The Soul: A Study and an ArgumentMacmillan and Company, limited, 1903 - 234 páginas |
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... theory of reflex action- On organic modifications - The phenomena of unconscious mental action . Is there a soul ? Is there any purpose or design in nature ? Is there any after life ? These questions are simple in statement but not in ...
... theory of reflex action- On organic modifications - The phenomena of unconscious mental action . Is there a soul ? Is there any purpose or design in nature ? Is there any after life ? These questions are simple in statement but not in ...
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... theories on this subject are— ( 1 ) that mind is a function of the nervous system , especially of the brain , or more specifi- cally of the cerebral hemispheres ; ( 2 ) that it is a metaphysical entity , an undefined and sup ...
... theories on this subject are— ( 1 ) that mind is a function of the nervous system , especially of the brain , or more specifi- cally of the cerebral hemispheres ; ( 2 ) that it is a metaphysical entity , an undefined and sup ...
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... theory , which represents mind , not as an abstraction , nor as a negation or property , but as a substance ; as that something which feels , thinks and wills- the thinking substance , subject or agent ; The Mind , in fact , as ...
... theory , which represents mind , not as an abstraction , nor as a negation or property , but as a substance ; as that something which feels , thinks and wills- the thinking substance , subject or agent ; The Mind , in fact , as ...
Página xviii
... nerve force is modified , deflected , reflected or inhibited . How is the presence of these nerve cells to be accounted for on the theory that all sensation is in the brain ? Not only would these nerve cells xviii INTRODUCTION.
... nerve force is modified , deflected , reflected or inhibited . How is the presence of these nerve cells to be accounted for on the theory that all sensation is in the brain ? Not only would these nerve cells xviii INTRODUCTION.
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... theory under consideration altogether ignores the principle of division of labour which almost everywhere prevails in organic life . Only in the very lowest forms of life ( the unicellular ) do we find the whole organism employed in ...
... theory under consideration altogether ignores the principle of division of labour which almost everywhere prevails in organic life . Only in the very lowest forms of life ( the unicellular ) do we find the whole organism employed in ...
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Página 231 - It is more conformable to the ordinary wisdom of nature to secure so necessary an act of the mind, by some instinct or mechanical tendency, which may be infallible in its operations...
Página 186 - Here, so far as I can judge from the immense mass of accessible evidence, we have to admit that the belief in spiritual beings appears among all low races / with whom we have attained to thoroughly intimate acquaintance...
Página 155 - If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.
Página 119 - It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Página 196 - The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived : I could not be said to recollect them ; for if I had been told of them when waking, I should not have been able to acknowledge them as parts of my past experience. But placed as they were before me, in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I recognised them instantaneously.
Página 85 - ... still a change in the region of the extended. The only adequate expression is a CHANGE OF STATE : a change from the state of the extended cognition to a state of unextended cognition. By various theologians, heaven has been spoken of as not a place, but a state ; and this is the only phrase that I can find suitable to describe the vast, though familiar and easy, transition from the material or extended, to the 'immaterial or unextended side of our being.
Página 231 - As nature has taught us the use of our limbs, without giving us the knowledge of the muscles and nerves, by which they are actuated; so has she implanted in us an instinct, which carries forward the thought in a correspondent course to that which she has established among external objects; though we are ignorant of those powers and forces, on which this regular course and succession of objects totally depends.
Página 213 - I cannot compare the soul more properly to any thing than to a republic or commonwealth in which the several members are united by the reciprocal ties of government and subordination, and give rise to other persons, who propagate the same republic in the incessant changes of its parts.
Página 118 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
Página 3 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.