Natural Evidence of a Future Life ...: A Contribution to Natural Theology Designed as a Sequel to the Bridgewater Treatises ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1840 - 372 páginas |
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Página 357 - Shall I be told that thought is inconsistent with matter ; that we cannot conceive how medullary substance can perceive, remember, judge, reason ? I acknowledge that we are entirely ignorant how the parts of the brain accomplish these purposes...
Página 281 - The body is constantly undergoing change in all its parts. Probably no person at the age of twenty has one single particle in any part of his body which he had at ten ; and still less does any portion of the body he was born with continue to exist in or with him. All that he before had has now entered into new combinations, forming parts of other men, or of animals, or of vegetable or mineral substances, exactly as the body he now has will afterwards be resolved into new combinations after his death....
Página 281 - The strongest of all the arguments both for the separate existence of mind, and for its surviving the body, remains, and it is drawn from the strictest induction of facts. The body is constantly undergoing change in all its parts. Probably no person at the age of twenty has one single particle in any part of his body which he had at ten ; and still less does any portion of the body he was born with continue to exist in or with him. All that he before had has now entered into new combinations, forming...
Página 282 - Here, then, we have that proof so much desiderated — the existence of the soul after the dissolution of the bodily frame with which it was connected. The two cases cannot, in any soundness of reasoning, be distinguished...
Página 282 - But again, if the strongest argument to show that the mind perishes with the body, nay, the only argument be, as it indubitably is, derived from the phenomena of death, the fact to which we have been referring affords an answer to this. For the argument is that we know of no instance in which the mind has ever been known to exist after the death of the body. Now here is exactly the instance desiderated, it being manifest that the same process which takes place on the body more suddenly at death is...
Página 281 - ... nearly all the body is changed, it follows that the existence of the mind depends not in the least degree upon the existence of the body ; for it has already survived a total change of, or, in the common use of the words, an entire destruction of that body. But, again, if the strongest argument to show that the mind perishes with the body, nay, the only argument be, as it indubitably is, derived from the phenomena of death, the fact to which we have been referring affords an answer to this. For...
Página 282 - ... more gradually, but as effectually in the result, during the whole of life, and that death itself does not more completely resolve the body into its elements and form it into new combinations than living fifteen or twenty years does destroy, by like resolution and combination, the self-same body. And yet after those years have elapsed and the former body has been dissipated and formed into new combinations, the mind remains the same as before, exercising the same memory and consciousness, and...
Página 358 - How different is this from all the preceding notions ! No efforts can avoid or conceal the vast but inscrutable chasm. Those theorists, who have maintained most strenuously the possibility of tracing the phenomena of animal life to the influence of physical agents, have constantly been obliged to suppose a mode of agency altogether different from any yet known in physics.
Página 357 - I be told that thought is inconsistent with matter: that we cannot conceive how medullary substance can perceive, remember, judge, reason ? I acknowledge that we are entirely ignorant how the parts of the brain accomplish these purposes — as we are how the liver secretes bile, how the muscles contract, or how any other living purpose is effected ; — as we are how heavy bodies are attracted to the earth, how iron is drawn to the magnet, or how two salts decompose each other.
Página 68 - ... greater change than that which takes place on the decomposition of water, and the conversion of its tasteless and salubrious liquid particles into an inflammable, invisible, and noxious gas, and into a solid body combined with iron. No annihilation could appear to be more complete than that of the water in this process to those who are ignorant of the nature of the phenomenon : and yet, when that is known, it affords one of the strongest proofs of the indestructibility of matter. The changes...