The Springs of Conduct: An Essay on EvolutionKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 317 páginas |
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abstract ideas accompanied Afferent nerves animals answer become believe body brain carbonic acid central nervous system centre cerebellum cerebral hemispheres character cognitions colour complex conception conduct connected consciousness definite developed doctrine earth efficiency elements emotions engine evolution existence experience external fact feeling force fore-brain free-will G. H. Lewes give rise happiness Herbert Spencer hind-brain human hypothesis impressions of sensation individual influence instinctive knowledge laws of science less matter and motion means medulla oblongata mind moral muscular natural selection Nature neighbour nerve nerve-cells nerve-centres nerve-fibres nervous system nescience object organism oxygen perception phenomena philosophy physical plant possible practical prevision qualities question race reality realm reflex actions regard relations rhythm scientific sense of choice social space spinal cord spring test of truth thalamus theory things thought tion ultimate vibrations word
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Página 39 - The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of fire, or snow, are really in them, whether any one's senses perceive them or no ; and, therefore, they may be called real qualities, because they really exist in those bodies. But light, heat, whiteness, or coldness, are no more really in them, than sickness or pain is in manna. Take away the sensation of them ; let not the eyes see light or colours, nor the ears hear sounds ; let the palate not taste, nor the nose smell ; and all coilours,...
Página 216 - The motion of our body follows upon the command of our will. Of this we are every moment conscious. But the means, by which this is effected ; the energy, by which the will performs so extraordinary an operation ; of this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that it must for ever escape our most diligent enquiry.
Página 132 - This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
Página 1 - I shall inquire into the original of those ideas, notions, or whatever else you please to call them, which a man observes, and is conscious to himself he has in his mind, and the ways whereby the understanding comes to be furnished with them.
Página 213 - By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.
Página 85 - Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where a man might be freed from an evil deed.
Página 161 - We thus comprehend, not only that the human mind is united to the body, but also the nature of the union between mind and body. However no one will be able to grasp this adequately or distinctly, unless he first has adequate knowledge of the nature of our body.
Página 44 - The only method of freeing learning, at once, from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacity, that it is by no means fitted for such remote and abstruse subjects.
Página 223 - It will be found excellent practice in the mental operations required by this doctrine to imagine a train, the fore part of which is an engine and three carriages linked with iron couplings, and the hind part three other carriages linked with iron couplings ; the bond between the two parts being made up out of the sentiments of amity subsisting between the stoker and the guard...
Página 109 - The reconciliation of physics and metaphysics lies in the acknowledgment of faults upon both sides; in the confession by physics that all the phenomena of nature are, in their ultimate analysis, known to us only as facts of consciousness...
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