 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 páginas
...Tyndall's famous admissions that "^molecular groupings and molecular motions explain nothing ; " that " the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable ; " and that, if love were known to be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the molecules... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 páginas
...It would be at the bottom not a case of logical inference at all, but of empirical association.* * * The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable (p. 117).* * * In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought as exercised... | |
 | James Martineau - 1878 - 188 páginas
...of feeling and thought. Yet this is precisely the transition which is pronounced " unthinkable ;" " we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...process of reasoning, from the one to the other." If between these statements " nothing but harmony reigns," then indeed I am justly charged with being... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1878 - 196 páginas
...great a mystery that no study can unravel it. The following are the words of Professor Tyndall : — " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; \ve do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1878 - 642 páginas
...connection of body and soul is as insoluble in ils modern form as it was in the prescieutific ages." " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.'' (Fragments of Science, 110.) True, the manner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 páginas
...retracted, and which he will find it hard to refute, should he wish to do so — when he wrote : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomena to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 páginas
...retracted, and which he will find it hard to refute, should he wish to do so — when he wrote : " The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomena to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so... | |
 | Archibald Alexander Hodge - 1879 - 706 páginas
...("Athenaeum" for August 29, 1868) says: "The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding tacts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomenon to the other. ... In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 512 páginas
...the following passage from Dr. Tyndall shows the importance which both attach to the division : — ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the '...unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite mole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do ' not possess the intellectual organ, nor... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 páginas
...the following passage from Dr. Tyndall shows the importance which both attach to the division : — ' The passage from the physics of the brain to the '...unthinkable. ' Granted that a definite thought and a definite niole' cular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do ' not possess the intellectual organ,... | |
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... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem ; but the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness... 
