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... called . My wonder is , — not that there are few so - called Mental philosophers who use or even advocate any experimental method of inquiry into the science of mind ; but that there seem to me to be none . If I am wrong as to the fact ...
... called . My wonder is , — not that there are few so - called Mental philosophers who use or even advocate any experimental method of inquiry into the science of mind ; but that there seem to me to be none . If I am wrong as to the fact ...
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... called free will , not subject to law , or dependent on material conditions ; though a man has no more power to determine his own will than he has wings to fly . Of course , I need not say to you that these popular notions are mere ...
... called free will , not subject to law , or dependent on material conditions ; though a man has no more power to determine his own will than he has wings to fly . Of course , I need not say to you that these popular notions are mere ...
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... Mental Philosophy is , therefore , the physi- ology of the brain , as Gall termed it . Spurzheim called it Phrenology . Perhaps I might suggest - mined a product of a Brain to Phreno - physiology 16 MAN'S NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT .
... Mental Philosophy is , therefore , the physi- ology of the brain , as Gall termed it . Spurzheim called it Phrenology . Perhaps I might suggest - mined a product of a Brain to Phreno - physiology 16 MAN'S NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT .
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... called evidence , and descriptions and so - called analyses of faculties whose nature and origin are not even looked for , and whose management and control cannot therefore be provided for . You will teach me better . You will open the ...
... called evidence , and descriptions and so - called analyses of faculties whose nature and origin are not even looked for , and whose management and control cannot therefore be provided for . You will teach me better . You will open the ...
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... called the Silvian fissure , on the side , there are also convolutions which do not manifest them- selves on the surface . It is very evident , then , that the functions of all these convolutions are not to be ascertained from ...
... called the Silvian fissure , on the side , there are also convolutions which do not manifest them- selves on the surface . It is very evident , then , that the functions of all these convolutions are not to be ascertained from ...
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Page 219 - And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Page 359 - ... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees...
Page 178 - God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely...
Page 381 - While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external impressions through the senses, but were haunted by visions...
Page 334 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 311 - And therefore if a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle; or accidents of bread in cheese; or immaterial substances; or of a free subject; a free will; or any free but free from being hindered by opposition; I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning; that is to say, absurd.
Page viii - In my opinion, profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other...
Page 183 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page iii - But the commandment of knowledge is yet higher than the commandment over the will ; for it is a commandment over the reason, belief, and understanding of man, which is the highest part of the mind, and giveth law to the will itself : for there is no power on earth, which setteth up a throne, or chair of state, in the spirits and souls of men, and in their cogitations, imaginations, opinions, and beliefs, but knowledge and learning.
Page 304 - Swedenborg went out, and after a short interval returned to the company quite pale and alarmed. He said that a dangerous fire had just broken out in Stockholm, at the Sudermalm, (Gottenburg is about three hundred miles from Stockholm,) and that it was spreading very fast.