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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The Consolations of Science: Or, Contributions from Science to the Hope of ... Jacob Straub Úplné zobrazenie - 1888 |
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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 observed 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 theory thought tion trephine uncon universe vegetable visible vital wholly
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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 255 - ... death, the girl herself refused to stay. Anxious inquiries were then, of course, made concerning the pastor's habits; and the solution of the phenomenon was soon obtained. For it appeared, that it had been the old man's custom, for years, to walk up and down a passage of his house into which the kitchen door opened, and to read to himself with a loud voice, out of his favorite books.
Strana 201 - 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 254 - A young woman of four or five and twenty, who could neither read nor write, was seized with a nervous fever ; during which, according to the asseverations of all the priests and monks of the neighborhood, she became possessed, and, as it appeared, by a very learned devil. She continued incessantly talking Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, in very pompous tones, and with most distinct enunciation.
Strana 196 - 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 202 - 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 337 - 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 337 - 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 208 - The arguments for the two substances have, we believe, now entirely lost their validity ; they are no longer compatible with ascertained science and clear thinking. The one substance, with two sets of properties, two sides, the physical and the mental — a doublefaced unity — would appear to comply with all the exigencies of the case.
Strana 169 - An anthropomorphous ape, if he could take a dispassionate view of his own case, would admit that though he could form an artful plan to plunder a garden — though he could use stones for fighting or for breaking open nuts, yet that the thought of fashioning a stone into a tool was quite beyond his scope. Still less, as he would admit, could he follow out a train of metaphysical reasoning, or solve a mathematical problem, or reflect on God, or admire a grand natural scene.