First Principles of a New System of PhilosophyD. Appleton, 1870 - 559 |
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... fact that the component parts of the theory had been wrongly put together . Even in the absence of a more special reason , I had decided that , on the completion of the Principles of Biology , it would proper to suspend for a few months ...
... fact that the component parts of the theory had been wrongly put together . Even in the absence of a more special reason , I had decided that , on the completion of the Principles of Biology , it would proper to suspend for a few months ...
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... fact disclosed by a survey of the past , that majorities have usually been wrong , must not blind us to the comple- mentary fact , that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong . And the avoidance of these extremes being a pre ...
... fact disclosed by a survey of the past , that majorities have usually been wrong , must not blind us to the comple- mentary fact , that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong . And the avoidance of these extremes being a pre ...
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... fact . Directly or by implication , each of them insists on a certain subordination of individual actions to social requirements . There are wide differences as to the power to which this subordination is due ; there are wide ...
... fact . Directly or by implication , each of them insists on a certain subordination of individual actions to social requirements . There are wide differences as to the power to which this subordination is due ; there are wide ...
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... fact . Judging by analogy the implication is , not that any one of them is altogether right ; but that in each there is something right more or less disguised by other things wrong . It may be that the soul of truth contained in ...
... fact . Judging by analogy the implication is , not that any one of them is altogether right ; but that in each there is something right more or less disguised by other things wrong . It may be that the soul of truth contained in ...
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... fact of like implication . We may be sure therefore that religions , though even none of them be actually true , are yet all adumbrations of a truth . 5. As , to the religious , it will scem absurd to set forth any justification for ...
... fact of like implication . We may be sure therefore that religions , though even none of them be actually true , are yet all adumbrations of a truth . 5. As , to the religious , it will scem absurd to set forth any justification for ...
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Strona 396 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Strona 75 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the Conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought, — thought necessarily supposes condition. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.
Strona 170 - Force, as we know it, can be regarded only as a certain conditioned effect of the Unconditioned Cause — as the relative reality indicating to us an Absolute Reality by which it is immediately produced.
Strona 87 - Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated. Besides complete thoughts, and besides the thoughts which though incomplete admit of completion, there are thoughts which it is impossible to complete; and yet which are still real, in the sense that they are normal affections of the intellect.
Strona 39 - ... from this apparent contradiction by introducing the idea of succession in time. The absolute exists first by itself, and afterwards becomes a cause. But here we are checked by the third conception, that of the infinite. How can the infinite become that which it was not from the first? If causation is a possible mode of existence, that which exists without causing is not infinite; that which becomes a cause has passed beyond its former limits.
Strona 398 - And it has to bo shown that this universality of process, results from the same necessity which determines each simplest movement around us, down to the accelerated fall of a stone or the recurrent beat of a harp-string. In other words, the phenomena of Evolution have to be deduced from the Persistence of Force. As before said— '' to this an ultimate analysis brings us down; and on this a rational synthesis must build up.
Strona 545 - Cosmos; we see at once that there are not several kinds of Evolution having certain traits in common, but one Evolution going on everywhere after the same manner.
Strona 20 - And if both have bases in the reality of things, then between them there must be a fundamental harmony.
Strona 3 - WE too often forget that not only is there " a soul of goodness in things evil," but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
Strona 113 - By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable.