Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the DoctrineA. Constable, 1906 - 128 páginas |
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absolute pheno abstract altera appointment brain-action brain's function British Museum called productive function centres combination connection continuous convolutions crests discontinuity eternal exceed exist expression fact Fechner's feeling always goes fibres finite Flechsig FROME frontal func functional dependence gastric juice Harvard University heaven hereafter human imagination immortality impressions individual Ingersoll lecture INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP inner Islam kind of function Leipzig limited lives LL.D logic lower mankind menism mental mind natural ness NOTE notion particular pathy phenomena philosophy physiological physiologists possible production-theory prophet clad psycho psycho-physical activity psychologist Psychology Religion of Ancient retina rise sciousness sensation simple psychic resultant sion-theory sort soul soul's spiritual body stream of feelings stream of nerve-messages strict logic stumbling-block suppose sure theory of production things thought thres threshold tinuity tion total wave transmission-theory transmissive function truth tween under-wave unified or simple universe veil viscus wavelets whole
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Página 107 - We -lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Página 34 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 34 - Suppose, now, that this were really so, and suppose, moreover, that the dome, opaque enough at all times to the full supersolar blaze, could at certain times and places grow less so, and let certain beams pierce through into this sublunary world. These beams would be so many finite rays, so to speak, of consciousness, and they would vary in quantity and quality as the opacity varied in degree. Only at particular times and places would it seem that, as a matter of fact, the veil of nature can grow...
Página 6 - Man," said lecture not to form a part of the usual college course, nor to be delivered by any Professor or Tutor as part of his usual routine of instruction, though any such Professor or Tutor may be appointed to such service. The choice of said lecturer is not to be limited to any one religious denomination, nor to any one profession, but may be that of either clergyman or layman, the appointment to take place at least six months before the delivery of said lecture. The above sum to be safely invested...
Página 26 - This, then, is the objection to immortality; and the next thing in order for me is to try to make plain to you why I believe that it has in strict logic no deterrent power. I must show you that the fatal consequence is not coercive, as is commonly imagined; and that, even though our soul's life (as here below it is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it is not at all impossible, but on the contrary quite possible, that the life may still continue...
Página 55 - ... as if a power from without, quite different from the ordinary action of the senses or of the sense-led mind, came into their life, as if the latter suddenly opened into that greater life in which it has its source. The word "influx...
Página 67 - ... fixed faith that existence in any form is better than non-existence, they ever rescued triumphantly from the jaws of everimminent destruction the torch of life which, thanks to them, now lights the world for us. How small indeed seem individual distinctions when we look back on these overwhelming numbers of human beings panting and straining under the pressure of that vital want! And how...
Página 27 - The supposed impossibility of its continuing comes from too superficial a look at the admitted fact of functional dependence. The moment we inquire more closely into the notion of functional dependence, and ask ourselves, for example, how many kinds of functional dependence there may be, we immediately perceive that there is one kind at least that does not exclude a life hereafter at all. The fatal conclusion of the physiologist flows from his assuming offhand another kind of functional dependence,...
Página 77 - Tis you who are dead, stone-dead and blind and senseless, in your way of looking on. You open your eyes upon a scene of which you miss the whole significance. Each of these grotesque or even repulsive aliens is animated by an inner joy of living as hot or hotter than that which you feel beating in your private breast.
Página 99 - ... does it not follow that when the messages themselves are broken up, the individual feelings will be resolved into still simpler elements ? The force of this evidence is not to be weakened by any number of spiritual bodies. Inexorable facts connect our consciousness with this body that we know; and that not merely as a whole, but the parts of it are connected severally with parts of our brain-action. If there is any similar connection with a spiritual body, it only follows that the spiritual body...