Physical Theory of Another LifeWilliam Pickering, 1836 - Počet stran: 321 |
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Strana 36 - For as in the individual the truth of the apostle's statement is discerned, "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual...
Strana 266 - ... that the visible universe, replete every where with various forms of animal life, is to fill one period only in the great history of the moral system, and that it is destined, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, to disappear, and to return to its nihility, giving place to new elements, and to new and higher expressions of omnipotence and intelligence.
Strana 281 - ... alone was freely developed ; if we realized the truth thus expressed by a powerful writer — " within the entire circle of our intellectual constitution, we value nothing but emotion ; it is not the powers, but the fruit of those powers, in so much feeling of a lofty kind as they will yield.
Strana 22 - Very plainly, a disembodied spirit, or we ought rather to say, an unembodied spirit, or sheer mind, is NOWHERE. Place is a relation of extension ; and extension is a property of matter: but that which is wholly abstracted from matter, and in speaking of which we deny that it has any property in common therewith, can in itself be subject to none of its conditions ; and we might as well say of a pure spirit that it is hard, heavy, or red, or that it is a cubic foot in^ dimensions, as say that it is...
Strana 16 - ... with every form of religious belief. It is so because, in affirming that mind is nothing more than the product of animal organization, it excludes the belief of a pure and uncreated mind — the cause of all things ; for if there be a supreme mind, absolutely independent of matter, then, unquestionably there may be created minds also independent of matter.
Strana 222 - That within the field occupied by the visible and ponderable universe, and on all sides of us, there is existing and moving another element, fraught with another species of life, corporeal, indeed, and various in its orders, but not open to the cognizance of those who are confined to the conditions of animal organization — not to be seen, not to be heard, not to be felt, by man.f We here," he continues, "assume the abstract probability that our five modes of perception are partial, not universal,...
Strana 259 - ... have done. Now, in considering this or any such extraordinary class of facts, our business is, in the first place, to obtain a number of instances, supported by the distinct and unimpeachable testimony of intelligent witnesses ; and then, being thus in possession of the facts, to adjust them, as well as we can, to other parts of our philosophy of human nature. Shall we allow...
Strana 23 - ... mind, but the very means of its quickening — its birth into the world of knowledge and action.
Strana 9 - THERE is A SPIRITUAL BODY." It is then BODY, and not mere spirit, to which the reasoning of the apostle relates. He is treating of the transition which human nature is destined to pass through, from one condition of corporeal existence to another ; and he speaks of the laying down a body that is gross, or at least infirm, perishable, and ignoble, and the taking up a body that shall be potent, illustrious, and permanent. For aught we know, there may be a pure immateriality, or an absolute separation...
Strana 21 - And first, without question, we must affirm that Body is the necessary means of bringing Mind into relationship with space and extension, and so, of giving it — PLACE.