 It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion, or to oppose and neutralize force, which gives us this internal conviction of power and causation, so far as it refers to the material world...  A Treatise on Astronomy - Page 221by John Frederick William Herschel - 1834 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Universalism - 1889 - 540 pages
...with will, directed by intelligence and influenced by motives. It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion, or oppose and neutralize force which gives us the internal conviction of power and causation, so far as... | |
 | Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert - 1848 - 162 pages
...the human mind as that of the existence of an external world it is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion,...this internal conviction of power and causation." * It appears from this, that Sir John Herschel is impressed with the idea that the definition of Causation,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...of no common merit in the annals of this branch of philosophy. It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion,...that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear paths and changed in their velocities if... | |
 | University magazine - 1849 - 788 pages
...says Sir John Herschel, in his beautiful • Treatise1 on Astronomy," "our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion, or to oppose and neutralise force, which gives us this internal conviction of power and causation, so far as it refers... | |
 | j. stevenson bushnan, m.d. - 1851 - 206 pages
...of no common merit in the annals of this branch of philosophy. It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion,...that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear paths, and changed in their velocities if... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1853 - 608 pages
...of no common merit in the annals of this branch of philosophy. It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion,...which gives us this internal conviction of power and cauta1 Princip. Lex. i. OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY. as it refers to the material world, and compels us to... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1871 - 396 pages
...following words, which have been criticised by Mr. Bain. He says,* " It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion, or to oppose and neutralise force, which gives us this internal conviction of pou-er and causation, so far as it refers... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1857 - 608 pages
...common merit in the annals of this branch of philosophy. It is our own immediate consciousness of >forl, when we exert force to put matter in motion, or to...force, which gives us this internal conviction of poicer and cavsa' Princip. Lex. i. * See Brown " On Cause and Effect," — a work of great acuteness... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Consciousness - 1859 - 702 pages
...of no common merit in the annals of this branch of philosophy. It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion,...that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear paths, and changed in their velocities if... | |
 | Christianity - 1882 - 662 pages
...says that ' it is our own immediate consciousness of effort when we exert force to put matter into motion, or to oppose and neutralize force which gives...that whenever we see material objects put in motion ... or deflected if already in motion, it is iu consequence of such an effort somehow exerted, though... | |
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