 We are conscious automata, endowed [ with free will in the only intelligible sense of that muchabused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken...  Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley - 15 페이지저자: Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 339 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | 1886 - 400 페이지
...Huxley, in his Belfast lecture, spoke of man as nothing but " a part of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes...has been, and shall be — the sum of existence," I have no doubt that he expressed Mr. Herbert Spencer's conviction as well as his own. Now, what seems... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 페이지
...we have ourselves no voice whatever; since we are nothing but " parts of the great series of causes and effects, which, in unbroken continuity, composes...has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." Into such high philosophy I do not care to enter. It is like the " lunar politics " of Professor Huxley... | |
 | 1875 - 1036 페이지
...as our likings are not really, at bottom, of our own making), " parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes...has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." This is perfectly intelligible. We may admire or abhor the picture of ourselves which is thus presented... | |
 | Robert Watts - 1875 - 84 페이지
...sentiment, uttered by Professor Huxley in his address before the late meeting of the British Association, " Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."* Theologians are not afraid of the logical consequences of the doctrine of design upon their views of... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - 1877 - 130 페이지
...less parts of the same great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, comprises that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." — (Huxley, Fortnightly Review, p. 577, 1874.) I cannot say that I quite understand what is meant... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 페이지
...Man, being the product of mechanical force, can only represent a unit in ' the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes...and has been, and shall be, the sum of existence. ' \ In fine, he is a machine, an automaton, with no more real control over his actions than has the... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 512 페이지
...reach of our powers. If we become part, then everything becomes part of ' the great series of causes 'and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes...has been, and shall be — the sum of ' existence.' Therefore our contention that physical science, finding no evidence of volition or of consciousness... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 페이지
...many respects we are able to do as we ' like, but none the less parts of the great series of ' causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, ' composes...and has been, and shall be, 'the sum of existence.' The account given in these passages of the problem before us is beset with difficulties and inconsistencies,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1881 - 888 페이지
...philosophy, on the other hand, which represents Man as nothing but " a part of the great " series of causes and effects, •which, in unbroken continuity, " composes...has been, and shall be — the sum " of existence," " seems to me to be no less certainly towards the discouragement of all determinate effort, either... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 페이지
...philosophy, on the other hand, which represents Man as nothing but " a part of the great " series of causes and effects, which, in unbroken continuity, " composes...has been, and shall be — the sum " of existence," * seems to me to be no less certainly towards the discouragement of all determinate effort, either... | |
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