 ... the dynamical force disengaged, directly or indirectly, by the act, than the pull of a hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition, to originate some movement, or...  The British Quarterly Review - Page 3031882Full view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1872 - 606 pages
...and then distinctly affirmed that we must originate some force, for " without the power of changing, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force...results of human or animal volition are inconceivable." In this case, then, by far the greater part of the force which we seem to exert is exerted directly... | |
 | William Henry Platt - God - 1883 - 352 pages
...with motive and intellect, and with all those attributes of mind in which personality consists. * * * It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...the origination of dynamical power, to however small extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." 50 POWER AND PERSONALITY OMNIPRESENT. Omnipresent... | |
 | S. Tolver Preston - Evolution - 1884 - 98 pages
...not be rigidly true. Sir John Herschel says, for example, — " But without the power to make some material disposition to originate some movement, or...results of human or animal volition are inconceivable " (page 468 of edition of " Popular Lectures," published in 1873). This, therefore, by showing that... | |
 | John Masson - Atomism - 1884 - 292 pages
...hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition, to originate some movement,...results of human or animal volition are inconceivable. 1 It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed. It suffices to bring... | |
 | John Masson - Atomism - 1884 - 288 pages
...hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition, to originate some movement,...mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable.1 It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed. It suffices... | |
 | William Henry Platt - Supernatural - 1886 - 374 pages
...with motive and intellect, and with all those attributes of mind in which personality consists * * * It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...the origination of dynamical power, to however small extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality. In that peculiar mental sensation, clear to... | |
 | Apologetics - 1886 - 436 pages
...with motive and intellect, and with all those attributes of mind in which personality consists. . . . It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in...the origination of dynamical power, to however small extent, within the domain of acknowledged personality." We have said that evolution is a method, not... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1891 - 894 pages
...that Sir John Herschel thought differently — thought, in fact, that "without the power to make some material disposition, to originate some movement,...temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to one or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable"... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1891 - 900 pages
...— thought, in fact, that " without the power to make some material disposition, to originate same movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to one or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable"... | |
 | John Masson - Atomism - 1907 - 514 pages
...hair-trigger in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition, to originate some movement,...mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable.1 It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed. It suffices... | |
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