Dualism and Monism, and Other EssaysW. Blackwood and sons, 1895 - 221 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
absolute abstract actual actual infinity admit alleged anthropomorphic appears become ception coexistence common-sense conceived conception concrete conscious subject consciousness and extension contradiction Croyance et Réalité Dauriac Descartes distinct Divine doctrine dualism Dugald Stewart essential existence experience fact feeling finite formula ground Hamilton Hegel Hence history of philosophy human idea ideal identity implies independent individual infinite intuition J. S. Mill knowledge Leibniz logical Malebranche matter meaning metaphysical mind monads Monism moral nature necessarily necessary ness never notion noumenon object opposed opposition pantheism perceived perception percipient personality pheno phenomenal reality phenomenon position possible pure qualities question realised reason regarded relation res cogitans res extensa sciousness sensations sense soul space sphere spirit subsists substance successive supposed Theism theory thing-in-itself things thought tion transcendent true truth unconscious unity universal Veitch vidual whole wholly words Wordsworth
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Página xxxvi - As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree ; Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.
Página 179 - Of unknown modes of being ; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Eemained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields ; But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.
Página xxxi - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Página 217 - Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Página 187 - If each most obvious and particular thought, Not in a mystical and idle sense, But in the words of Reason deeply weighed, Hath no beginning.
Página 192 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Página 186 - I was only then Contented, when with bliss ineffable I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still; O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart...
Página 175 - I recognise thy glory:" in such strength Of usurpation, when the light of sense Goes out, but with a flash that has revealed The invisible world...
Página 197 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
Página 175 - The invisible world, doth greatness make abode, There harbours; whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be.