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This ferment in the animal economy darkens and confounds the intellect . It
produceth vain terrours and vain conceits , and stiinulates the foul with mad
desires , which , not being natural , nothing in nature can satisfy . No wonder ,
therefore ...
This ferment in the animal economy darkens and confounds the intellect . It
produceth vain terrours and vain conceits , and stiinulates the foul with mad
desires , which , not being natural , nothing in nature can satisfy . No wonder ,
therefore ...
Page 107
Intellect , superadded to ¿therial spirit , fire , or light , moves , and moves
regularly , proceeding , in a method as the Stoics , or increasing and diminishing
by measure , as Heraclitus . expressed it . The Scoics held that fire
comprehended and ...
Intellect , superadded to ¿therial spirit , fire , or light , moves , and moves
regularly , proceeding , in a method as the Stoics , or increasing and diminishing
by measure , as Heraclitus . expressed it . The Scoics held that fire
comprehended and ...
Page 124
This divine love and intellect are not themselves obvious to our view , or
otherwise discerned than in their effects . Intellect enlightens , Love connects ,
and the sovereign Good attracts all things . 260 . All things are made for the
supreme good ...
This divine love and intellect are not themselves obvious to our view , or
otherwise discerned than in their effects . Intellect enlightens , Love connects ,
and the sovereign Good attracts all things . 260 . All things are made for the
supreme good ...
Page 134
Some Platonics indeed , regard life as the act of nature , in like manper as
intellection is of the mind or intellect . As the first intellect acts by understanding ,
so nature according to them acts or generates by living . Buç life is the act of the
soul ...
Some Platonics indeed , regard life as the act of nature , in like manper as
intellection is of the mind or intellect . As the first intellect acts by understanding ,
so nature according to them acts or generates by living . Buç life is the act of the
soul ...
Page 165
It is the opinion of Plato and his followers , that in the foul of man , prior and
superior to intellect , there is somewhat of an higher nature , by virtue of which we
are one ; and that by means of our one or unit , we are most closely joined to the
...
It is the opinion of Plato and his followers , that in the foul of man , prior and
superior to intellect , there is somewhat of an higher nature , by virtue of which we
are one ; and that by means of our one or unit , we are most closely joined to the
...
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| Title | Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Reprinted for W. Innys, 1744 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 10 okt. 2008 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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