... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. Organic Evolution Considered - Page 376by Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 260 pages
...loves beauty, harmony, and joy. Professor Huxley says : " The progress of science in all ages has meant the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant general banishment of what we call spirit and spontaneity." But he admits that a human being is " capable,... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 282 pages
...loves beauty, harmony, and joy. Professor Huxley says : " The progress of science in all ages has meant the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant general banishment of what we call spirit and spontaneity." But he admits that a human being is " capable,... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1880 - 408 pages
...phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause, any one who is acquainted with the history of science wUl admit, that its progress has, in all ages, meant,...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. I have endeavoured, in the first part of this discourse, to give you a conception of the direction... | |
| Francis Orpen Morris - 1880 - 62 pages
...express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter." " The extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." " Traced back to its earlier state, the nettle arises as the man does from a particle of nucleated... | |
| Robert Flint - 1880 - 586 pages
...philosophical impossibility to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause, any one who is acquainted with the history of science...its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now more that ever means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 pages
...nature's laws. Professor Huxley, for example, says, " The progress of science in all ages has meant the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant banishment of what we call spirit and spontaneity." But the Professor admits, in so many words, that... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1883 - 598 pages
...Force and its Mental and Moral Correlates : p. 98. \ Evolution of Man. Vol. II., p. 454. Translation. and now more than ever means, the extension of the...thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity."* Lange says : " The peculiar kind of motion which we call rational must be explained by the common laws... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1883 - 178 pages
...universe, even to mind itself. " The progress of science," says Professor Huxley, " in all ages, has meant the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." But the Professor admits " that a human being is, if he be a machine, capable within certain limits... | |
| Samue Harris (D.D.) - 1892 - 606 pages
...While it is impossible to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause, any one who is acquainted with the history of science...will admit that its progress has in all ages meant, • Die Welt als Entwickelung des Geistes ; aa. 18, 19. t Kraft und Stoff. Chaps, xii., xiii. ; Force... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1883 - 618 pages
...Force and its Mental nnd Moral Corr?lnte3 : p. 08. \ Evolution of Man. Vol. II., p. 4.54. Translation. and now more than ever means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, aud the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call sjiirit and... | |
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