...matter, we should be bound to accept the first of these conclusions as the simplest, and as affording a hypothesis most in accordance with the comprehensiveness...phenomena of matter there is not only no analogy, bnt there is no conceivable analogy ; and the obvious and continuous path which we have hitherto followed...

...first of these conclusions" — that thought is a property of living matter — " as the simplest. But between thought and the physical phenomena of...no analogy, but there is no conceivable analogy." — In an equally sober and philosophic spirit, a distinguished German professor had previously remarked,...

...should bejustified in accepting the first of these conclusions as the simplest, and as affording a hypothesis most in accordance with the comprehensiveness of natural laws ; but between thought and tie physical phenomena of matter there is not only no analogy, but there is no conceivable analogy...

...which precludes a comparison of the properties of living matter with those of lifeless. However, . . . between thought and the physical phenomena of matter...conceivable analogy, and the obvious and continuous path . . . here comes suddenly to an end. The chasm between unconscious life and thought is deep and impassable,...

...innumerable other mental activities can none of them be conceived of as qualities of matter. " Between [such] thought and the physical phenomena of matter there...no analogy, but there is no conceivable analogy." 2 The soul of man is more than an ordinary product of material organization. It is a regal power, and...

...sober leading of plain common sense, to that M The language of Prof. Allman is very unhesitating : " Between thought and the physical phenomena of matter there is not only no analogy but no conceivable analogy." " Address to British Association," loc. cit. When we pass from a statement...

...should be justified in accepting the first of these conclusions as the simplest, and as affording a hypothesis most in accordance with the comprehensiveness...followed up in our reasonings from the phenomena of life^ less matter through those of living matter here comes suddenly to an end. The chasm between unconscious...

...justiGed in the first of these conclusions (ie, that of materialism) as the simplest, nnd as ail'ordimr a hypothesis most in accordance with the comprehensiveness...phenomena of matter there is not only no analogy, but no conceivable analogy ; and the obvious and continuous path which we have hitherto followed lip in...

...justified in the first of these conclusions (ie, that of materialism) as the simplest, and as affording a hypothesis most in accordance with the comprehensiveness...phenomena of matter there is not only no analogy, but no conceivable analogy ; and the obvious and continuous path which we have hitherto followed up in...

...the first of these conclusions t/./•., that of materialism) as the simplest, and a» affording a hypothesis most in accordance with the comprehensiveness...phenomena of matter there is not only no analogy, but no conceivable analogy ; and the obvious and continuous path which we have hitherto followed up in...