...contradiction. We understand union in the sense of local connexion ; here is a union where local connexion is irrelevant, unsuitable, contradictory, for we cannot...extinction of the other. The only mode of union that is not 376 377 contradictory is the union of close succession in time ; or of position in a continued thread...

...alive to feeling ana thought, the extreme remove from all that is material ; a condition of tränet wherein, while it lasts, the material drops out of...extinction of the other. The only mode of union that is not 376 377 contradictory is the union of close succession in time ; or of position in a continued thread...

...state of tin extended cognition. By various theologians, heaven has been spoken of as not a plaee, but a state; and this is the only phrase that I can...contradictory is the union of close succession in time y or of position in a continued thread of conscious life. We are entitled to say that the same being...

...endeavors, but in vain, to show that this is not union in place ; and then says (Jfo'<£., p. 137), that " the only mode of union that is not contradictory is the union of close succession in time." Such succession is not union in any sense that can justify the assertion that there is but one substance...

...our passing into a state where there is no extension. A human being is an extended and material mass, attached to which is the power of becoming alive to...only mode of union that is not contradictory is the uuion of close succession in time; or of position in a continued thread of conscious life. We are entitled...

...succession, yet it is often tltus used, as. if it were an entity containing other entities.) Or again— " The only mode of union that is not contradictory is the union of ... position in a continued thread of conscious life." That is to say, the only mode of union between...

...brain, we must be held us speaking under an important reserve or qualification. Asserting the uniim in the strongest manner, we must yet deprive it of...or of position in a continued thread of conscious hfe. We are entitled to say that the same being is, by alternate Ills, object and subject, under extended...

...that is material; a condition of trance wherein, while it lasts, the material drops out of view—so much so, that we have not the power to represent the...entitled to say that the same being is, by alternate tits, object and subject, under extended and under unextended consciousness ; and that without the...

...out of view — so much so, that we have no't the power to represent the two extremes [mind and body] as lying side by side, as container and contained,...momentary eclipse or extinction of the other." The words in brackets are mine. That a man like Mr. Bain should find it to be a work of such transcendent...