...fact I know and law I know; and matter and law have devoured spirit and spontaneity" (p. 142) ; "it is a philosophical impossibility to demonstrate that...phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause" (p. 142) ; " the final object of physiology is to deduce facts from the laws of the molecular forces...

...necessary cause, and that human logic is equally incompetent to prove that any act is really spontaneous. A really spontaneous act is one which, by the assumption,...face of the matter, absurd. ' And while it is thus a philoi sophieal impossibility to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material...

...necessary cause, and that human logic is equally incompetent to prove that any act is really spontaneous. A really spontaneous act is one which, by the assumption,...philosophical impossibility to demonstrate that any given phaenomenon is not the effect of a material cause, any one who is acquainted with the history of science...

...necessary cause, and that human logic is equally incompetent to prove that any act is really spontaneous. A really spontaneous act is one which, by the assumption,...face of the matter, absurd. And, while it is thus a physical impossibility to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause,...

...necessary cause, and that human logic is equally incompetent to prove that any act is really spontaneous. A really spontaneous act is one which, by the assumption, has no cause [ie no material cause, for he admits no other] ; and the attempt to prove such a negative as this is,...

...necessary cause, and that human logic is equally incompetent to prove that any act is really spontaneous. A really spontaneous act is one which, by the assumption,...on the face of the matter, absurd. And while it is thua a philosophical impossibility to demonstrate that any given phaenomenon is not the effect of a...

...human logic to show, that it is at the same time a truly spontaneous action. For such an act is not one which by the assumption has no cause, and the attempt to fasten upon us such a contradiction is on the face of the matter absurd. And while it is thus impossible...

...necessary cause, and human logic is equally incompetent to prove that any act is really spontaneous. A really spontaneous act is one, which (by the assumption)...negative as this is, on the face of the matter, absurd. Progress of science means the gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call...

...necessary cause, and that human logic is equally incompetent to prove that any act is really spontaneous. A really spontaneous act is one which, by the assumption,...attempt to prove such a negative as this, is, on the very face of the matter, absurd. And while it is thus a philosophical impossibility to demonstrate...

...ground than his strange misconception of what is meant by a spontaneous act, — than the fancy that " a really spontaneous act is one which, by the assumption, has no cause." His assertion that " any one who is acquainted with the history of science will admit that its progress...