Swain School Lectures |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract ALFRED BINET amid animals answer appear Aristotelian logic ascertained aspects become believe botanists Bunyanese ceptions cerned class-relations classes Cloth color common conception consciousness DAVID HUME Descartes discern doshes earth elements English language epicures epistemologist exact logic exchange existence experience expression eyes fact fancy fellows forms gold GOSPEL OF BUDDHA gostak GUSTAV FREYTAG Hegel human ideas imagination implied inferences intellection intelligence involved Kant knowl knowledge material MAX MÜLLER meaning ments merely meta metaphysical metaphysician mind motion nature nerve never objects old logic old logicians origin PAUL CARUS perhaps phenomena philosophers possible principles problem promise propositions psychical psychologist psychology question reality relation requital resemblances result scientist sciousness sensations sense silver sounds speech stand stones suppose syllogisms symbols talk theory things thought thousands tions to-day universe utterance Visible Speech word
Popular passages
Page 124 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 152 - How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all.
Page 143 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 83 - They have inquired and considered little, and do not always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others; and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false.
Page 136 - We do not often have occasion to speak, as of an indivisible whole, of the group of phenomena involved or connected in the transit of a negro over a rail-fence with a melon under his arm while the moon is just passing behind a cloud.
Page 143 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 158 - O YOU chorus of indolent reviewers, Irresponsible, indolent reviewers, Look, I come to the test, a tiny poem All composed in a metre of Catullus, All in quantity, careful of my motion, Like the skater on ice that hardly bears him, Lest I fall unawares before the people, Waking laughter in indolent reviewers. Should I flounder awhile without a tumble Thro...