Spiritual Philosophy: Founded on the Teaching of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1. köideMacmillan and Company, 1865 - 421 pages |
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absolute affirmed agency animal antecedent antecedent condition argument attribute Axiom Bransby Cooper called causal Chap character cloth Coleridge Coleridge's conceived conception concipiency conclusion connexion conscious considered constitutes contained contemplated Crown 8vo Deductive derived designated distinction divine doctrine Edition empirical knowledge essential experience expressed facts faculty Fcap genus gism Green ground Heir of Redclyffe human mind Idea ideal construction implies included indispensable individual inductive infer instances integrity intelligence invariable J. S. Mill judgement Julius Cæsar logical major premiss major term manifold means mental middle term moral namely nature necessary Noumenon object observed operance Pantheism particular phenomena Predicate principle proposition racter reader reality realized recognised relation result RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Sect self-consciousness self-ponency sense sensible Speculative Reason sphere Spiritual Philosophy Subsect.D Substance syllogism tendency things thought tion Totality true truth Understanding unity universal Vital Dynamics whole
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Page 101 - Let them praise the Name of the Lord : for he spake the word, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.
Page 113 - All animals which have a welldeveloped respiratory system, and therefore aerate the blood, perfectly agree in being warm-blooded, while those whose respiratory system is imperfect do not maintain a temperature much exceeding that of the surrounding medium ; we may argue from the two-fold experience that the change which takes place in the blood by respiration is the cause of animal heat.
Page 85 - The class is steadily fixed, though not precisely limited ; it is given, though not circumscribed ; it is determined, not by a boundary line without, but by a central point within ; not by what it strictly excludes, but by what it eminently includes ; by an example, not by a precept ; in short, instead of Definition we have a Type for our director.
Page 97 - For in attending too exclusively to the relations which the past or passing events and objects bear to general truth, and the moods of his own Thought, the most intelligent man is sometimes in danger of overlooking that other relation in which they are likewise to be placed to the apprehension and sympathies of his hearers.
Page 98 - Hence the nearer the things and incidents in time and place, the more distant, disjointed, and impertinent to each other, and to any common purpose, will they appear in his narration : and this from the want of a staple...
Page 96 - For the absence of Method, which characterizes the uneducated, is occasioned by an habitual submission of the understanding to mere events and images as such, and independent of any power in the mind to classify or appropriate them. The general accompaniments of time and place are the only relations which persons of this class appear to regard in their statements.