Adventures in Philosophy

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G. Allen & Unwin, Limited, 1926 - 345 pages
 

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Page 333 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 163 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 333 - It is said, it was because Adam ate the apple that he was lost, or fell. I say, it was because of his claiming something for his own, and because of his I, Mine, Me, and the like. Had he eaten seven apples, and yet never claimed anything for his own, he would not have fallen: but as soon as he called something his own, he fell, and would have fallen if he had never touched an apple.
Page 159 - Vorbei! ein dummes Wort. Warum vorbei? Vorbei und reines Nicht, vollkommnes Einerlei! Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen ! Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen! ,Da ist's vorbei!' Was ist daran zu lesen? Es ist so gut, als wär' es nicht gewesen, Und treibt sich doch im Kreis, als wenn es wäre.
Page 49 - ... that likeness of outward form and likeness of inner experience at least in some cases go together. The plausibility of the usual subjectivist account of the way in which we come to ascribe real existence to our fellows, is simply due to its tacitly ignoring this vital point. How, then, do we actually learn the existence of feeling purposive experience outside our own ? The answer is obvious. We learn it by the very same process by which we come to the clear consciousness of ourselves. It is a...
Page 108 - The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. That which we so much dread in death, the annihilation of our permanency, actually occurs in life in abundant measure. That which is most valued by us, remains preserved in countless copies, or, in cases of exceptional excellence, is even preserved of itself.
Page 52 - It has then to be accepted as an empirical fact that a neural process of a certain level of development possesses the quality of consciousness and is thereby a mental process ; and, 1 For the qualifications as to position in Time see vol. i. pp. 130 ff. alternately, a mental process is also a vital one of a certain order.
Page 335 - That an evil spirit, or a man is, liveth, and the like, is altogether good and of God ; for God is the Being of all that are, and the Life of all that live, and the Wisdom of all the wise ; for all things have their being more truly in God than in themselves...
Page 161 - ... would be moved out of its place into that of st : yet this would be necessary if to one and the same consciousness that is to become Present which was previously Future to it. If one and the same timeless being by its timeless activity of intellectual presentation gives to one constituent of its existence the Past character of a recollection, to another the significance of the Present, to a third unknown element that of the Future, it could never, if it is to be really timeless, change this distribution...
Page 97 - V. There cannot exist in the universe two or more substances having the same nature or attribute. Proof. If several distinct substances be granted, they must be distinguished one from the other, either by the difference of their attributes, or by the difference of their modifications (Prop.

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