 Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of force, is that out of which the idea of Matter is built. Matter as opposing our muscular energies, being immediately present to consciousness in terms of force ; and its occupancy of Space being known...  Essays and Criticisms - Page 146by St. George Jackson Mivart - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1862 - 528 pages
...resistance-attribute of Matter must be regarded as primordial and the space-attribute as derivative. Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of force, is that out...correlations, form the whole content of our idea of Matter. Such being our cognition of the relative reality, what are we to say of the absolute reality ? We can... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 538 pages
...resistance-attribute of Matter must be regarded as primordial and the space-attribute aa derivative. Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of force, is that out...correlations, form the whole content of our idea of Matter. Such being our cognition of the relative reality, what are we to say of the absolute reality ? We can... | |
 | Theology - 1865 - 912 pages
...realities," he goes on to resolve all these ideas into force, or effects and derivatives of force. " Forces standing in certain correlations, form the whole content of our idea of matter." — P. 288. This being so, and our ideas of space being first suggested in connection with matter or... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1870 - 600 pages
...resistance-attribute of Matter must be regarded as primordial and the space-attribute as derivative. Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of force, is that out...correlations, form the whole content of our idea of Matter. Such being our cognition of the relative reality, what are we to say of the absolute reality ? We can... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 588 pages
...the space-attribute as derivative. Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of,/e;:«?,_isjthat out of which the idea of Matter is. built. Matter...correlations, form the whole content of our idea of Matter. Such being our cognition of the relative reality, what are we to say of the absolute reality ? We can... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1872 - 602 pages
...yhipli ft"?-fdpa nf Mntt"r T°buHt." - Matter as opposing our muscular energies, being imme3iately present to consciousness in terms of force ; and its...correlations, form the whole content of our idea of Matter. Such being our cognition of the relative reality, what are we to say of the absolute reality ? We can... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1873 - 602 pages
...resistance-attribute of Matter must be regarded as primordial and the space-attribute as derivative. Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of force, is that out of which the idea of Hatter is built. Matter as opposing our muscular energies, being immediately present to consciousness... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1875 - 810 pages
...had previously said, "our experience of force is that out of which the idea of matter is built, .... that forces, standing in certain correlations, form the whole content of our idea of matter." But the relative reality, matter, implies an absolute reality, which is said to be " some mode of the unknowable,... | |
 | Criticism - 1875 - 822 pages
...disclosure of analysis," or the ultimate type of all force, (pp. 235, 236.) He had previously said, " our experience of force is that out of which the idea of matter is built, .... that forces, standing in certain correlations, form the whole content of our idea of matter."... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1875 - 820 pages
...disclosure of analysis," or the ultimate type of all force, (pp. 235, 236.) He had previously said, " our experience of force is that out of which the idea of matter is built, .... that forces, standing in certain correlations, form the whole content of our idea of matter."... | |
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