The Senses and the intellect

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Appleton, 1874 - 714 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 607 - ... And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle. In like manner we may consider Peter so far forth as man, or so far forth as animal, without framing the forementioned abstract idea, either of man or of animal, inasmuch as all that is perceived is...
الصفحة 628 - In the act of sensible perception, I am conscious of two things ; — of myself as the perceiving subject, and of an external reality, in relation with my sense, as the object perccived.
الصفحة 478 - Persuasion implies that some course of conduct shall be so described, or expressed, as to coincide, or be identified, with the active impulses of the individuals addressed, and thereby command their adoption of it by the force of their own natural dispositions.
الصفحة 130 - It is thickest in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the skin is much exposed to pressure, and it is not Fig.
الصفحة 410 - In the perfect identity between a present and a past impression, the past is recovered and fused with the present, instantaneously and surely. So quick and unfaltering is the process that we lose sight of it altogether ( ! ) ; we are scarcely made aware of the existence of a reproductive link of similarity in the chain of sequence. When I look at the full moon, I am instantly impressed with the state arising from all my former impressions of her disc added together " (" Senses and Intellect,
الصفحة 363 - The hum of the Beetle is beautiful in a fine summer evening, as appearing to suit the stillness and repose of that pleasing season : in the noon of day it is perfectly indifferent. The twitter of the Swallow is beautiful in the morning, and seems to be expressive of the cheerfulness of that time : at any other hour it is quite insignificant.
الصفحة 628 - ... object perceived. Of the existence of both these things I am convinced ; because I am conscious of knowing each of them, not mediately, in something else, as represented, but immediately in itself, as existing. Of their mutual independence I am no less convinced ; because each is apprehended equally, and at once, in the same indivisible energy, the one not preceding or determining, the other not following or determined ; and because each is apprehended out of, and in direct contrast to, the other.
الصفحة 649 - Under a transport of Joy or of vivid Pleasure, there is a strong tendency to various purposeless movements, and to the utterance of various sounds. We see this in our young children, in their loud laughter, clapping of hands, and jumping for joy ; in the bounding and barking of a dog when going out to walk with his master ; and in the frisking of a horse when turijed out into an open field. Joy quickens the circulation, and this stimulates the brain, which again reacts on the whole body.
الصفحة 578 - The varieties of soul are distributed into successive stages gradually narrowing in extension and enlarging in comprehension; the first or lowest stage being co-extensive with the whole, but connoting only two or three simple attributes; the second, or next above, connoting all these and more besides, but denoting only part of the individuals denoted by the first; the third connoting all this and more, but denoting yet fewer individuals; and so on forward.

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