 I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit, consciousness, which, in the hardness of my heart or head, I cannot see to be matter or force, or any conceivable modification of either, however intimately...  The American Catholic Quarterly Review - Page 203edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1895 - 634 pages
...Huxley fail to allow room for the Ego. ' In the first place,' he observes, ' it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...force, or any conceivable modification of either.' Furthermore, relying on Descartes and Berkeley, to him it seems that 'our one certainty is the existence... | |
 | Science - 1886 - 982 pages
...persisting in my infidelity. In the first place, as I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...consciousness, which, in the hardness of my heart or head, I can not see to be matter or force, or any conceivable modification of either, however intimately the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1893 - 564 pages
...persisting in my infidelity. In the first place, as I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...of the phenomena of consciousness may be connected w1th the phenomena known as matter or force. In the second place, the arguments used by Descartes and... | |
 | 1887 - 732 pages
...persisting in my infidelity. In the first place, as I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...be matter or force, or any conceivable modification uf either, however intimately the m anifeslation of the phenomena of consciousness may he connected... | |
 | Central Conference of American Rabbis - Jews - 1891 - 1032 pages
...motion. On this head Professor Huxley writes in his inimitable style : " It seems to me pretty plain, that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit, consciousness, which in the hardness of my heart and head I cannot see to be matter, or force, or any conceivable modification of either, however intimately... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Agnosticism - 1892 - 648 pages
...persisting in my infidelity. In the first place, as I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...connected with the phenomena known as matter and force. In the second place, the arguments used by Descartes and Berkeley to show that our certain knowledge... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1892 - 648 pages
...persisting in my infidelity. In the first place, as I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...heart or head, I cannot see to be matter or force, o any conceivable modification of either, however intimately the manifestations of the phenomena of... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Capital - 1894 - 380 pages
...persisting in my infidelity. In the first place, as I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...connected with the phenomena known as matter and force. In the second place, the arguments used by Descartes and Berkeley to show that our certain knowledge... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1895 - 634 pages
...Huxley fail to allow room for the Ego. ' In the first place,' he observes, ' it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...force, or any conceivable modification of either.' Furthermore, relying on Descartes and Berkeley, to him it seems that 'our one certainty is the existence... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Evolution - 1896 - 352 pages
...the truth, than in the quotation just given, when he wrote thus : — ' It seems to me pretty plain, that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit,...force, or any conceivable modification of either.' The manner in which Darwin opens his chapter entitled * Comparison of the mental powers of man and... | |
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