 Our sensations, our pleasures, our pains, and the relations of these make up the sum total of the elements of positive, unquestionable knowledge. We call a large section of these sensations and their relations matter and motion ; the rest we term mind...  The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley - Síða 373eftir Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 síður
...substance of physical phenomena — the assumption of the existence of which is as pure a piece of metaphysical speculation as that of the substance...between some of the former and some of the latter. WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, Friday, March 14, 1879. WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Esq. MADCL Pres.B.8. Vice-President,... | |
 | 1911 - 856 síður
...passage: "Our sensations, our pleasures, our pains, and the relations of these, make up the sum-total of the elements of positive, unquestionable knowledge....between some of the former and some of the latter." lmmediately after these words Huxley guards his Agnostic position by declaring that materialism cannot... | |
 | 1879 - 978 síður
...substance of physical phenomena — the assumption of the existence of which is as pure a piece of metaphysical speculation as that of the substance...is limited to facts of consciousness, affirms the wholly unprovable proposition that nothing exists beyond these and the substance of mind. And, on the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1881 - 372 síður
...of the existence of which is as pure a piece of metaphysical speculation as is that of the existence of the substance of mind. Our sensations, our pleasures,...is limited to facts of consciousness, affirms the wholly un provable proposition that nothing exists beyond these and the substance of mind. And, on... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 598 síður
...relations matter and motion ; the rest we term mind and thinking ; and experience shows that there is a constant order of succession between some of the former and some of the latter."* He can disclaim being a materialist because he is a complete positivist or sensationalist. And yet... | |
 | Samue Harris (D.D.) - 1892 - 606 síður
...relations matter and motion ; the rest we term mind and thinking; and experience shows that there is a constant order of succession between some of the former and some of the hitter."* He can disclaim being a materialist because he is a complete positivist or sensationalist.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 síður
...of the existence of which is as pure a piece of metaphysical speculation as is that of the existence of the substance of mind. Our sensations, our pleasures,...is limited to facts of consciousness, affirms the wholly unprovable proposition that nothing exists beyond these and the substance of mind. And, on the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 síður
...of the existence of which is as pure a piece of metaphysical speculation as is that of the existence of the substance of mind. Our sensations, our pleasures,...criticism leaves of the idols set up by the spurious metaphysies of vulgar common sense. It is consistent either with pure Materialism, or with pure Idealism,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 síður
...of the existence of which is as pure a piece of metaphysical speculation as is that of the existence of the substance of mind. Our sensations, our pleasures,...is limited to facts of consciousness, affirms the wholly 1mprovable proposition that nothing exists beyond these and the substance of mind. And, on the... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1898 - 754 síður
...relations matter and motion; the rest we term mind and thinking; and experience shows that there is a constant order of succession between some of the former and some of the latter." (P. 318.) Now, when having closed the book and looking up, one sees a bunch of purple violets, delicately... | |
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