First Principles of a New System of PhilosophyD. Appleton, 1882 - 592 páginas |
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absolute abstract action aggregate animals arise assert become belief body carbonic acid cause centre centre of gravity changes chapter chemical common complete compound conceive conception conclusion consciousness constitute continue correlation definite differentiation diffused direction ditions doctrine Earth effects elements equally equilibration equilibrium Evolution existence external fact faint manifestations further gravity groups heat Herbert Spencer heterogeneous homogeneous hypothesis ideas illustration implies incident forces increase inference integration John Herschel kind lative laws of thought less limit mass ment mental modes modifications molecular motion movements moving multiform muscular nature nebular hypothesis object organic original persistence of force phenomena Philosophy plants position present principle Principles of Psychology produced progress quantity relations relative Religion rhythm Science secondary re-distributions separate similarly Sir William Hamilton social Solar System space species spheroid structure surface things thought tion transformation truth ultimate uniform units unlike vivid manifestations whole
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Página 121 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 92 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2.
Página 567 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation* * The definition of Evolution needs qualifying by introduction of the word "relatively" before each of its antithetical clauses.
Página 42 - ... Absolute and Infinite, from whatever side we view it, appears encompassed with contradictions. There is a contradiction in supposing such an object to exist, whether alone or in conjunction with others; and there is a contradiction in supposing it not to exist. There is a contradiction in conceiving it as one ; and there is a contradiction in conceiving it as many. There is a contradiction in conceiving it as personal; and there is a contradiction in conceiving it as impersonal. It cannot without...
Página 97 - We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon, though Omnipresence is unthinkable, yet, as experience discloses no bounds to the diffusion of phenomena, we are unable to think of limits to the presence of this Power, while the criticisms of Science teach us that this Power is incomprehensible. And this consciousness of an Incomprehensible Power, called Omnipresent from inability to assign its limits, is just that consciousness on which Religion...
Página 65 - So that the personality of which each is conscious, and of which the existence is to each a fact beyond all others the most certain, is yet a thing which cannot truly be known at all . knowledge of it is forbidden by the very nature of thought.
Página 567 - Evolution, then, under its primary aspect, is a change from a less coherent form to a more coherent form, consequent on the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Página 111 - Very likely there will ever remain a need to give shape to that indefinite sense of an Ultimate Existence, which forms the basis of our intelligence. We shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is — of representing it to ourselves in some form of thought, however vague. And we shall not err in doing this so long as we treat every notion we thus frame as merely a symbol, utterly without resemblance to that for which it...
Página 132 - It is the final product of that process which begins with a mere colligation of crude observations, goes on establishing propositions that are broader and more separated from particular cases, and ends in universal propositions. Or to bring the definition to its simplest and . clearest form : — Knowledge of the lowest kind is un-unified knowledge ; Science is partially -unified knowledge ; Philosophy is completely-unified knowledge.
Página 75 - To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized.