The Power of the Soul Over the BodyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1868 - 436 pages |
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... ACTION OF MIND ON THE NERVOUS ORGANISATION IN MEMORY , ETC. • · • • • 223 . 230 VIII . THE CONNECTION OF MEMORY WITH THE HABIT AND CON- DITION OF THE BRAIN , AND THE USE OF THE BODY 241 IX . THE INFLUENCE OF MENTAL HABIT ON THE ...
... ACTION OF MIND ON THE NERVOUS ORGANISATION IN MEMORY , ETC. • · • • • 223 . 230 VIII . THE CONNECTION OF MEMORY WITH THE HABIT AND CON- DITION OF THE BRAIN , AND THE USE OF THE BODY 241 IX . THE INFLUENCE OF MENTAL HABIT ON THE ...
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... action of anything is a change in the condition of the thing itself in relation to other things . All this we associate with our idea of matter , and of the force , or power , in- herent in matter and evinced by its action on our minds ...
... action of anything is a change in the condition of the thing itself in relation to other things . All this we associate with our idea of matter , and of the force , or power , in- herent in matter and evinced by its action on our minds ...
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... action . Thus we unavoidably connect the idea of active existence with the idea of will - power . At first the young child , with its will at work , per- sonifies everything , because he is conscious of himself in becoming conscious of ...
... action . Thus we unavoidably connect the idea of active existence with the idea of will - power . At first the young child , with its will at work , per- sonifies everything , because he is conscious of himself in becoming conscious of ...
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... action , and the so - called force or law of action which maintains matter in its con- ditions . Will is not blind material force , but a power put forth with intent . By way of illustrating what is meant by force in relation to matter ...
... action , and the so - called force or law of action which maintains matter in its con- ditions . Will is not blind material force , but a power put forth with intent . By way of illustrating what is meant by force in relation to matter ...
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... action belong to the unseen world , except so far as they are both connected with the move- ments of matter . But ... actions , however , are known to the soul through direct con- sciousness . The soul indeed receives impressions from ...
... action belong to the unseen world , except so far as they are both connected with the move- ments of matter . But ... actions , however , are known to the soul through direct con- sciousness . The soul indeed receives impressions from ...
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Page 237 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 430 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 237 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 430 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 251 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 170 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed ; 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 42 - Os homini sublime dedit, — ccelumque tueri Jussit, — et erectos ad sidera — tollere vultus.
Page 80 - There was one of two ways to be adopted : either to go on to build up a language of signs on the basis of the natural language which she had already commenced herself, or to teach her the purely arbitrary language in common use: that is, to give her a sign for every individual thing, or to give her a knowledge of letters by...
Page 317 - And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 80 - The poor child had sat in mute amazement, and patiently imitated everything her teacher did ; but now the truth began to flash upon her ; her intellect began to work. She perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind ; and at once her countenance lighted up with a human expression.