Recent Discussions in Science, Philosophy, and MoralsD. Appleton, 1871 - 234 Seiten |
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Seite 40 - long legs,' etc. ; and for ' round,' they said ' like a ball,' ' like the moon,' and so on, usually suiting the action to the word, and confirming, by some sign, the meaning to be understood...
Seite 50 - Now in ancient languages every one of these words had necessarily a termination expressive of gender, and this naturally produced in the mind the corresponding idea of sex, so that these names received not only an individual, but a sexual character. There was no substantive which was not either masculine or feminine ; neuters being of later growth, and distinguishable chiefly in the nominative.
Seite 82 - The second and third groups supply subject-matter to the first, and the third supplies subject-matter to the second ; but none of the truths which constitute the third group are of any use as solvents of the problems presented by the second group ; and none of the truths which the second group formulates can act as solvents of problems contained in the first group.
Seite 64 - Space is the abstract of all relations of co-existence. Time is the abstract of all relations of sequence. And dealing as they do entirely with relations of co-existence and sequence, in their general or special forms, Logic and Mathematics form a class of the Sciences more widely unlike the rest, than any of the rest are from one another.
Seite 82 - The three groups of Sciences may be briefly defined as — laws of the forms; laws of the factors ; laws of the products. And when thus defined, it becomes manifest that the groups are so radically unlike in their natures, that there can be no transitions between them ; and that any Science belonging to one of the groups must be quite incongruous with the Sciences belonging to either of the other groups, if transferred. How fundamental are the differences between them, will be further seen on considering...
Seite 14 - ... were organized in the race during barbarous times, when its pleasurable activities were chiefly among the woods and waters. And out of all these excitations, some of them actual but most of them nascent, is composed the emotion which a fine landscape produces in us.
Seite 230 - Primitive Man. Illustrated with thirty Scenes of Primitive Life, and 233 Figures of Objects belonging to Prehistoric Ages. By Louis FIOUIER, author of " The World before the Deluge," " The Ocean World,
Seite 44 - Hence, in proportion as the animals, plants, and inanimate objects or agents that originate names of persons, Become numerous (which they will do in proportion as a tribe becomes large and the number of persons to be distinguished from one another increases), multitudinous things around will acquire imaginary personalities. And so it will happen that, as Mr.
Seite 230 - ... and impartial reading. The work, indeed, is not only a valuable one on account of the opinions it expresses, but it is also most serviceable as a book of reference. It offers an able and exhaustive table of a vast array of facts, which no single student could well obtain for himself, and it has not been made the vehicle for any special pleading on the part of the author.
Seite 48 - dialects spoken at the present day which have no abstract nouns, and the more we go back in the history of languages, the smaller we find the number of these useful expressions " (" Chips,