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... sides ; that its philosophy will not satisfy philosophers , nor its physiology physiologists ; and that it will have to divide itself , for utility and productiveness , into two lines of thought , very different , rarely likely to be ...
... sides ; that its philosophy will not satisfy philosophers , nor its physiology physiologists ; and that it will have to divide itself , for utility and productiveness , into two lines of thought , very different , rarely likely to be ...
Page xiii
... side afraid of logical suppositions and abstractions , nor on the other hand disposed to rest in them as if the right dealing with them was the knowledge , and they all the furniture our mind needed : and with all these a good history ...
... side afraid of logical suppositions and abstractions , nor on the other hand disposed to rest in them as if the right dealing with them was the knowledge , and they all the furniture our mind needed : and with all these a good history ...
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... side , is concerned with that which we must know and have settled for ourselves before we can , with reason , apply our knowledge of experience to action : namely , what we want : what we mean to do with ourselves , what ends we wish to ...
... side , is concerned with that which we must know and have settled for ourselves before we can , with reason , apply our knowledge of experience to action : namely , what we want : what we mean to do with ourselves , what ends we wish to ...
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... side , of beings with liberty , enterprize , aspiringness , and desire to do the best and the right and to elevate their nature , and , on the other , such a pro- gressive developement as we may conceive to take place in any kind of ...
... side , of beings with liberty , enterprize , aspiringness , and desire to do the best and the right and to elevate their nature , and , on the other , such a pro- gressive developement as we may conceive to take place in any kind of ...
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... side , and phy- siology and physical science on the other , are very different things and may perhaps require different minds for the developement of them , yet they are not hostile to each other , and in reality the better and purer ...
... side , and phy- siology and physical science on the other , are very different things and may perhaps require different minds for the developement of them , yet they are not hostile to each other , and in reality the better and purer ...
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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.