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Page xi
... organization , and the question of the distribution of mind more or less like ours through various organizations , are the two questions of physics far the most interesting : but they are physics after all . Whatever may be found out ...
... organization , and the question of the distribution of mind more or less like ours through various organizations , are the two questions of physics far the most interesting : but they are physics after all . Whatever may be found out ...
Page xv
... organizations indi- vidually different , and in various animals ( so far as we can thus study them ) with such organizations dif fering generically . Facts of mind of this character are facts of the universe , and may legitimately be co ...
... organizations indi- vidually different , and in various animals ( so far as we can thus study them ) with such organizations dif fering generically . Facts of mind of this character are facts of the universe , and may legitimately be co ...
Page xvi
... organizations following various laws , is something different from mind as we feel it , or ourselves , thinking and choosing what we will do : and the generic mind in such organizations , with its future , so to speak , marked out for ...
... organizations following various laws , is something different from mind as we feel it , or ourselves , thinking and choosing what we will do : and the generic mind in such organizations , with its future , so to speak , marked out for ...
Page xxxix
... organization , and because elevation of our moral selves and of our race is a chimera , and man is simply a dreamy and imagina- tive animal , and a grown man of sense will quit such imaginations , and if I may so express it , let ...
... organization , and because elevation of our moral selves and of our race is a chimera , and man is simply a dreamy and imagina- tive animal , and a grown man of sense will quit such imaginations , and if I may so express it , let ...
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... organized in such a manner that according to the nature of the communication there shall accompany or follow it , in the supposed self , or what we call the mind , this or that feeling of pleasure or pain , or this or that felt exertion ...
... organized in such a manner that according to the nature of the communication there shall accompany or follow it , in the supposed self , or what we call the mind , this or that feeling of pleasure or pain , or this or that felt exertion ...
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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.