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Page xxviii
... look at human mental activity , at the ' how we know ' , as well as at the fact that there are things which we know and that we know them , is as destructive of any philosophy or true logic of advancing thought as the other is of ...
... look at human mental activity , at the ' how we know ' , as well as at the fact that there are things which we know and that we know them , is as destructive of any philosophy or true logic of advancing thought as the other is of ...
Page xxxii
... look at nature , and the sincerity of their investigation of it , being vitiated by the suspicion and fear that they will be brought to conclusions inconsistent with all this , and which will force them to renounce their best birthright ...
... look at nature , and the sincerity of their investigation of it , being vitiated by the suspicion and fear that they will be brought to conclusions inconsistent with all this , and which will force them to renounce their best birthright ...
Page xxxviii
... look upon philosophy not simply as a branch of literature and science , but in its practical character , as intimately connected with human action and the direction of that , and since religion takes that province also , I do not think ...
... look upon philosophy not simply as a branch of literature and science , but in its practical character , as intimately connected with human action and the direction of that , and since religion takes that province also , I do not think ...
Page xl
... look to in- stead . I have but to say on this , let us believe in ourselves , which in this application is not the revolting against , but the believing in God , whose Providence has made men to advance as he has . If we wish , as men ...
... look to in- stead . I have but to say on this , let us believe in ourselves , which in this application is not the revolting against , but the believing in God , whose Providence has made men to advance as he has . If we wish , as men ...
Page xlvi
... look upon a good many younger than myself , which is made up I think of diffidence , fastidiousness , and an indisposition to follow thought out , and which there seems something in our literary atmosphere strangely , in respect of ...
... look upon a good many younger than myself , which is made up I think of diffidence , fastidiousness , and an indisposition to follow thought out , and which there seems something in our literary atmosphere strangely , in respect of ...
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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.