Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 53
... ideal to me so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses . The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory , as if its consequences were burlesque ; as if it affected the stability of nature . It surely does not . God ...
... ideal to me so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses . The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory , as if its consequences were burlesque ; as if it affected the stability of nature . It surely does not . God ...
Page 63
... ideal theory over the pop- ular faith is this , that it presents the world in pre- cisely that view which is most desirable to the mind . It is , in fact , the view which Reason , both speculative and practical , that is , philosophy ...
... ideal theory over the pop- ular faith is this , that it presents the world in pre- cisely that view which is most desirable to the mind . It is , in fact , the view which Reason , both speculative and practical , that is , philosophy ...
Page 66
... ideal theory answers . Idealism saith : matter is a phenomenon , not a substance . Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being . The one is perfect ; the ...
... ideal theory answers . Idealism saith : matter is a phenomenon , not a substance . Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being . The one is perfect ; the ...
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