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Absolute according assertion association avowed belief bilities Britain British Empiricism called Carlyle Cogitationism cognisance Comte Comte's Comtism conceived connexion Constructive Idealism Constructive Idealists cosmological conception Cosmos Deity distinct doctrine Empiricism Essay existence experience external world F. W. NEWMAN fact faith farther Fichte Hamiltonian Hegel human mind Hume ideas Infinite intellectual Kant knowledge Locke's Lockism Logic Mansel material Matter means metaphysical Mill Mill's Natural Realism neutrum Nihilism Non-Ego objects Ontology organism origin permanent possibilities phænomenal phænomenal world phænomenon philoso Philosophy of Perception Physiology positive possibilities of sensation predicate present principle priori element psychological theory question reason recent British Philosophy Reid Relativity Relativity of Knowledge respect Secret of Hegel seems sense sentiency series of feelings Sir William Hamilton soul speculative substance Supernatural supposed Theism Theology things thinkers thread of consciousness tion transcend Transcendentalism Transcendentalists truth ultimate Universe views word writings
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Page 153 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 236 - He to whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 63 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them be:-t ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 16 - An Introduction to Mental Philosophy, on the Inductive Method. By JD MORELL, MA LL.D. 8vo. 12s. Elements of Psychology, containing the Analysis of the Intellectual Powers. By the same Author. Post 8vo. 7s. 6d. The Secret of Hegel: being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter.
Page 222 - Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox, that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Page 154 - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Page 178 - Along with whatever any intelligence knows, it must, as the ground or condition of its knowledge, have some cognisance of itself...
Page 165 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Page 135 - We see no ground for believing that anything can be the object of our knowledge except our experience, and what can be inferred from our experience by the analogies of experience itself; nor that there is any idea, feeling, or power in the human mind, which, in order to account for it, requires that its origin should be referred to any other source.
Page 91 - It is not an object, of knowledge ; but its notion, as a regulative principle of the mind itself, is more than a mere negation of the conditioned.