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" ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 460
1868
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate, Volume 69

1869
...connexion." Sothat, even if we were to grant — what is, after all, however, a mere hypothesis — " that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...other. They appear together, but we do not know why." Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the...
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Proceedings and Reports of the Medical and Chirurgical ..., Volumes 84-85

Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1882 - 586 pages
...from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable." Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,...
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The Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 47

1890 - 732 pages
...maintains what he calls "scientific materialism." Nevertheless he feels constrained to say, " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why." ' Or if we turn from English science to...
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ...

1869 - 826 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds ana senses so expanded, strengthened, end illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules...
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Quarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3

1869 - 844 pages
...sense, of thought, or of emotion, a certain definite molecular condition is set up in the brain," but " we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...other. They appear together, but we do not know why. " In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised by us, has...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

1869 - 802 pages
...The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. We do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently...of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other." On these questions " the materialist is helpless. If you ask him, Whence is this matter of which we...
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The Western Journal of Medicine, Volume 4

Theophilus Parvin - 1869 - 802 pages
...possess the intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any endowment of the organ which would enable us to span by a process of reasoning, from the one phenomenon to the other." One thing is always to be regretted in the re -publication of English works by the house to which we...
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Essays on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in Science

John Tyndall - 1870 - 116 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,...
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The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 47

1872 - 648 pages
...the two into juxtaposition" (Spencer's Psychology, p. 158, Am. Ed.). "Granted." says Prof. Tyndall, "that a definite thought and a definite molecular...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why " (Tyndall's Fragments of Science, p. 120)....
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On Intelligence

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 600 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain to tht corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...by a process of reasoning from the one phenomenon tn the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,...
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