 ... in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition,' to originate some movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to some one or more material...  Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects - Page 462by John Frederick William Herschel - 1867 - 507 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1882 - 662 pages
...hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make tome material disposition, to originate some, movement,...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality. Surely Lucretius (or his master Epicurus) must have foreseen that Will must, somehow or other, exert... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1871 - 524 pages
...at every instant of time by material particles, sui generis, moving in right lines in every possibh direction, and impinging upon the material atoms of...recognized as a dominant one in physics— that of the a conservation of force "—stands opposed to any, even the smallest amount of arbitrary change in... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 522 pages
...with the dynamical force disengaged directly or indirectly by the act than the pull of a. hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." (The Fortnightly Review for July 1, 1865, Vol. I, p. 439.) This directing capacity of the animal will,... | |
 | William Henry Platt - 1883 - 352 pages
...with motive and intellect, and with all those attributes of mind in which personality consists. * * * It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...the origination of dynamical power, to however small extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." 50 POWER AND PERSONALITY OMNIPRESENT. Omnipresent... | |
 | John Masson - 1884 - 292 pages
...or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable. 1 It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality.' Surely Lucretius (or his master Epicurus) must have foreseen that Will must, somehow or other, exert... | |
 | 1886 - 436 pages
...with motive and intellect, and with all those attributes of mind in which personality consists. . . . It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...the origination of dynamical power, to however small extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." We have said that evolution is a method, not... | |
 | William Henry Platt - 1886 - 374 pages
...with motive and intellect, and with all those attributes of mind in which personality consists * * * It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...the origination of dynamical power, to however small extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality. In that peculiar mental sensation, clear to... | |
 | Joseph John Murphy - 1893 - 280 pages
...the dynamical force disengaged, directly or indirectly, by the act, than the pull of a hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." l A French writer of our time—Professor Armand Sabaticr, of Montpellier—has proposed to cut the... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 394 pages
...with the dynamical force disengaged directly or indirectly by the act, than the pull of a hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it...extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." 1 This being the state of the case, it is, I think, evident that Science has shown no sufficient ground... | |
 | 1894 - 384 pages
...with the dynamical force disengaged directly or indirectly by the act, than the pull of a hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it...small an extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality."1 This being the state of the case, it is, I think, evident that Science has shown no... | |
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