 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...phrase from Newmarket, hedged when he had made his book, by quietly defining the substantive ' matter ' as ' a name for the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness." Mr. Spencer has stopped this earth in which his friend would fain take refuge, by the well-warranted... | |
 | 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 718
...which others may find their way out of the materialistic slough. In his own words it is this : — " After all, what do we know of this terrible ' matter,' except as a name for an unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness f And what do wo know of that... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 30
...before the hideous idols their own hands have raised. For, after all, what do we know of this temblé " matter," except as a name for the unknown and hypothetical...lamentation is arising, like that which was heard at the deatli of Pan, except that it is also a name for an unknown and hypothetical cause, or condition, of... | |
 | 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...from the abyss into which he is apparently about to plunge them, he suddenly turns round and asks, " After all, what do we know of this terrible matter,...hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness? What do we know of spirit, except that it is also a name for an unknown and hypothetical cause or condition... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 998
...freedom ; they are alarmed lest man's moral nature be debased by the increase of his wisdom. . . . But, after all, what do we know of this terrible ' matter,'...except as a name for the unknown and hypothetical cause 244 PROFESSOB HUXLEY. 245 of states of our own consciousness? And what do we know of that ' spirit... | |
 | Charles Elam - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena. . . . After all, what do we know of that ' spirit ' over whose threatened...extinction by matter a great lamentation is arising, . . . except that it is a name for an unknown and hypothetical cause or condition, of states of consciousness... | |
 | 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...materialism, while he denies that he assents to the materialistic philosophy. " After all," he says, " what do we know of this terrible ' matter,' except as a name for the unknown hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness ? And what do we know of that ' spirit," over... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...; and we confess we have given it up in despair, for, after all, the whole phenomenon may be but " the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness ; " and then of course it would be best to follow Professor Huxley's " wise advice," and " not trouble ourselves... | |
 | 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 692
...material j and we confess we have given it up in despair, for, after all, the whole phenomenon may be but "the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness ; " and then of course it would be best to follow Professor Huxley's " wise advice," and " not trouble ourselves... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...the heathen, and falling down in terror before the hideous idols their own hands have raised. For, after all, what do we know of this terrible " matter,"...hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness ? And Avhat do we know of that " spirit" over whose threatened extinction by matter a great lamentation is... | |
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For, after all, what do we know of this terrible " matter," except as a name for the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness ? And what do we know of that 
