The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science ExaminedMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 460 pages |
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Page 29 - All vital action may be said to be the result of the ' molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. ' And if so, it must be true in the same sense, and to ' the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am ' now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding ' them, are the expression of molecular changes in
Page 322 - But the view we thus obtain of its relation to Idealism is very different from that which is suggested by Professor Huxley, when he says, as quoted above :— ' It is of little moment whether we express the ' phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the
Page 78 - nervous actions present, have answering subjective ' phenomena in the forms of feeling we distinguish as ' desires. Thus, impossible as it is to get immediate ' proof that feeling and nervous action are the inner and 'outer faces of the same change, yet the hypothesis 'that they are so harmonizes with all the observed
Page 413 - Though the Absolute cannot in any manner or degree be known, in the strict sense of knowing, yet we find that its positive existence is a necessary datum of consciousness ; that so long as consciousness continues, we cannot for an instant rid it of this datum ; and that thus the belief which this datum constitutes, has a higher warrant than any
Page 419 - It was similarly shown that no relation in consciousness can "resemble, or be in any way akin to, its source beyond consciousness." Similarly, however, it was there pointed out that the assumption " inevitably made in all reasoning used to prove the relativity of relations," is " that there exists beyond consciousness, conditions of objective manifestation which are symbolized by relations as we conceive them.
Page 80 - yet it does not differ very much from nervous shocks of other kinds. An electric discharge sent through the body, causes a feeling akin to that which a sudden loud report causes. A strong unexpected impression made through the eyes, as by a flash of lightning, similarly gives rise to a start or shock. The fact that sudden brief disturbances
Page 80 - If the different sensations known as sounds are built out of a common unit, is it not to be rationally inferred that so likewise are the different sensations known as tastes, and the different sensations known as odours, and the different sensations known as colours