Collected Essays and Reviews

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1920 - 516 pagine
 

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Pagina 251 - The reward of persistency will infallibly come, in the fading out of the sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment, and your heart must
Pagina 123 - speculation can no longer overlap it and put her girdle of interrogation-marks around existence. Even the least religious of men must have felt with our national ontologic poet, Walt Whitman, when loafing on the grass on some transparent summer morning, that "Swiftly arose and spread around him the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth". At such
Pagina 398 - lying rather in the fact that the experience must be particular, than in the fact that it must be active. To take in the importance of this principle, one must get accustomed to applying it to concrete cases. Such use as I am able to make of it convinces me that to be mindful of it in
Pagina 102 - as the doctors say, is pathognomonic of the condition of Ockham's entire modern progeny. But still we may find expressions like this: "When I say that the sight of any object gives me the same sensation or emotion to-day that it did yesterday, or the same which it gives to some other
Pagina 125 - With this we seem to have exhausted all the possibilities of purely theoretic rationality. But we saw at the outset that when subjectively considered / rationality can only be defined as perfectly unimpeded mental function. Impediments which arise in the purely theoretic sphere might perhaps be avoided if the stream of mental action should leave
Pagina 253 - The last great argument in favour of the priority of the bodily symptoms to the felt emotion is the ease with which we formulate by its means pathological cases and normal cases under a common scheme. In every asylum we find examples of absolutely unmotived fear, anger, melancholy, or conceit; and others of an equally unmotived apathy
Pagina 117 - Bain's words are so untrue that in reflecting men it is just when the attempt to fuse the manifold into a single totality has been most successful, when the conception of the universe as a fait unique (in D'Alembert's words) is nearest its perfection, that the craving for further explanation, the ontological
Pagina 133 - From the dim dawn of history, and from the inmost depth of every soul, the face of our father Man looks out upon us with the fire of eternal youth in his eyes, and says: 'Before Jehovah was, I am!
Pagina 244 - heart-beats nor of shallow breathing, neither of trembling lips nor of weakened limbs, neither of goose-flesh nor of visceral stirrings, were present, it is quite impossible to think. Can one fancy the state of rage and picture no ebullition of it in the chest, no flushing of the face, no dilatation of the nostrils, no clenching of the teeth, no impulse to vigorous action,
Pagina 89 - IV Our first conclusion may then be this: No system of philosophy can hope to be universally accepted among men which grossly violates either of the two great' aesthetic needs of our logical nature, ^ .• the need of unity and the need of clearness, or entirely subordinates the one to the other. Doctrines of mere disintegration like that

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