Nature and Man: Essays Scientific and Philosophical

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Gregg International Publ., 1888 - Počet stran: 483
 

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Strana 415 - a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were " asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer " that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for "ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity "of this answer.
Strana 206 - Laws" were on the Statute book, but there was no Power to enforce them. And so the Powers of evil did their terrible work ; and fire and rapine continued to destroy life and property without check, until new Power came in, when the Reign of Law was restored. And thus we are led to the culminating point of Man's Intellectual Interpretation of Nature— his recognition of the Unity of the Power, of which her Phenomena are the diversified manifestations. Towards this point all Scientific inquiry now...
Strana 114 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Strana 216 - I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place : I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, — that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there.
Strana 312 - We are conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence.
Strana 169 - But if this ordinary upward course be anywhere interrupted, the impression will then exert its power in a transverse direction, and a reflex action will be the result ; the nature of this being dependent upon the part of the Cerebro-spinal axis at which the ascent had been checked. Thus if the interruption be produced by division or injury of the Spinal cord, so that its lower part is...
Strana 186 - I can bear it : the die is cast, the book is written ; to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which : it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Strana 192 - Human hands ; but does any unprejudiced person now doubt it? The evidence of design, to which, after an examination of one or two such specimens, we should only be justified in attaching a probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their' peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, although it cannot be directly...
Strana 207 - Nature, — his recognition of the Unity of the Power, of which, her Phenomena are the diversified manifestations. Towards this point all Scientific inquiry now tends. The Convertibility of the Physical Forces, the Correlation of these with the Vital, and the intimacy of that nexus between Mental and Bodily activity, which, explain it as we may, cannot be denied, all lead upward towards one and the same conclusion ; and the pyramid of which that Philosophical conclusion is the apex, has its foundation...
Strana 344 - Proc. Roy. Soc., 1876, p. 538. various kinds washed down by rivers, or floated out to sea from shores and sunken to the bottom when water-logged. The dead Pelagic animals must fall as a constant rain of food upon the habitation of their deep-sea dependants. Maury, speaking of the surface Foraminifera, wrote, " the sea, like the snow-cloud, with its flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of microscopic shells...

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