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... light . For the best thing that I can hope , and the thing which I most wish , for any- thing which I may say , is that it may be improved upon the present generation seem to have more than one most bright field of speculation open ...
... light . For the best thing that I can hope , and the thing which I most wish , for any- thing which I may say , is that it may be improved upon the present generation seem to have more than one most bright field of speculation open ...
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... light , other persons are affected by it . This leads us to ' generalize sensation still more , and to conceive to ourselves an " abstraction that comprehends all our experience , past and present , and all the experience of others ...
... light , other persons are affected by it . This leads us to ' generalize sensation still more , and to conceive to ourselves an " abstraction that comprehends all our experience , past and present , and all the experience of others ...
Page xliii
... light , than by saying that the " light exists as independent fact , with or without any eyes to 66 " 6 66 66 see it . But if we consider the case fairly , we shall see that " this assertion errs not simply in being beyond any evidence ...
... light , than by saying that the " light exists as independent fact , with or without any eyes to 66 " 6 66 66 see it . But if we consider the case fairly , we shall see that " this assertion errs not simply in being beyond any evidence ...
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... light strikes it according to its own laws , changes , mechanical and chemical , take place in the eye , the optic nerve , and the brain , and a change perhaps takes place in the movements ( such as they were previously ) of the whole ...
... light strikes it according to its own laws , changes , mechanical and chemical , take place in the eye , the optic nerve , and the brain , and a change perhaps takes place in the movements ( such as they were previously ) of the whole ...
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... light , air as conveying sound , chemical qualities as producing those movements or changes in the nerves of our palate ( e.g. ) which are attended by the sensation of taste , and much besides : but I think I have said enough to suggest ...
... light , air as conveying sound , chemical qualities as producing those movements or changes in the nerves of our palate ( e.g. ) which are attended by the sensation of taste , and much besides : but I think I have said enough to suggest ...
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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.