 | 1875 - Страниц: 608
...Nature in the abstract is the aggregate of the powers and properties of all things. Nature means the snm of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce...a part of the idea of Nature, as those which take effect. Since all phenomena which have been sufficiently examined are found to take place with regularity,... | |
 | Ransom Bethune Welch - 1876 - Страниц: 320
...on " Nature," he says : " The nature of a thing means its entire capacity of exhibiting phenomena. Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them." Thus, in common with all phenomenalists, he fully recognizes both the principle and the terminology... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 898
...on " Nature," he says : " The nature of a thing means its entire capacity of exhibiting phenomena. Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them." Thus, in common with all phenomenalists, he fully recognizes both the principle and the terminology... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1877 - Страниц: 446
...Illustrations of t/te Influence of the Mind upon the Body. By DANIEL HACK TUKE, MD, MRCP Philadelphia. 1873. " Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with...much a part of the idea of nature as those which take effect. —John Stuart Milt. BARRING causes, material and fundamental, the providence which shapes... | |
 | Atheistic platform - 1884 - Страниц: 204
...it has two important meanings. In its large and philosophical sense it means, as Mr. Mill says : " The sum of all phenomena, together with the causes...capable of happening — the unused capabilities of matter being as much a part of the idea of Nature as those which take effect." But the word Nature... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - Страниц: 338
...properties, so Nature in the abstract is the aggregate of the powers and properties of all things. Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with...causes which produce them ; including not only all 65 that happens, but all that is capable of happening ; the unused capabilities of causes being as... | |
 | James Bonar - 1893 - Страниц: 438
...shows how widely the 19th century is removed from the opinions of the 18th. " Nature " (he tells us) " means the sum of all phenomena together with the causes...that happens but all that is capable of happening " (p. 5). In this sense, it includes Art, for "Art 1 Jas. Mill is said by his son to have been the... | |
 | James Bonar - 1893 - Страниц: 440
...shows how widely the 1 9th century is removed from the opinions of the 18th. " Nature " (he tells us) " means the sum of all phenomena together with the causes...that happens but all that is capable of happening " (p. 5). In this sense, it includes Art, for "Art 1 Jas. Mill is said by his son to have been the... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 804
...proceeding from differing schools of thought. According to Stuart Mill, in one of his posthumous essays, " Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them." Understanding there what we call secondary causes, Mill's definition is not more sweeping than Martineau's,... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - 1895 - Страниц: 340
...feeling and change of feeling, or objectively, as agent and action " ; and Mill defined " nature " as " the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes...that happens, but all that is capable of happening". It is not certain that the Theist expresses any very clear idea to himself when he uses the words "matter"... | |
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Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them ; including not only all that happens, but all that is capable of happening... 
