 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1870 - 810 pages
...we do not Bee where the materialism can give the 86s irov irr£t. As Professor Tyndall truly says: 'The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.' Even Professor Huxley speaks of the wellfounded doctrine that life is the cause, and not the consequence... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 978 pages
...character; the inference, for example, that an clci-tric current of a given direction will detlect a magnetic; needle in a definite way ; but the cases...corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable-, (i ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously,... | |
 | Anthropology - 1869 - 688 pages
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite."* Dr. Tyudall, however, says, "The passage from the physics of the brain to the...corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Of course that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain, can never think how it is... | |
 | Missions - 1869 - 802 pages
...say, / feel, I think, I live, but how does this consciousness infuse itself into the problem ? ... The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. We do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 880 pages
...minds. Mr. Wallace himself quotes with approval the words of Professor Tyndall, that on any hypothesis " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Why then lose confidence in a theory of organic davelopment because it seems to halt on the threshold... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...Wundt and others, but by Spencer and Tyndall even. Kant, Spencer, du Bois-Reymond and Tyndall hold that the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Haeckel says that when certain parts of the brain are diseased or affected, the corresponding sense... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Knowledge - 1871 - 606 pages
...object. He would stop at this, if he did not acquire new experiences ; of a given direction will de0ect a magnetic needle in a definite way ; but the cases...; but the passage from the physics of the brain to tht corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 390 pages
...AUTOMATIC. 161 lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite.* Dr. Tyndall, however, says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Why so ? Of course that that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain can never think... | |
 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 398 pages
...existence all the lower natural forces are indispensably prerequisite.* Dr. Tyndall, however, says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness, is unthinkable." Why so ? Of course that that which we believe to be the unconscious force of the brain can never think... | |
 | Science - 1885 - 900 pages
...study of the nervous system." Dr. Tyndall (" Address on Scientific Materialism," Norwich) says : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. The chasm between the two classes of phenomena is intellectually impassable." Professor Huxley says... | |
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But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. G ranted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor... 
