 | James Thompson Bixby - 1876 - 254 pages
...Matter and force are, so far as we can know, mere names for certain forms of consciousness. . . . Thus it is an indisputable truth that, what we call the...only known to us under the forms of the ideal world." Herbert Spencer, "Principles of Psychology," p. 206, says, after an extended review of the relativity... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 pages
...and " force " are, so far as we ' can know, mere names for certain forms of conscious' ness. . . . It is an indisputable truth, that what ' we call the...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... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 512 pages
..." and " Force " are, so far as we ' can know, mere names for certain forms of conscious' ness. . . It is an indisputable truth that what ' we call the...to us 'under the forms of the ideal world; and as Des ' Cartes tells us, our knowledge of the soul is more in' timate and certain than our knowledge... | |
 | 1880 - 470 pages
...recognized as a truth of mighty consequence. For instance, in his lecture on Descartes, Huxley says,' What we call the material world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world, and our knowledge of the soul is more intimate and certain than our knowledge of the body.' There are,... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 412 pages
...consciousness. 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." l But if matter and force are mere names for certain states of consciousness, what right has the materialist... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1882 - 416 pages
...consciouanesa," that indeed, " all our knowledge is a knowledge of states of consciousness," and " what we call the material world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world;" (HuxLкY: " Lay Sermons," p. 374.) and, finally, tlmt " the Laws of Nature are simply our constructions,"... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Cocker - 1882 - 212 pages
...indeed, " all our knowledge is a knowledge of states of consciousness," and " what we call the materia!. world is only known to us under the forms of the ideal world ; " (HuxLEY : " Lay Sermons," p. 374.) and, finally, that " the Laws of Nature are simply our constructions,"... | |
 | John Page Hopps - 1884 - 166 pages
...so far as we know, mere names for certain forms of consciousness. . . . Thus it is an undisputable truth that what we call the material world is only...more intimate and certain than our knowledge of the body." And that is the deliverance of Mr. Huxley, the terror of divines who do not comprehend him !... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - 1888 - 528 pages
...transmitting media for them. In discoursing to the Christian young men of Cambridge, he tells them that " it is an indisputable truth that what we ' call the...more intimate and certain than our knowledge ' of the body." 1 If our knowledge of the soul is so intimate and certain, is it identical with that consciousness... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - 1888 - 510 pages
...transmitting media for them. In discoursing to the Christian young men of Cambridge, he tells them that " it is an indisputable truth that what we ' call the...soul is more intimate and certain than our knowledge BIOLOGICAL SPECULATIONS. 137 ' of the body." l If our knowledge of the soul is so intimate and certain,... | |
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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. 
