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... interest in other employments , uncertain health , and some not , I think , uncalled for scrupulousness and anxiety as to what one writes on a subject so important , may throw in the way of it . But in the meantime , I have thought it ...
... interest in other employments , uncertain health , and some not , I think , uncalled for scrupulousness and anxiety as to what one writes on a subject so important , may throw in the way of it . But in the meantime , I have thought it ...
Page xv
... interest on account of the manner in which it seems to promise fruit , is the study of what we may call ' the facts of mind ' as we may see , observe , experiment , upon them in the universe , both in various human individuals with ...
... interest on account of the manner in which it seems to promise fruit , is the study of what we may call ' the facts of mind ' as we may see , observe , experiment , upon them in the universe , both in various human individuals with ...
Page xvii
... interest , without getting into a hopeless perplexity as to the application of them to our action . By these two lines of thought I mean , the one , the physio - psychology of which I have spoken : the other , the past history of the ...
... interest , without getting into a hopeless perplexity as to the application of them to our action . By these two lines of thought I mean , the one , the physio - psychology of which I have spoken : the other , the past history of the ...
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... interest in history of all kinds than I do : almost , perhaps too much . But the tendency of questions and subjects of all kinds at this time to run to history , if I may so express it , amounts , in many cases , to a blinking the great ...
... interest in history of all kinds than I do : almost , perhaps too much . But the tendency of questions and subjects of all kinds at this time to run to history , if I may so express it , amounts , in many cases , to a blinking the great ...
Page xix
... interest : but without the former , so far as we can attain to that , it is what can be but imperfectly entered into and what the mind will not rest in . It is the same in regard of man and his history : we ask what man is and what man ...
... interest : but without the former , so far as we can attain to that , it is what can be but imperfectly entered into and what the mind will not rest in . It is the same in regard of man and his history : we ask what man is and what man ...
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Page 228 - He knows that there is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature, if it be theory to infer more than we see. But other men unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that they see cubes and spheres, spacious apartments and winding avenues. And these things are facts to them, because they are unconscious of the mental operation by which they have penetrated nature's disguise.
Page 63 - Because existence is not cognizable, absolutely and in itself, but only in special modes ; 2°, Because these modes can be known only if they stand in a certain relation to our faculties ; and 3°, Because the modes thus relative to our faculties are presented to, and known by, the mind only under modifications determined by these faculties themselves.