Freedom of the Mind in HistoryMacmillan, 1923 - 297 strán (strany) |
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... present social and political situation , and carry prophecies touching the prospects of mankind . The historical material is complex and voluminous . Its mass would tax encyclopaedias . Its diversity , its mottled hue , its dissidence ...
... present social and political situation , and carry prophecies touching the prospects of mankind . The historical material is complex and voluminous . Its mass would tax encyclopaedias . Its diversity , its mottled hue , its dissidence ...
Strana 3
... present state . Man is treated as part and parcel of this moving web . Science has drawn our gaze into novel vistas ; it has expanded to the infinite our thoughts of the labyrinthine universe of matter , energy THE PLASTIC ENVIRONMENT 3 ...
... present state . Man is treated as part and parcel of this moving web . Science has drawn our gaze into novel vistas ; it has expanded to the infinite our thoughts of the labyrinthine universe of matter , energy THE PLASTIC ENVIRONMENT 3 ...
Strana 4
... present state through natural or physical law . Such law means order and regularity of sequence , continuity indeed , as , for example , in the successive stages through which plants and animals have attained the forms which prevail at ...
... present state through natural or physical law . Such law means order and regularity of sequence , continuity indeed , as , for example , in the successive stages through which plants and animals have attained the forms which prevail at ...
Strana 13
... present , and the stored adaptations of the race live on from generation to generation , waking up into response when the appropriate stimulus comes , just as conscious memory is awakened " ( J. S. Haldane , o.c. p . 98 ) . to others ...
... present , and the stored adaptations of the race live on from generation to generation , waking up into response when the appropriate stimulus comes , just as conscious memory is awakened " ( J. S. Haldane , o.c. p . 98 ) . to others ...
Strana 17
... present to every phase of energy and life , mechanical , chemical , biological , physiological , and psychological . This being so , we are impelled to find subtly creative action within these processes of growth and evolution . Since ...
... present to every phase of energy and life , mechanical , chemical , biological , physiological , and psychological . This being so , we are impelled to find subtly creative action within these processes of growth and evolution . Since ...
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accelerated accepted action advance animals appear argument Aristotle Athenian attainment beauty become bodies century Christ Christian Cleisthenes conceived conception conduct Confucius consciousness conviction Descartes divine earth Einstein endeavour energy environment evolution experience factors facts faculties faith freedom function genius Gospel gravitation Greek Greek philosophy Heaven Henri Poincaré human mind hypotheses ideas imagination impulse individual inquiry instincts intellectual intelligence investigation Jehovah's judgement Kant knowledge living logic man's mankind Mark Barr mathematical matter mechanics mediaeval ment mental metaphysics method modern monasticism motion moving natural law Newton Nicholas of Cusa objects observation Odysseus organism perception perhaps phenomena philosophy Plato political praetor present principle principle of relativity progress rational reality reason relations relativity religion religious righteousness Roman Roman law scholasticism scientific seeks sense sense-awareness social soul space spiritual Stoicism things thinking thought tion true truth Twelve Tables universe velocity whole
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Strana 124 - And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given unto them ; that they may be one, even as We are one ; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected into one ; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and lovcdst them, even as Thou luvedst Me.
Strana 89 - While there are no stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow, or joy, the mind may be said to be in the state of EQUILIBRIUM. When those feelings have been stirred, and they act in their due degree, there ensues what may be called the state of Harmony.
Strana 169 - A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being: as it perceives ideas, it is called the understanding, and as it produces or otherwise operates about them, it is called the will.
Strana 171 - As to those impressions, which arise from the senses, their ultimate cause is, in my opinion, perfectly inexplicable by human reason, and 'twill always be impossible to decide with certainty, whether they arise immediately from the object, or are produc'd by the creative power of the mind, or are deriv'd from the author of our being.
Strana 90 - At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. "At thirty, I stood firm. "At forty, I had no doubts. "At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. "At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. "At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without transgressing what was right.
Strana 124 - And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
Strana 207 - ... we may picture to our mind a motion as uniformly and continuously accelerated when, during any equal intervals of time whatever, equal increments of speed are given to it.
Strana 247 - But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, what is common to many thinking beings, and could be common to all ; this common part, we shall see, can only be the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.
Strana 167 - And the manner wherein they signify, and mark unto us the objects which are at a distance, is the same with that of languages and signs of human appointment, which do not suggest the things signified, by any likeness or identity of nature, but only by an habitual connexion, that experience has made us to observe between them.
Strana 164 - SINCE the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate ; it is evident, that our knowledge is only conversant about them.