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" We are conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... "
The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science Examined - Page 10
by Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 460 pages
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Christian Reformer, Volume 1

1886 - 400 pages
...material changes. When Professor Huxley, in his Belfast lecture, spoke of man as nothing but " a part of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence," I have no doubt that he expressed...
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The Living Age, Volume 124

1875 - 844 pages
...much-abused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence. As to the logical consequences...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 25

1875 - 1012 pages
...the prosecution of this aim we have ourselves no voice whatever; since we are nothing but " parts of the great series of causes and effects, which, in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." Into such high philosophy I do...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 26

1875 - 1036 pages
...but, nevertheless" (inasmuch as our likings are not really, at bottom, of our own making), " parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." This is perfectly intelligible....
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 28; Volume 91

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 pages
...mechanical forces or energies. Man, being the product of mechanical force, can only represent a unit in ' the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and has been, and shall be, the sum of existence. ' \ In fine, he is a machine, an automaton,...
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The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science Examined

Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 pages
...much-abused term, in' asmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we ' like, but none the less parts of the great series of ' causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, ' composes that which is, and has been, and shall be, 'the sum of existence.' The account given in these passages...
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Lectures on the Psychology of Thought and Action: Comparative and Human

William Dexter Wilson - 1880 - 412 pages
...term, inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like, " but are, none the less, parts of the great series of causes and " effects which in unbroken continuity composes that which is, " has been, and shall be, the sum of existence." That is it, precisely : we can do in...
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Principles of Mental Physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and ...

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1881 - 890 pages
...tendency of the Automatist philosophy, on the other hand, which represents Man as nothing but " a part of the great " series of causes and effects, •which, in unbroken continuity, " composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum " of existence," " seems to me to be no less...
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Science and Culture, and Other Essays, Volume 32; Volume 964

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1881 - 372 pages
...much-abused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence. As to the logical consequences...
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Principles of mental physiology with their applications to the training and ...

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 pages
...tendency of the Automatist philosophy, on the other hand, which represents Man as nothing but " a part of the great " series of causes and effects, which, in unbroken continuity, " composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum " of existence," * seems to me to be no less...
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