 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...meant, and now more than ever means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and sensation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. " Confessedly, then, science can tell us nothing of the spiritual; and yet our relation to the spiritual... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1869 - 632 pages
...really spontaneous." " The progress of science has in all ages meant, and now more than ever means, the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." " As surely as every future grows out of past and present, so will the physiology of the future gradually... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Protoplasm - 1869 - 30 pages
...history of science will admit, that its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. 20 I have endeavored, in the first part of tins discourse, to give von a conception of the direction... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...history of science will admit, that its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now, more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. I have endeavoured, in the first part of this discourse, to give you a conception of the direction... | |
 | James Tyson - 1870 - 180 pages
...of science will admit that its object has always meant, and means the extension of the province of matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual...human thought, of what we call spirit and spontaneity, — that is, the object of all science has been and is to find out the causes of all phenomena; and... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Life - 1870 - 56 pages
...means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitantgradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. I have endeavored, in the first part of this discourse, to give you a conception of the direction towards... | |
 | Criticism - 1871 - 774 pages
...express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter.' 'The extension of the province of what we call matter...thought, of what we call spirit and spontaneity.'" After reading this correspondence, we do not wonder that Mr. Huxley was disposed to pass over very... | |
 | Great Britain - 1871 - 674 pages
...towards mental philosophy. Thus he proclaimed that the progress of science " now, more than ever, means the extension of the province of what we call matter...thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity."* Now there are many who anticipate, as the probable fruit of scientific progress, the extension of causation,... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 318 pages
...history of science will admit, that its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now more than ever means, the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. I have endeavored, in the first part of this discourse, to give you a conception of the direction towards... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1871 - 422 pages
...has, in all ages, meant, and now, more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what \ve call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. I have endeavoured, in the first part of this discourse, to give you a conception of the direction... | |
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