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... passing notice . Differences of opinion cannot impair the value of the truths to which they relate . Indeed , the most valuable truths often come to light amidst the conflict of opinions . But many of the dif- ferences now in question ...
... passing notice . Differences of opinion cannot impair the value of the truths to which they relate . Indeed , the most valuable truths often come to light amidst the conflict of opinions . But many of the dif- ferences now in question ...
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... passing events engross his attention . He accordingly goes through life ignorant of even the terms which define the powers and operations of his mind . When he hears or reads them , they convey to him no distinct meaning ; when he ...
... passing events engross his attention . He accordingly goes through life ignorant of even the terms which define the powers and operations of his mind . When he hears or reads them , they convey to him no distinct meaning ; when he ...
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... passes from under their sover- eignty , and becomes subject to the dominion of a higher power , which we call Life . Life is not itself an intelligent being , nor is it of itself intelligent ; for the vegetable has life , without ...
... passes from under their sover- eignty , and becomes subject to the dominion of a higher power , which we call Life . Life is not itself an intelligent being , nor is it of itself intelligent ; for the vegetable has life , without ...
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... passing from the lower to the higher , without bind- ing them together by some common bonds . Hence , the vegetable is by various ties united to the animal , and the animal to the rational ; but we must not infer that , there- fore ...
... passing from the lower to the higher , without bind- ing them together by some common bonds . Hence , the vegetable is by various ties united to the animal , and the animal to the rational ; but we must not infer that , there- fore ...
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... passing from the lower to the higher , without bind- ing them together by some common bonds . Hence , the vegetable is by various ties united to the animal , and the animal to the rational ; but we must not infer that , there- fore ...
... passing from the lower to the higher , without bind- ing them together by some common bonds . Hence , the vegetable is by various ties united to the animal , and the animal to the rational ; but we must not infer that , there- fore ...
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Strona 34 - Secondly, the other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got, which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...
Strona 281 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth); How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Strona 34 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Strona 35 - By Reflection, then, in the following part of this Discourse, I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be Ideas of these operations in the Understanding. These two, I say, namely, external material things, as the objects of Sensation, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of Reflection, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginning.
Strona 244 - I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Strona 35 - SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings. The term operations here I use in a large sense, as comprehending not barely the actions of the mind about its ideas, but some sort of passions arising sometimes from them, such as is the satisfaction or uneasiness arising from any thought.
Strona 123 - For since consciousness always accompanies thinking, and it is that which makes every one to be what he calls self, and thereby distinguishes himself from all other thinking things; in this alone consists personal identity, ie the sameness of a rational being r and as far as this consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action or thought, so far reaches the identity of that person...
Strona 218 - The faculty which God has given man to supply the want of clear and certain knowledge, in cases where that cannot be had, is judgment : whereby the mind takes its ideas to agree or disagree ; or which is the same, any proposition to be true or false, without perceiving a demonstrative evidence. in the proofs.
Strona 31 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Strona 171 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. " What