James Martineau and His Greatest BookW. Tyrrell, 1905 - 136 sayfa |
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Sayfa 121 - ... 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...
Sayfa 125 - The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of evolution by which things have come to be what they are, the more we are likely to feel that to deny the everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning.
Sayfa 121 - ... 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 ? ' The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable.
Sayfa 2 - HIGH hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams ; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.
Sayfa 121 - 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...
Sayfa 132 - Were the problem surrendered to physics and metaphysics, it could never quit its state of suspense; there would be nothing to forbid the future: there would be nothing to promise it; and in such a question this intellectual balance would be tantamount to practical negation. Not till we turn to the moral aspects of Death, do we meet with the presiding reasons which give the casting vote: here it is that, having got the conditions of the case into right form, we call the real evidence and weigh the...
Sayfa 129 - And there is no assignable reason why the case should be otherwise with intellectual and moral natures. If at a certain stage in the development of the cosmos, the Supreme Mind set up at a given centre a personal subject of thought and will like his own, with adequate assignment of causality, what is to prevent this from being a freehold in perpetuity? Why may not the communicated Divine nature endure as long as the uncommunicated Source on which it lives? So far as thought, and love, and goodness...
Sayfa 85 - ... almightiness of God, unless you mean to throw away the relations of any established universe, and pass into his unconditioned infinitude : in the cosmos, he has abnegated it ; and there is a limit for what you may demand from it as within its compass. The limits, it is true, which are assigned to its play are self-imposed : but, in order to any determinate action at all, some limits had to be assigned : and, unless you can show that to a different scheme better possibilities and a less mixed...
Sayfa 55 - Agency ; replacing multifarious and fluctuating impulse pro re nata by a few great lines of purpose, each curving round and embracing innumerable particulars, and all forming sections of a universal plan. Every law represents one thought and is the explicit unfolding of one comprehensive and standing volition ; it constitutes therefore a single genus of power, which will not swerve till all its contents be delivered. In relation to its origin, it is still an act of Will, settling what was indeterminate...
Sayfa 72 - To sum up then the results which are yielded by the principle of Causality : there is One universal Cause, the infinite and eternal seat of all power, an omniscient Mind, ordering all things for ends selected with perfect wisdom.