The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Being an Examination of the First Principles of His System

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Nelson & Phillips, 1874 - 283 oldal

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106. oldal - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
122. oldal - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
122. oldal - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
68. oldal - The very conception of consciousness, in whatever mode it may be manifested, necessarily implies distinction between one object and another. To be conscious, we must be conscious of something ; and that something can only be known, as that which it is, by being distinguished from that which it is not. But distinction is necessarily limitation ; for, if one object is to be distinguished from another, it must possess some form of existence which the other has not, or it must not possess some form which...
53. oldal - And on contemplating the process of thought, we have equally seen how impossible it is to get rid of the consciousness of an actuality lying behind appearances ; and how, from this impossibility, results our indestructible belief in that actuality »." The last chapter is on "The Reconciliation between Religion and Science.
19. oldal - Through pure excess of complexity, and long before observation can have any voice in the matter, the most highly trained intellect, the most refined and disciplined imagination, retires in bewilderment from, the contemplation of the problem. We are struck dumb by an astonishment...
17. oldal - That no idea or feeling arises, save as a result of some physical force expended in producing it, is fast becoming a commonplace of science...
48. oldal - The Noumenon, everywhere named as the antithesis of the Phenomenon, is throughout necessarily thought of as an actuality. It is rigorously impossible to conceive that our knowledge is a knowledge of Appearances only, without at the same time conceiving a Reality of which they are appearances ; for appearance without reality is unthinkable.
118. oldal - It is possible to imagine in some dim kind of way a series of states of consciousness serving as antecedent to any one of the movements I see going on ; for my own states of consciousness are often indirectly the antecedents to such movements. But how if I attempt to think of such a series as antecedent to all actions throughout the universe, to the motions of the multitudinous stars through space, to the revolutions of all their planets round them, to the gyrations of all these planets on their...
120. oldal - And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, grasping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...

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