Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925Macmillan, 1925 - 296 páginas |
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... It is certain that all bodies whatsoever , though they have no sense , yet they have perception ; for when one body is applied to another , there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable , and 60 [ CH . SCIENCE AND THE ...
... It is certain that all bodies whatsoever , though they have no sense , yet they have perception ; for when one body is applied to another , there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable , and 60 [ CH . SCIENCE AND THE ...
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... It is certain that all bodies whatsoever , though they have no sense , yet they have perception : . . and whether the body be alterant or altered , ever- more a perception precedeth operation ; for else all bodies would be alike one to ...
... It is certain that all bodies whatsoever , though they have no sense , yet they have perception : . . and whether the body be alterant or altered , ever- more a perception precedeth operation ; for else all bodies would be alike one to ...
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Accordingly actual occasion aesthetic analysis Aristotle aspects atom body cerned character civilisation cognition complete concept concrete definite Descartes doctrine duration effect eighteenth century electrons element ence endurance energy entities environment epoch eternal objects ether event example exhibited existence experience express fact finite Galileo genius grade human ideas individual essences individualised involved John Locke knowledge laws lecture Leibniz limited logical material materialistic mathematics matter mean ment mentality merely metaphysical Middle Ages mind mode modern molecule Newton nineteenth century notion objectivist philosophy order of nature organic theory particular pattern period philosophy physical possibility prehension presupposes primate principle protons Pythagoras question rationality realisation reality realm reason relatedness relations relationships religion religious requires respect scheme scientific sense sense-object seventeenth century simple location sion space space-time space-time system spatio-temporal subjectivist successive theory of relativity things thought tion ultimate unity vibration vibratory whole Wordsworth
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Página 117 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 122 - Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on the earth ! Ye Visions of the hills ! And Souls of lonely places ! can I think A vulgar hope was yours when ye employed Such ministry, when ye, through many a year Haunting me thus among my boyish sports, On caves and trees, upon the woods and hills...
Página 107 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Página 124 - The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark, now glittering, now reflecting gloom, Now lending splendor, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters...
Página 48 - Nothing is more impressive than the fact that as mathematics withdrew increasingly into the upper regions of ever greater extremes of abstract thought, it returned back to earth with a corresponding growth of importance for the analysis of concrete fact.
Página 119 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Página 136 - ... Remembering the poetic rendering of our concrete experience, we see at once that the element of value, of being valuable, of having value, of being an end in itself, of being something which is for its own sake, must not be omitted in any account of an event as the most concrete actual something. 'Value 7 is the word I use for the intrinsic reality of an event.
Página 6 - Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Página 264 - A clash of doctrines is not a disaster — it is an opportunity.
Página 265 - In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat : but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.