences into their places as chap- ters in a scheme of ...
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... universe ; and it may go even be- yond this limit ; or the line which we have supposed to produce itself from point to point may go on moving forward in the same direction without end and forever . At any one stage of its progress ...
... universe ; and it may go even be- yond this limit ; or the line which we have supposed to produce itself from point to point may go on moving forward in the same direction without end and forever . At any one stage of its progress ...
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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
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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.