...Nature in the abstract is the aggregate of the powers and properties of all things. Nature means the snm of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce...a part of the idea of Nature, as those which take effect. Since all phenomena which have been sufficiently examined are found to take place with regularity,...

...on " Nature," he says : " The nature of a thing means its entire capacity of exhibiting phenomena. Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them." Thus, in common with all phenomenalists, he fully recognizes both the principle and the terminology...

...on " Nature," he says : " The nature of a thing means its entire capacity of exhibiting phenomena. Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them." Thus, in common with all phenomenalists, he fully recognizes both the principle and the terminology...

...Illustrations of t/te Influence of the Mind upon the Body. By DANIEL HACK TUKE, MD, MRCP Philadelphia. 1873. " Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with...much a part of the idea of nature as those which take effect. —John Stuart Milt. BARRING causes, material and fundamental, the providence which shapes...

...it has two important meanings. In its large and philosophical sense it means, as Mr. Mill says : " The sum of all phenomena, together with the causes...capable of happening — the unused capabilities of matter being as much a part of the idea of Nature as those which take effect." But the word Nature...

...properties, so Nature in the abstract is the aggregate of the powers and properties of all things. Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with...causes which produce them ; including not only all 65 that happens, but all that is capable of happening ; the unused capabilities of causes being as...

...shows how widely the 19th century is removed from the opinions of the 18th. " Nature " (he tells us) " means the sum of all phenomena together with the causes...that happens but all that is capable of happening " (p. 5). In this sense, it includes Art, for "Art 1 Jas. Mill is said by his son to have been the...

...shows how widely the 1 9th century is removed from the opinions of the 18th. " Nature " (he tells us) " means the sum of all phenomena together with the causes...that happens but all that is capable of happening " (p. 5). In this sense, it includes Art, for "Art 1 Jas. Mill is said by his son to have been the...

...proceeding from differing schools of thought. According to Stuart Mill, in one of his posthumous essays, " Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them." Understanding there what we call secondary causes, Mill's definition is not more sweeping than Martineau's,...

...feeling and change of feeling, or objectively, as agent and action " ; and Mill defined " nature " as " the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes...that happens, but all that is capable of happening". It is not certain that the Theist expresses any very clear idea to himself when he uses the words "matter"...