Rational Psychology: Or, The Subjective Idea and the Objective Law of All IntelligenceG. Y. Van Debogert, 1854 - 717 Seiten |
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Seite 583 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him as one brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons...
Seite 19 - Science must proceed from the phenomenon to the invisible in order to determine what the solar system might be. Again, I take a body of a triangular form, and by accurate mensuration find that any two of its sides are together greater than the third side. Another triangular body, of different size and proportion of its sides, is also accurately measured, and the same fact is again found. The mensuration of the first did not help to the attainment of the fact in the last, but an experiment only ascertained...
Seite 461 - He not only exhibited motives of action before their minds, but disposed their minds to comply with the motives exhibited. But there was no possible way in which he could dispose them to act right or wrong, but only by producing right or wrong volitions in their hearts.
Seite 132 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
Seite 590 - For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him 1 even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Seite 220 - I think," is the highest principle of all cognition, and the faculty in virtue of which we are competent to unite the diverse in one, and, therefore, as in one consciousness, make each representation to be an object as my object. " It is the highest point to which we must attach all use of the understanding ; in fact this is the understanding itself.
Seite 657 - The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear ? 15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge ; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Seite v - ... of all sciences, if ever to be consummated, must at length be perfected. It is intended only as a contribution to the common current of rational philosophic speculation, and is silently cast into the stream of thought to flow on with it if found to be congenial, or to be thrown ashore if it prove only as a foreign cumbering drift upon its surface.
Seite 42 - ... sensation only, and not the object as external, can be immediately in the consciousness. A demonstration of reason, thus, concludes directly against the testimony of universal consciousness. And now, where are we as intelligent beings? Consciousness contradicts reason; the reason belies consciousness. They are each independent sources of human knowledge; unhesitating conviction must follow a clear decision of either ; and yet here they openly and flatly contradict each other.
Seite 42 - All that can be directly known is, that the mind has such sensations" — "but the reason attains the irrefragable conclusion that the sensation only, and not the object as external, can be immediately in the consciousness. A demonstration of reason thus concludes directly against the testimony of universal consciousness. And now where are we as intelligent beings? Consciousness contradicts reason; the reason belies consciousness" — "they openly and flatly contradict each other.