A Study of Religion: Its Sources and ContentsClarendon Press, 1888 |
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Page 331 - 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 apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 14 - Parti. 1o*. 6d. Vol. II. The Sacred Laws of the Aryas, as taught in the Schools of Apastamba, Gautama, VasishiAa, and Baudhayana. Translated by Prof. GEORG BUHLER. Part I. IOS. 6d. Vol. III. The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Confucianism.
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Page 331 - Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness Í" The chasm between...
Page 257 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends of course upon special laws; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are subordinate. And the power of the larger law is so irresistible, that neither the love of life nor the fear of another world can avail anything towards even checking its operation.
Page 347 - For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept• the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.
Page 204 - Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. By JAMES MILL. With Notes, Illustrative and Critical. 2 vols. 8vo. 28^.
Page 102 - ... A widow — she had only one ! A puny and decrepit son ; But, day and night, Though fretful oft, and weak and small A loving child, he was her all — The Widow's Mite. The Widow's Mite — ay, so sustain'd.
Page 315 - If,' says the robber, the ravisher, or the murderer, ' I act because I must act, what right have you to hold me responsible for my deeds ? ' The reply is, ' The right of society to protect itself against aggressive and injurious forces, whether they be bond or free, forces of nature or forces of man.
Page 331 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem ; but the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process...