 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...nothing else in the universe but 'matter' and 'force' and 'necessary laws,' I decline to follow them. What we call the material world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world; all our knowledge is a knowledge of states of consciousness. If I say that 'impenetrability' is a property... | |
 | 1880 - 540 pages
..." Matter " and " Force " are, so far as we can know, mere names for certain forms of consciousness. What we call the material world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world." I>r. Henry Maudsley, commonly classed as a Materialist in the worst sense of that term, says, in the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 pages
...means a rule which we have always found to hold good, and which we expect always will hold good. Thus it is an indisputable truth that what we call the...more intimate and certain than "our knowledge of the body. If I say that impenetrability is a property of matter, all that I can really mean is that the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1871 - 422 pages
...a rule which we have always found to hold good, and which we expect always will hold good. Thus n< is an indisputable truth that what we call the material...more intimate and certain than our knowledge of the body. If I say that impenetrability is a property of matter, all that I can really mean is that the... | |
 | 1871 - 674 pages
...Professor Huxlcy now maintains, it be " an indisputable truth, that what we call the materialistic world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world," it seems more naturally to follow that even the facts of the material world should find expression... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1872 - 422 pages
...means a rule which we have always found to hold good, and which we expect always will hold good. Thus it is an indisputable truth that what we call the material world is only known to us tinder the forms of the ideal world ; and, as Descartes tells us, our knowledge of the soul is more... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...experimental philosophy of the human mind,' as he has been called by Dugald Stewart, maintains that our knowledge of the soul is more intimate and certain than our knowledge of the body. It is not a matter to reason about. I doubt whether, on this subject, we can go beyond the emphatic... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 pages
...: — ' All our knowledge is a knowledge of states of consciousness. " Matter" and " force" arc, so far as we can know, mere names for certain forms of...to us under the forms of the ideal world ; and as Des Cartes tells us, our knowledge of the soul is more intimate and certain than our knowledge of the... | |
 | Dora Greenwell - 1875 - 248 pages
...knowledge of the soul is more intimate and certain than our knowledge of the body ; and adds, " that it is an indisputable truth that what we call the...material world is only known to us under the forms of t lie ideal world." " It behoves us," writes Mawdesley, " to clearly realise, as the broad facts which... | |
 | Dora Greenwell - 1875 - 250 pages
...certain than our knowledge of the body ; and adds, " that it is an indisputable truth that what wj call the material world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world" " It behoves us," writes Mawdesley, " to clearly realise, as the broad facts which have most widereaching... | |
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Thus it is an indisputable truth that what we call the material world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world ; and, as Descartes tells us, our knowledge of the soul is more intimate and certain than our knowledge of the body. 
