 Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they do not conform to law, this work, in common with all works on the subject, is sheer nonsense : no science of Psychology is possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing...  Lessons from Nature, as Manifested in Mind and Matter - Page 125by St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 462 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...law as the simplex reflex actions To reduce the general question to its simplest form : —Psychical changes either conform to law, or they do not. If...science of Psychology is possible. If they do conform tu law, there cannot be any such thing as free-will. (Page G1U.) We cannot now enter upon the well-worn... | |
 | John Dickson Bruns - 1857 - 62 pages
...of course. " To reduce the general question," says Spencer, " to its simplest form : — Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they do not conform to law, no science of Psychology is possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing as... | |
 | Bible - 1874 - 824 pages
...it may be well to pause a moment to look at his twofold argument. " Psychical changes," he says, " either conform to law, or they do not. If they do...subject, is sheer nonsense ; no science of psychology is 230 THE FOUNDATIONS OF THEOLOGY SURE. possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1866 - 518 pages
...But we are satisfied to quote some of the author's own last words : " Psychical changes," he submits, "either conform to law, or they do not. If they do not conform to law, this work (his work), in common with all works on the subject, is sheer nonsense : no science of psychology is... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 114 pages
...psychical changes (thoughts, &c.) conform to law, or else a science of Psychology is impossible; and "if they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing as free-will." And yet the idea of Correlation, when reduced to its lowest terms, gives us self-movement... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1870 - 658 pages
...apparently subject to no law. § 220. To reduce the general question to its simplest form : — Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they...law, there cannot be any such thing as free will. I will only further say that freedom of the will, did it exist, would be at variance with the beneficent... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1870 - 704 pages
...apparently subject to no law. § 220. To reduce the general question to its simplest form : — Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they...law, there cannot be any such thing as free will. I will only further say that freedom of the will, did ' it exist, would be at variance with the beneficent... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1871 - 660 pages
...subject to no law. C § 220. To reduce the general question to its simplest \ form : — Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they...on the subject, is sheer nonsense : no science of Psychelogy is possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing as free will. I will... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1872 - 660 pages
...in degree, the psychical changes will become incalculable and apparently subject to no law. § 220. To reduce the general question to its simplest form:—Psychical...law, there cannot be any such thing as free will. I will only further say that freedom of the will, did it exist, would be at variance with the beneficent... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 662 pages
...apparently subject to no law. § 220. To reduce the general question to its simplest form : — Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they...law, there cannot be any such thing as free will. I will only further say that freedom of the will, did it exist, would be at variance with the beneficent... | |
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