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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...he studiously leaves on the minds of his medical hearers the impression that because he can explain certain morbid affections of the mind by bodily causes, especially at the critical periods of life, therefore he can account, by physiological processes, for the production of all our ideas, sentiments, beliefs, and judgments. He is for ever denouncing the old metaphysics, and all who would study the mind by self-consciousness, or internal observation. Psychology cannot, in fact, be truly inductive, unless it is studied objectively; that is, physiologically, in the brain and nervous system. He acknowledges, No one pretends that physiology can, for many years to come, furnish the complete data of a positive mental science: all that it can at present do is to overthrow the data of a false psychology. I agree with him that physiology has not been able to construct a mental science; and I believe it will never be able to do so,--though it may, and I believe will, greatly aid those who examine the mind by self-consciousness. But he thinks it has undermined the views entertained by those attached to the old psychology. In particular, he thinks that he can show that self-consciousness deceives. This is a bold attempt, and has seldom been made by any philosopher. David Hume himself was too shrewd to try to cast doubts on the veracity of consciousness. Dr. Maudesley''s charges of falsity against self-consciousness proceed on an entire misapprehension of the nature of the testimony which it gives. He makes the witness lie, only by perverting his declarations and making him say what he never said. Consciousness can never be a valid and unprejudiced witness; for although it testifies to the existence of a particular mental modification, yet, when... James Mccosh, Books, Religion and Spirituality, Christianity And Positivism; A Series Of Lectures To The Times On Natural Theology And Apologetics Books>Religion and Spirituality This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: R. Carter in 1874 in 392 pages; Subjects: Christianity; Natural theology; Apologetics; Positivism; Philosophy / Religious; Religion / Christian Life / General; Religion / Philosophy; Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics; Religion / Theology;<

ISBN: 9780217457552

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. Limits To The Law Of Natural Selection. - This Worlli A Scene Of Struggle. - Appearance Of Spiritual Life. - Final Cause. - New Life. - Unity And Growth In The World. - Higher Products Coming Forth. - Signs Of Progress. nrHERE are clear indications, in the Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. Limits To The Law Of Natural Selection. - This Worlli A Scene Of Struggle. - Appearance Of Spiritual Life. - Final Cause. - New Life. - Unity And Growth In The World. - Higher Products Coming Forth. - Signs Of Progress. nrHERE are clear indications, in the geological ages, of a progression from the inanimate up to the animate, and from the lower animate to the higher. The mind, ever impelled to seek for causes, asks how all this is produced. The answer, if answer can be had, is to be given by science, and not by religion; which simply insists that we trace all things up to God, whether acting by immediate or by mediate agency. Mr. Darwin would refer it all to the somewhat vaguely enunciated principle of Natural Selection, or the preservation of the creatures best suited to their circumstances, and the success of the strong in the struggle of life. That this principle is exhibited in nature, and working to the advancement of the plants and animals from age to age, I have no doubt. We see it operating before our eyes every spring, when we find the weak plant killed by the frosts of winter, and thestrong surviving and producing a progeny strong as itself. But it has not been proven that there is no other principle at work. I am not satisfied that this principle has produced life out of dead matter, that it has produced sentient beings out of insentient, that it has wrought the conscious mind from the unconscious body, that it has generated man from the brute. There is no positive proof that it has so much as produced a new species of animals out of old ones. In regard to this latter point, it seems to account for some of the phenomena, but leaves others unexplained. In particular, there are gaps in the geological ages between the Books, History~~General, Christianity-and-positivism~~James-McCosh, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<