 | 1886 - 400 str.
...material changes. When Professor Huxley, in his Belfast lecture, spoke of man as nothing but " a part 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," I have no doubt that he expressed... | |
 | 1875 - 844 str.
...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. As to the logical consequences... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 str.
...the prosecution of this aim we have ourselves no voice whatever; since we are nothing but " 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." Into such high philosophy I do... | |
 | 1875 - 1036 str.
...but, nevertheless" (inasmuch as our likings are not really, at bottom, of our own making), " 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." This is perfectly intelligible.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 str.
...mechanical forces or energies. Man, being the product of mechanical force, can only represent a unit in ' 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. ' \ In fine, he is a machine, an automaton,... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 str.
...much-abused term, in' asmuch 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.' The account given in these passages... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - 1880 - 412 str.
...term, inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like, " but are, none the less, parts of the great series of causes and " effects which in unbroken continuity composes that which is, " has been, and shall be, the sum of existence." That is it, precisely : we can do in... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1881 - 888 str.
...tendency of the Automatist philosophy, on the other hand, which represents Man as nothing but " a part 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," " seems to me to be no less... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1881 - 372 str.
...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. As to the logical consequences... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 str.
...tendency of the Automatist philosophy, on the other hand, which represents Man as nothing but " a part 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," * seems to me to be no less... | |
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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... 
