 In itself it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit ; or the phenomena of spirit, in terms of matter ; matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter — each statement...  Immortality, 4 sermons. Hulsean lects., 1868 - Page xivby John James Stewart Perowne (bp. of Worcester.) - 1869Full view - About this book
 | 1886 - 400 pages
...more fully developed in his System oj Logic, Book VI. chap. ii. t "In itself," says Professor Huxley, "it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena...spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter." — Lay Sermons, p. Kyj. (To be continued.) THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES AND DOCTRINAL TESTS. IN the "Ecclesiastical... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...self-consciousness of the "zeit geist," or animating principle of the " social organism." And so Huxley : "It is of little moment whether we express the phenomena...thought may be regarded as a property of matter." Such expressions as these are the outcome of that Monistic theory in which mind and matter are regarded... | |
 | Charles Elam - Medicine - 1869 - 436 pages
...and spirit are but names for the imaginary substrata of groups of natural phenomena." And again : " In itself it is of little moment whether we express...matter; each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred."... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Protoplasm - 1869 - 30 pages
...and no harm can accrue so long as we bear in mind that we are dealing merely with terms and symbols. In itself it is of little moment whether we express...matter — each statement has a certain relative truth. But with я view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is' in everjj way to be... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...necessity, is as utterly devoid of justification as the most baseless of theological dogmas. . . . In itself it is of little moment whether we express...matter, — each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred.... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1869 - 632 pages
...Huxley, et id omne genus,) " until it is co-extensive with knowledge, with feeling, and with action." "In itself it is of little moment whether we express...thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter. The further science advances, the more extensively and consistently will all the phenomena of nature... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...quotes from Professor Huxley. Mr. Huxley says that " matter may bo regarded as .1 form of thought, or thought may be regarded as a property of matter, — each statement has a certain relative truth." And whether material and psychological phenomena are alike regarded as molecular effects, according... | |
 | James Tyson - 1870 - 180 pages
...and no harm can accrue so long as we bear in mind that we are dealing merely with terms and symbols. In itself it is of little moment whether we express...matter — each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred.... | |
 | Medicine - 1870 - 790 pages
...and no harm can accrue so long as we bear in mind that we are dealing merely with terms and symbols. In itself it is of little moment whether we express...matter — each statement has a certain relative truth. But with reference to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is every way to be preferred."... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Life - 1870 - 56 pages
...no harm can accrue so long as we bear in mind that we are dealing merely with terms and symbols. 35 In itself it is of little moment whether we express...thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter—each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the... | |
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