| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1875 - 480 pages
...respect the conception of a volition beyond the domain of physics altogether. 2nd edition, p. 57 : " The whole process of evolution is the manifestation...a Power absolutely inscrutable to the intellect of man." The particular atom A, which should combine with the particular atom B, mast hare been strictly... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1877 - 642 pages
...experimental proof that life can be developed save from demonstrable antecedent life." Further on he adds, " In fact, the whole process of evolution is the manifestation...a Power absolutely inscrutable to the intellect of man." Darwin's tempting and beautiful theory of descent with modification bears a charm that appears... | |
| Glasgow sabbath school union - 1873 - 598 pages
...Having read that part of Professor Tyndall's address bearing on materialism, and where it is said that the whole process of evolution is the manifestation...a power absolutely inscrutable to the intellect of man, and that as little in our days as in those of Job, could man, by searching, find this Power out,... | |
| 1874 - 406 pages
...as unknowable! For example, it is assumed by Mr. Spencer that "our states of consciousness are mere symbols of an outside entity which produces them and...succession, but the real nature of which we can never know." That is, our states of consciousness are symbols, but symbols of such a kind that they give us no information... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - 562 pages
...that the world really is what consciousness represents it to be. Our states of consciousness are mere symbols of an outside entity which produces them and...succession, but the real nature of which we can never know. J In fact the whole process of evolution is the manifestation of a Power absolutely inscrutable to... | |
| 1874 - 806 pages
...that the world really is what consciousness represents it to be. Our states of consciousness are mere symbols of an outside entity which produces them and...succession, but the real nature of which we can never know.1 In fact, the whole process of evolution is the manifestation of a Power absolutely inscrutable... | |
| John Tyndall - 1874 - 132 pages
...that the world really is what consciousness represents it to be. Our states of consciousness are mere symbols of an outside entity which produces them and...succession, but the real nature of which we can never know.2 In fact, the whole process of evolution is the manifestation of a Power absolutely inscrutable... | |
| John Tyndall - 1874 - 138 pages
...that the world really is what consciousness represents it to be. Our states of consciousness are mere symbols of an outside entity which produces them and...succession, but the real nature of which we can never know.2 In fact, the whole process of evolution is the manifestation of a Power absolutely inscrutable... | |
| Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 350 pages
...that the world really is what consciousness represents it to be. Our states of consciousness are mere symbols of an outside entity which produces them and...order of their succession, but the real nature of * ' Examination of Hamilton,' p. 154. t ' Bestimmung dcs Menschcn.' which we can never know.* In fact... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - 562 pages
...that the world renlly is what consciousness represents it to be. Our states of consciousness are mfre symbols of an outside entity which produces them and...determines the order of their succession, but the real nn'ure of which we can never know.Ì In fact the who'e process of evolution is the manifestation of... | |
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