 ... be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are...  Darwiniana: Essays - Page 162by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Ross - Protoplasm - 1874 - 142 pages
...same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression of molecular changes in that matter...which is the source of our other vital phenomena."* Professor Huxley is not so absurd as to affirm that thought and molecular changes are identical ; but... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...not of a nature to alarm even the most cautious. Thus, when Mr. Huxley maintains that thought is " the expression of molecular changes in that matter...which is the source of our other vital phenomena," we are still as far as ever from knowing where resides the moving cause to which these changes are... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 800 pages
...not of a nature to alarm even the most cautious. Thus, when Mr. Huxley maintains that thought is " the expression of molecular changes in that matter...which is the source of our other vital phenomena," we are still as far as ever from knowing where resides the moving cause to which these changes are... | |
 | Christianity - 1874 - 602 pages
...same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts respecting them, are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of onr other vital phenomena." And what con he do, if he accepts the staIement, but think that the dead... | |
 | Robert Patterson - Apologetics - 1875 - 554 pages
...direction from Jacob's, and to descend with him into the slough of materialism, and affirming that " our thoughts are the expression of molecular changes...life which is the source of our other vital phenomena ; " he goes on to say, that he does not believe in materialism. And he tries to vindicate himself by... | |
 | Joseph Parker - Holy Spirit - 1875 - 438 pages
...must be an eccentric and unmanageable law, — yet according to Mr. Huxley, it is a law, for all " thoughts " are " the expression of molecular changes...which is the source of our other vital phenomena." But seeing that those " changes " are so self-contradictory, not only as between any two individuals... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Evolution - 1875 - 454 pages
...intellectually impassable," and, by means which he states to be logical, arrives at the conclusion, that our " thoughts are the expression of molecular changes...in that matter of life which is the source of our otlier vital phenomena.'" Not having been able to find any clue in Professor Huxley's writings, to... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1875 - 452 pages
...seems not of a nature to alarm even the most cautious. Thus when Huxley maintains that thought is ' the expression of molecular changes in that matter...which is the source of our other vital phenomena,' we are still as far as ever from knowing where resides the moving cause to which these changes are... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1875 - 808 pages
...thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts in regard to them, are the expressions of molecular changes in that matter of life, which is the source of our other vital phenomena." (Lay Sermons, p. 138.) They must be the same changes, or the reasoning is worthless in every step.... | |
 | Robert Lewis Dabney - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 388 pages
...of a ladder which necessarily leads us to the conclusion that thought and volition " are expressions of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of other vital phenomena " in fungi and the lowest animals. This is a specimen of the absurd license of... | |
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