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Page 219 - ... an potius non essem nisi essem in te, ex quo omnia, per quem omnia, in quo omnia?
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Page 184 - And feeling and will must also be transmuted in this whole, into which thought has entered. Such a whole state would possess in a superior form that immediacy which we find (more or less) in feeling ; and in this whole all divisions would be healed up. It would be experience entire, containing all elements in harmony.
Page 267 - It thus appeared, that both Macaulay and my father were wrong ; the one in assimilating the method of philosophizing in politics to the purely experimental method of chemistry ; while the other, though right in adopting a deductive method, had made a wrong selection of one, having taken as the type of deduction, not the appropriate process, that of the deductive branches of natural philosophy, but the inappropriate one of pure geometry...
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Page 140 - Yet the acknowledgment so explicitly made, has not prevented one set of writers from continuing to represent the syllogism as the correct analysis of what the mind actually performs in discovering and proving the larger half of the truths, whether of science or of daily life, which we believe: while those who have avoided this inconsistency, and followed out the general theorem respecting the logical value of the syllogism...
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Page 21 - I have tried to show that one form of idealism is quite compatible with that materialistic monism which is now-a-days the working hypothesis of every scientific explorer in every department, whatever other beliefs or denials he may, more or less explicitly and more or less consistently, superadd.