This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...themselves to their own rich and ample domain. I acknowledge that there are means of reaching truth other than mere experiment. Mental, as well as material facts, are to be observed and weighed by those who would reach the higher and deeper verities of nature. Some truths are known by intuition, and called ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...themselves to their own rich and ample domain. I acknowledge that there are means of reaching truth other than mere experiment. Mental, as well as material facts, are to be observed and weighed by those who would reach the higher and deeper verities of nature. Some truths are known by intuition, and called first truths; some are reached by deduction, as in mathematics; and more by a judicious combination of intuition, induction, and deduction. But let these methods, and the principles or facts they employ, be distinguished in the mind of the investigator, and be kept separate in the exposition of his views. The mixing of these things leads to their being confounded, and the issue is utter confusion. How profound the wisdom in the warning of Bacon, " This folly is the more to be prevented and restrained, because not only fantastical philosophy, but heretical religion, spring from the absurd mixture of things divine and human!" Bacon maintained that men could go beyond mere material and efficient causes to other and higher, --to final and formal. But he allotted these last to a separate department. While he confined physics to material and efficient causes, he reserved for metaphysics the inquiry into the final and formal. Combining the other allowable modes of inquiry with the experimental, we may discover great principles overlooked by Tyndall, but having a deep foundation in nature. Let us look at some of these..'/ Intelligence. Dr. Tyndall refers to some great man not named by him. "Did I not believe," said a great man to me once, " that an Intelligence is at the heart of things, my life on earth would be intolerable." Surely Dr. Tyndall's acquaintanceship must be confined to a very small circle, if he has only met...
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