 ... highly probable, though not completely demonstrated, the applicability to living beings of the laws which have been ascertained with reference to dead matter, I feel constrained at the same time to admit the existence of a mysterious something lying...  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 5751869Full view - About this book
 | Charles McArthur - 1882 - 172 pages
...admit the existence of a mysterious something lying beyond — a something sui generis, which I regard, not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical...with them and through them to the attainment of a destined end. What this something which we call life may be, is a profound mystery." By pursuing the... | |
 | William Lintern - 1884 - 238 pages
...mysterious something lying beyond — a some" thing sui generis — which I regard, not as balan" cing and suspending the ordinary physical laws, " but as...them, " to the attainment of a designed end. What " that something, which we call life, may be, is a " profound mystery." In their process of development,... | |
 | American Psychiatric Association - 1899 - 466 pages
...admit the existence of a mysterious something lying beyond, a something suigeneris, which I regard not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical...something which we call life may be is a profound mystery. When from the phenomena of life we pass on to those of mind we enter a region still more profoundly... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - 400 pages
...the existence of a mysterious something lying beyond, — - a something su i generis, which I regard, not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical laws, but as working with them to the attainment of a designed end. What this something, which we call lif e, may be, is a profound... | |
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