Lessons from Nature: As Manifested in Mind and Matter, 25권;590권J. Murray, 1876 - 462페이지 |
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... become a passion - Specula- tive activity of our age - Our need of a starting - point which cannot be gainsaid - The study of mind an experimental science - The two dangers of popular discussions - Authority has no place in philosophy ...
... become a passion - Specula- tive activity of our age - Our need of a starting - point which cannot be gainsaid - The study of mind an experimental science - The two dangers of popular discussions - Authority has no place in philosophy ...
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... become a THE philosophic contemplation of nature be a passion of the age in which we live . the reason why , far to seek . Every physical science , when once its study is fairly begun , never fails nature has to excite much interest ...
... become a THE philosophic contemplation of nature be a passion of the age in which we live . the reason why , far to seek . Every physical science , when once its study is fairly begun , never fails nature has to excite much interest ...
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... become ( especially in this country ) a byword of reproach , are again avowedly pursued . A reaction has set in , and the importance of philosophy , indeed its absolute necessity as a basis for science , is made manifest by the most ...
... become ( especially in this country ) a byword of reproach , are again avowedly pursued . A reaction has set in , and the importance of philosophy , indeed its absolute necessity as a basis for science , is made manifest by the most ...
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... final results the processes of reason . As a consequence , in philoso- Doubt only to investiga- tion . when any man has become a victim to doubt , he has no rational choice , as he has no duty , but 4 [ CHAP . I. LESSONS FROM NATURE .
... final results the processes of reason . As a consequence , in philoso- Doubt only to investiga- tion . when any man has become a victim to doubt , he has no rational choice , as he has no duty , but 4 [ CHAP . I. LESSONS FROM NATURE .
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... becomes unmeaning - nay , logically impossible . Before dis- cussing any fundamental questions , the truth that discussion is , as a fact , possible should be clearly recognised , as also that there is such a thing as truth , and that ...
... becomes unmeaning - nay , logically impossible . Before dis- cussing any fundamental questions , the truth that discussion is , as a fact , possible should be clearly recognised , as also that there is such a thing as truth , and that ...
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absolute accept action activity admit affirm Agnostics amongst animals apes assert believe birds brutes Cardinal Noris cause certainty characters CHARLES DARWIN Chauncey Wright colour conceive conception condition consciousness consider Darwin declarations deny distinct doctrine doubt evidence evolution existence expression external fact faculties feelings female force Herbert Spencer homology homoplasy human hypothesis idea instinct intellectual intelligence John Stuart Mill judgment kind language less Lewes males man's manifest means mental mind mode moral natural selection necessarily necessary truth objective observes organism origin of species perception phenomena philosophy physical position possess present principle Professor Huxley proposition question races racters rational reason recognised relations religion remarks resemblance result savage says scepticism seems sensations sense sexual selection Sir John Lubbock Spencer structure Suarez supposed teaching tells Theism theory things thought tion tribes true truth Tylor universe validity words
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391 페이지 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
283 페이지 - ... fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore. I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.
177 페이지 - It is only our natural prejudice, and that arrogance which made our forefathers declare that they were descended from demi-gods, which leads us to demur to this conclusion.
297 페이지 - Dr. Hooker, in his address to the British Association, spoke thus of the author: "Of Mr. Wallace and his many contributions to philosophical biology it is not easy to speak without enthusiasm; for, putting aside their great merits, he, throughout his writings, with a modesty as rare as I believe it to be unconscious, forgets his own unquestioned claim to the honour of having originated independently of Mr. Darwin, the theories which he so ably defends.
89 페이지 - As monkeys certainly understand much that is said to them by man, and as in a state of nature they utter signal-cries of danger to their fellows,36 it does not appear altogether incredible, that some unusually wise ape-like animal should have thought of imitating the growl of a beast of prey, so as to indicate to his fellow monkeys the nature of the expected danger. And this would have been a first step in the formation of a language.
390 페이지 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
284 페이지 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
104 페이지 - ... that there exists a being in whom all the excellences which the highest human mind can conceive, exist in a degree inconceivable to us, I am informed that the world is ruled by a being whose attributes are infinite, but what they are we cannot learn, nor what are the principles of his government, except that the highest human morality which we are capable of conceiving does not sanction them; convince me of it and I will bear my fate as I may.
389 페이지 - ... the imperfections that cannot be remedied, the aspirations that cannot be realized, of man's own nature. But in this sadness, this consciousness of the limitation of man, this sense of an open secret which he cannot penetrate, lies the essence of all religion; and the attempt to embody it in the forms furnished by the intellect is the origin of the higher theologies.
390 페이지 - Nevertheless we call these, and many other strange phenomena, the properties of the water, and we do not hesitate to believe that, in some way or another, they result from the properties of the component elements of the water. We do not assume that a something called