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" For it connects thought with the other phenomena of the universe, and suggests inquiry into the nature of those physical conditions or concomitants of thought which are more or less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may in future help us to exercise... "
Scottish Metaphysics Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of ... - Page vii
by E. Edmond - 1887 - 244 pages
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 10; Volume 73

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, in future, help us to exercise the same kind of control over the world of thought as we already possess in respect of the material world ; whereas, the alternative, or spiritualistic terminology, is utterly barren, and leads to nothing...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 13; Volume 65

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...immaterial substances, enable us, before many years have rolled by, " to exercise the same kind of control over the world of thought, as we already possess in respect of the material world," to calculate the future course of the human race, or the actions of the individual will, with the same...
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On the Physical Basis of Life

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 pages
...accessible to to us, and a knowledge of which may, in future, help us to exercise the same kind of control over the world of thought as we already possess in respect of the material world ; whereas, the alternative, or spiritualistic, terminology is utterly barren, and leads to nothing...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 448 pages
...less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, in future, help us to exercise the same kind of control over the world of thought, as we already possess in respect of the material world ; whereas, the alternative, or spiritualistic, terminology is utterly barren, and leads to nothing...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 19

1870 - 892 pages
...less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, in future, help us to exercise the same kind of control over the world of thought as we already possess in respect of the material world." Undoubtedly if "thought is the result of the molecular forces," or, as he says again, " the expression...
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The Cell doctrine: its history and present state

James Tyson - 1870 - 180 pages
...less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, in future, help us to exercise the same kind of control over the world of thought as we already possess in respect to the material world; whereas, the alternative, or spiritualistic terminology is utterly barren, and...
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The Ingham Lectures: A Course of Lectures on the Evidences of Natural and ...

William George Williams - 1872 - 398 pages
...less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, in future, help us to exercise the same kind of control over the world of thought as we already possess in respect of the material world ; whereas, the alternative, or spiritualistic, terminology is utterly barren, and leads to nothing...
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Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 pages
...less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, in futuro, help us to exereise the same kind of control over the world of thought as we already possess in respect of the material world ; whereas, the alternative, or spiritualistic, terminology is utterly barren, and leads to nothing...
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Scottish Metaphysics: Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of ...

E. Edmond - 1887 - 274 pages
...FIRST PRINCIPLES' WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBUEGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXVII JAN 15 <H..3 PREFACE. OUR Scottish Metaphysics may with^ advantage be restated...intellectual acts under the process of thinking ; thought is to play the spy on itself whilst it thinks, whilst it grows gradually warmer until at last it is...
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Scottish Metaphysics: Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of ...

E. Edmond - 1887 - 268 pages
...Science, by " connecting thought with the other phenomena of the universe, and suggesting inqiiiry into the nature of those physical conditions or concomitants...intellectual acts under the process of thinking; thought is to play the spy on itself whilst it thinks, whilst it grows gradually warmer until at last it is...
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