 | 1886 - 400 sayfa
...changes. When Professor Huxley, in his Belfast lecture, spoke of man as nothing but " a part of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken...has been, and shall be — the sum of existence," I have no doubt that he expressed Mr. Herbert Spencer's conviction as well as his own. Now, what seems... | |
 | 1875 - 1036 sayfa
...nevertheless" (inasmuch as our likings are not really, at bottom, of our own making), " parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken...has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." This is perfectly intelligible. We may admire or abhor the picture of ourselves which is thus presented... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 sayfa
...prosecution of this aim we have ourselves no voice whatever; since we are nothing but " parts of the great series of causes and effects, which, in unbroken...has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." Into such high philosophy I do not care to enter. It is like the " lunar politics " of Professor Huxley... | |
 | 1875 - 844 sayfa
...term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken...and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence. As to the logical consequences of this conviction of mine, I may be permitted to remark that logical... | |
 | 1876 - 1072 sayfa
...cosmic gas," and effected without " the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes."* As to his present relations to the universe of things,...in unbroken continuity, composes that which is, and lias been, and shall be, the sum of existence."t To what goal the race is tending is not yet satisfactorily... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - 1877 - 130 sayfa
...less parts of the same great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken continuity, comprises that which is, and has been, and shall be — the sum of existence." — (Huxley, Fortnightly Review, p. 577, 1874.) I cannot say that I quite understand what is meant... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 sayfa
...term, in' asmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we ' like, but none the less parts of the great series of ' causes and effects which, in unbroken...and has been, and shall be, 'the sum of existence.' The account given in these passages of the problem before us is beset with difficulties and inconsistencies,... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 512 sayfa
...term, in' asmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we ' like, but none the less parts of the great series of ' causes and effects which, in unbroken...and has been, and shall be, ' the sum of existence.' -' The account given in these passages of the problem before us is beset with difficulties and inconsistencies,... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - 1880 - 412 sayfa
...term, inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like, " but are, none the less, parts of the great series of causes and " effects which in unbroken continuity composes that which is, " has been, and shall be, the sum of existence." That is it, precisely : we can do in some respects... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1881 - 888 sayfa
...of the Automatist philosophy, on the other hand, which represents Man as nothing but " a part of the great " series of causes and effects, •which, in...has been, and shall be — the sum " of existence," " seems to me to be no less certainly towards the discouragement of all determinate effort, either... | |
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We are conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... 
