MaterialismR. Hardwicke, 1875 - 68 pages |
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... writers , and then proceeds to speak with very bad taste of the introduction of Christianity as one of the stumbling - blocks in the path of progress , though he pays a great and glowing tribute to the heroic fortitude and pure lives of ...
... writers , and then proceeds to speak with very bad taste of the introduction of Christianity as one of the stumbling - blocks in the path of progress , though he pays a great and glowing tribute to the heroic fortitude and pure lives of ...
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... ' to a flock of the terrified . is amusing ; but to the man himself xes it , the fun must be even perilously ng . " If the writer of this article , so ous for its choice English and gentle- manly tone , has seen Dr. Tyndall's Address , the.
... ' to a flock of the terrified . is amusing ; but to the man himself xes it , the fun must be even perilously ng . " If the writer of this article , so ous for its choice English and gentle- manly tone , has seen Dr. Tyndall's Address , the.
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... r , seizes with avidity on any speculative rk which may have fallen from the pen of eminent man that may confirm his own ɔn , whether in accordance or not with the B 2 general teaching of the writer . In this way he Materialism. ...
... r , seizes with avidity on any speculative rk which may have fallen from the pen of eminent man that may confirm his own ɔn , whether in accordance or not with the B 2 general teaching of the writer . In this way he Materialism. ...
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James Michell Winn. general teaching of the writer . In this way he lays hold of some remarks of Descartes on the phenomena ... writers who have held the atomic doctrine , in whole or part , mentions the names of Newton " Materialism . 21 ...
James Michell Winn. general teaching of the writer . In this way he lays hold of some remarks of Descartes on the phenomena ... writers who have held the atomic doctrine , in whole or part , mentions the names of Newton " Materialism . 21 ...
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... writers whom he rs favourable to his theory , from the period downwards , he comes to what < s upon as the crowning - point of all phy and knowledge , Mr. Darwin's hypo- of evolution , which he seems to regard as eatest discovery ever ...
... writers whom he rs favourable to his theory , from the period downwards , he comes to what < s upon as the crowning - point of all phy and knowledge , Mr. Darwin's hypo- of evolution , which he seems to regard as eatest discovery ever ...
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Page 8 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Page 38 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Page 41 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Page 24 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Page 64 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 23 - Thus far our way is clear, but now comes my difficulty. Your atoms are individually without sensation, much more are they without intelligence. May I ask you, then, to try your hand upon this problem. Take your dead hydrogen atoms, your dead oxygen atoms, your dead carbon atoms, your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless; observe them running together and forming all imaginable...