A Year of Life, the Price of the Bishop, and Other Poems

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Longmans, Green, 1883 - 251 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 191 - To assert that these fundamentally antagonistic qualities of matter and mind not only inhere, but co-inhere, in one and the same substratum, is to assert that a thing can be and not be at the same time and in the same sense.
الصفحة 190 - That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
الصفحة 190 - ... contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe are the consequences, and the more completely is he thereby at the mercy of the teleologist, who can always defy him to disprove that this primordial molecular arrangement was not intended to evolve the phenomena of the universe.
الصفحة 190 - Extension is but the first of a long series of properties all present in matter, all absent in mind.
الصفحة 190 - I am at that moment (except by very rapid transitions or alternations) unable to conceive a truly mental fact, my truly mental consciousness. Our mental experience, our feelings and thoughts, have no extension, no place, no form or outline, no mechanical division of parts ; and we are incapable of attending to any thing mental until we shut off the view of all that.
الصفحة 188 - A deep abyss separates the inorganic from the organic, the inanimate from the animate. The rock-crystal on the one side, vegetable and animal on the other : how infinitely different the image ! Is it, then, possible to bridge over this gulf ? We answer, Not at the present time.
الصفحة 190 - COLOUR is a truly material property : it cannot attach to a feeling, properly so called, a pleasure, or a pain. These three properties are the basis of matter ; to them are superadded Form, Motion, Position, and a host of other properties expressed in terms of these, Attractions and Repulsions, Hardness and Elasticity, Cohesion, Crystallization. Mental states and bodily states cannot be compared."—Ibid.
الصفحة 191 - Every whole is greater than a part of the same," and this, " The same thing cannot be, and not be, at the same time, and in the same respect.
الصفحة 191 - The arguments for the two substances have, we believe, now entirely lost their validity ; they are no longer compatible with ascertained science and clear thinking. The one substance, with two sets of properties, two sides, the physical and the mental — a doublefaced unity — would appear to comply with all the exigencies of the case.
الصفحة 189 - I have a great God." mien outward strength is broken, faith rests on the promises. In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. — Cecil. Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith iii an ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

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