Human immortality, two supposed objections to the doctrine. Repr1917 |
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Human immortality, two supposed objections to the doctrine. Repr William James Visualização integral - 1917 |
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abstract anatomists brain-action brain's func centres connection consequence continuous convolutions crests discontinuity duction-theory ductive function entity eternal exceed exist expressed fact Fechner's feeling always goes fibres finite Flechsig frontal functional dependence gastric juice Heaven hereafter human idea impressions individual Ingersoll lecture INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP inner significance kind of function Leipzig light limited lives logic lower mankind material materialistic matter mental metamorphosis Mind of transcendental mysteries natural nerve-glow nerves ness NOTE notion pantheistic particular pathologists personal form phenomena philosophy physiological physiologists possible preëxists production-theory prophet clad psycho psycho-physical activity psycho-physical threshold psychology quantitative imagination rise scenes sciousness sensation simple psychic resultant single sort soul soul's Sphinx spiritual body stream of feelings stream of nerve-messages strict logic suppose sure tality theist theory number theory of production things thought tion transcendental Idealism transmission-theory transmissive function truth under-wave unified or simple universe veil viscus wave-scheme wavelets whole
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Página 26 - 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 69 - 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 67 - How this metamorphosis takes place ; how a force existing as motion, heat, or light can become a mode of consciousness...
Página 57 - First. In carrying out the wishes of my late beloved father, George Goldthwait Ingersoll, as declared by him in his last will and testament, I give and bequeath to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where my late father was graduated, and which he always held in love and honor, the sum of Five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a fund for the establishment of a Lectureship on a plan somewhat similar to that of the Dudleian lecture, that is — one lecture to be delivered each year, on any convenient...
Página 27 - Admit now that our brains are such thin and half-transparent places in the veil. What will happen? Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass...
Página 58 - ... 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 and three fourths of the annual interest thereof to be paid to the lecturer for his services and the remaining fourth to be expended in the publishment and gratuitous distribution of the lecture, a copy of which is always...
Página 22 - ... 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 when the brain itself is dead. 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...
Página 22 - 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 when the brain itself is dead.
Página 50 - T is 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 23 - When the physiologist who thinks that his science cuts off all hope of immortality pronounces the phrase, " Thought is a function of the brain," he thinks of the matter just as he thinks when he says, " Steam is a function of the teakettle," " Light is a function of the electric circuit," " Power is a function of the moving waterfall.