English PsychologyD. Appleton, 1891 - 328 páginas |
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abstract activity ALEXANDER BAIN analysis animal Aristotle association of ideas Association psychology Auguste Comte Bain believe brain called cause character classification common complete Comte consciousness consequently considered consists constitute distinct doctrine Dugald Stewart effect elements emotions English Psychology ethology evolution excitement existence experience experimental explain exterior external facts faculties feeling follow fundamental Hartley Herbert Spencer human mind hypothesis Ibid imagination impression independent induction instinct intelligence James Mill John Stuart Mill knowledge language law of association Lewes logic mechanism memory mental metaphysics method Mill's moral motion movement muscles muscular nature nervous object observation organism pain perception phenomena physical physiology Plato pleasure positivism possible principles produced progress psychical question reasoning reflex action relations resemblance result SAMUEL BAILEY scientific sensations sense sentiments simple succession suppose theory things thought tion truth vibrations volition word
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Página 117 - Here, then, is a kind of pre-established harmony between the course of nature and the succession of our ideas; and though the powers and forces by which the former is governed be wholly unknown to us, yet our thoughts and conceptions have still, we find, gone on in the same train with the other works of nature.
Página 159 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Página 93 - To adopt a distinction familiar in the writings of the Scotch metaphysicians, and especially of Reid, the causes with which I concern myself are not efficient, but physical causes.
Página 113 - If. therefore, we speak of the mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future...
Página 328 - A work by a master in the science who understands the significance of every phenomenon which he records, and knows how to make it reveal its lessons.
Página 322 - ON SOUND : A Course of Eight Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Página 114 - ... present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact, without any theory of how it takes place ; and when we are obliged to speak of it in terms which assume a theory, to use them with a reservation as to their meaning.
Página 166 - A marked illustration of this truth is furnished by the passion which unites the sexes. This is habitually spoken of as though it were a simple feeling; whereas it is the most compound, and therefore the most powerful, of all the feelings. Added to the purely physical elements of it, are first to be noticed those highly complex impressions produced by personal beauty; around which are aggregated a variety of pleasurable ideas, not in themselves amatory, but which have an organized relation to the...
Página 325 - We commend the book cordially to the regard of all who are interested in whatever pertains to the discussion of these grave questions, and especially to those who desire to examine closely the strong foundations on which the Christian faith is reared.