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Page 285 - Principles Of Human Knowledge 1. OBJECTS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.—It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either IDEAS actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination—either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 214 - Thus physical points are indivisible only in appearance; mathematical points are exact, but they are merely modalities. Only metaphysical points or points of substance (constituted by forms or souls) are exact and real, and without them there would be nothing real, since without true unities there would be no multitude.
Page 210 - ... they are necessary to establish true general principles. Aristotle calls them first entelechies ; I call them, more intelligibly perhaps, primary forces, which contain not only the act, or the fulfilment of possibility, but also an original activity.
Page 216 - ... respond to the passions and perceptions of the soul. It is this mutual relation, regulated in advance in each substance of the universe, which produces what we call their communication, and which alone brings about the union of soul and body.
Page 216 - And thus, since our internal sensations, that is, those which are in the soul itself and not in the brain or in the subtle parts of the body, are...
Page 217 - ... produce for itself will naturally correspond to the series of changes in the universe itself ; as, in turn, the body has also been accommodated to the soul, for the encounters where it is conceived as acting outwardly.
Page 213 - And it can be said that everything tends to the perfection not only of the universe in general but also of those creatures in particular who are destined to such a...
Page 217 - Thus once we recognize the possibility of this hypothesis of agreements, we recognize also that it is the most reasonable one, and that it gives a wonderful idea of the harmony of the universe and of the perfection of the works of God.
Page 215 - ... have gone a great way in regard to this problem by showing what cannot possibly take place; but their explanation of what does in fact occur does not remove the difficulty. It is quite true that in the strict metaphysical sense there is no real influence exerted by one created substance on another, and that all things, with all their realities, are continually produced by the power of God: but to solve these problems it is not enough to make use of the general cause, and to drag in what is called...
Page 216 - We can thus understand how the soul has its seat in the body by an immediate presence which could not be greater, since the soul is in the body as unity is in the resultant of unities, which is a multitude.