The Consolations of Science: Or, Contributions from Science to the Hope of Immortality, and Kindred ThemesColegrove Book Company, 1884 - 435 strán (strany) |
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affection animal appear apprehending atoms attainment become believed Bicetre bioplasts bodily body brain brute catalepsy cause character Christian clairvoyance common consciousness continued death ditions doctrine elements embodiment epilepsy eral essential ether evidence existence extent external fact favorable fiber follow forces future Hence higher human ical illustration immortality important impression impulses individual influence instances intelligence intercourse interlying larvæ less living lower Lucretius luminiferous ether mankind material matter means measure ment mental mesmeric mind mineral mineralistic mode moral sense nature necessarily nerve object observation operator ordinary organism overmastering phenomena physical plant prescience present principle Prof properties protoplasm question realization reason referred relation render requisite respect result riety Robert Dale Owen seen sensuous sentient sentiment sleep somnambulism somnambulistic soul spect spiritual stances substance superior sympathy theory thought tion trephine uncon vegetable visible vital wholly
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Strana 209 - Either let us open our doors freely to the conception of creative acts, or abandoning them, let us radically change our notions of Matter.
Strana 55 - For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Strana 204 - We can trace the development of a nervous system, and correlate with it the parallel phenomena of sensation and thought. We see with undoubting certainty that they go hand in hand. But we try to soar in a vacuum the moment we seek to comprehend the connection between them.
Strana 210 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that " Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods "? or with Bruno, when he declares that Matter is not " that mere empty capacity which philosophers have pictured her to be, but the universal mother, who brings forth all things as the fruit of her own womb"?
Strana 345 - One day she was walking past a public institution, and observed a child, in whom she was particularly interested, coming out through an iron gate. She saw that he let go the gate after opening it, and that it seemed likely to close upon him, and concluded that it would do so with such force as to crush his ankle ; however, this did not happen.
Strana 259 - I thought, continued for five hours, and they were followed by an immense number of artillery wagons, full of bleeding corpses, whose limbs still quivered. A disgusting smell of blood and bitumen almost choked me. At length, the iron gate of the prison, shutting with great force, awoke me again. I made my repeater strike; it was no more than midnight, so that the horrible phantasmagoria had lasted no more than ten minutes; that is to say, the time necessary for relieving the sentry and shutting the...
Strana 345 - A lady, who was watching her little child at play, saw a heavy window-sash fall upon its hand, cutting off three of the fingers ; and she was so much overcome by fright and distress, as to be unable to render it any assistance. A surgeon was speedily obtained, who, having dressed the wounds, turned himself to the mother, whom he found seated, moaning, and complaining of pain in her hand.
Strana 216 - one substance, with two sets of properties, two sides, the physical and the mental— a double-faced unity.
Strana 176 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.
Strana 246 - This eminent person had been consulted respecting a case of great importance, and much difficulty ; and he had been studying it with intense anxiety and attention. After several days had been occupied in this manner, he was observed by his wife to rise from his bed in the night, and go to a writing-desk which stood in the bed-room. He then sat down, and wrote a long paper, which he put carefully by in the desk, and returned to bed.