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... believe , however , that the study of these abnormal con- ditions , especially hypnotism and some morbid states , will extend our knowledge both of mind and matter vastly beyond what is now anticipated . INTOXICATION . § 26 ...
... believe , however , that the study of these abnormal con- ditions , especially hypnotism and some morbid states , will extend our knowledge both of mind and matter vastly beyond what is now anticipated . INTOXICATION . § 26 ...
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... believe that the existence of our conscious selves is not bound up with the integrity of our bodily organism . Indeed , when we consider the cases of double consciousness , the wonder comes over us whether even our birth may not be but ...
... believe that the existence of our conscious selves is not bound up with the integrity of our bodily organism . Indeed , when we consider the cases of double consciousness , the wonder comes over us whether even our birth may not be but ...
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... believe that because it was a mental reality it also must have ex- ternal reality . An abstract is a reality of the mind formed by the plastic powers , but to which there is no correspondent external phenomenon agreeing in its entirety ...
... believe that because it was a mental reality it also must have ex- ternal reality . An abstract is a reality of the mind formed by the plastic powers , but to which there is no correspondent external phenomenon agreeing in its entirety ...
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... seen the first , by the force of experience I believe there are others like it , and so con- struct a concept starfish the centre of which is the represented starfish I saw . The ideal of a starfish in CHAP . LII . 103 FICTIONS .
... seen the first , by the force of experience I believe there are others like it , and so con- struct a concept starfish the centre of which is the represented starfish I saw . The ideal of a starfish in CHAP . LII . 103 FICTIONS .
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... believe in a personal devil make him a god as really as they do the Supreme Jehovah . To be sure , we may aesthetically picture falsehood , incongruity , ugli- ness or evil , but the picture itself is a thing of beauty ' and not of ...
... believe in a personal devil make him a god as really as they do the Supreme Jehovah . To be sure , we may aesthetically picture falsehood , incongruity , ugli- ness or evil , but the picture itself is a thing of beauty ' and not of ...
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Page 262 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...
Page 313 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 351 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 261 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 400 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean, — This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled.
Page 445 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 262 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called
Page 313 - Also when they shall be afraid of that -which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...