On Mr. Spencer's Formula of Evolution as an Exhaustive Statement of the Changes of the UniverseTrübner & Company, 1879 - 267 páginas |
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absolute action admit aggregate amended formula argument atoms called capable cause changes chapter combinations compound Comtism conceive concomitant dissipation constitution corollaries correlative cosmos criticism differentiation dissipation of motion dissolution elements equilibrium ether Evolution philosophy existence explanation expression external fact factor formula of Evolution G. H. LEWES gravitation heterogeneity homogeneous idea implies indefinite indestructible inorganic inscrutable integration of matter know force knowable knowledge limits manifestations mass matter and motion means mechanical mental mind mind-stuff modes and rates modes of motion molecular nature nescience ness non-relative object organisable origin ourselves persistence of force phenomena position Problem of Philosophy Professor Green protein protoplasm question rates of motion reality recognise relations relative Relativity of Knowledge religion result sciousness sect sequences shape Sir William Hamilton Spencer says suppose terms of matter theism theory things thought tion ultimate units units of feeling universe unknowable word
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Página 110 - The formula finally stands thus :—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.
Página 97 - How this metamorphosis takes place — how a force existing as motion, heat, or light, can become a mode of consciousness — how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in tho brain to give rise to emotion — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.
Página 236 - The universe, then, consists entirely of mind-stuff. Some of this is woven into the complex form of human minds containing imperfect representations of the mind-stuff outside them, and of themselves also, as a mirror reflects its own image in another mirror, ad infinitum. Such an imperfect representation is called a material universe. It is a picture in a man's mind of the real universe of mind-stuff. The two chief points of this doctrine may be thus summed up :— Matter is a mental picture in which...
Página 117 - In other words, the phenomena of Evolution have to be deduced from the Persistence of Force. As before said — "to this an ultimate analysis brings us down; and on this a rational synthesis must build up.
Página 195 - We can think of Matter only in terms of Mind. We can think of Mind only in terms of Matter. When we have pushed our explorations of the first to the uttermost limit, we are referred to the second for a final answer ; and when we have got the final answer of the second we are referred back to the first for an interpretation of it.
Página 205 - ... since their likeness in kind would imply in the object a sensation of muscular tension, which cannot be ascribed to it, we are compelled to admit that force as it exists out of our consciousness, is not force as we know it. Hence the force of which we assert persistence is that Absolute Force of which we are indefinitely conscious as the necessary correlate of the force we know.
Página 163 - Besides that definite consciousness of which logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated ; besides complete thoughts, and thoughts which, though incomplete, admit of completion, there are thoughts which it is impossible to complete, and yet which are still real in the sense that they are normal affections of the intellect.
Página 185 - Eeligions diametrically opposed in their overt dogmas, are yet perfectly at one in the tacit conviction that the existence of the world with all it contains and all which surrounds it, is a mystery ever pressing for interpretation. On this point, if on no other, there is entire unanimity.
Página 112 - Force, behaves by itself, or under some imagined simple conditions ; nor is it even how one factor behaves under the complicated conditions of actual existence. The thing to be expressed is the joint product of the factors under all its various aspects. Only when we can formulate the total process, have we gained that knowledge of it which Philosophy aspires to.
Página 228 - That may or may not be the case, but even if we knew it to be the case, the knowledge would not lighten our darkness. On both sides of the zone here assigned to the materialist he is equally helpless. If you ask him whence is this "Matter...