 | Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 580 pages
...of minus nought — there will be nought to fear for our ever diverging. For you see I am quite as ready to admit your doctrine that souls secrete bodies...materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity — the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter. Cabanis... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1901 - 576 pages
...foundation of minus nought—there will be nought to fear for our ever diverging. For you see I am quite as ready to admit your doctrine that souls secrete bodies as I am the opposite one that bodies secrete souls—simply because I deny the possibility of obtaining any evidence as to the truth and falsehood... | |
 | 1902 - 830 pages
...had evidence of it, but without evidence wHat is a man to do ? Nevertheless he is no materialist. " My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is...materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity — the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter." And... | |
 | 1908 - 596 pages
...as they are destructive, but I laugh at their beards as soon as they try to spin their own cobwebs. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is...materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity — the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter." îjjttmfenb... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 274 pages
...the rule which works so well in practice, of always making the simplest possible suppositions." . . . "My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is...materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity — the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter" (Huxley,... | |
 | George Washington Carey, Inez Eudora Perry - 1920 - 184 pages
...foundation of minus naught—there will be naught to fear for our ever diverging. For you see, I am quite as ready to admit your doctrine that souls secrete bodies as I am the opposite one that bodies secrete souls—simply because I deny the possibility of obtaining any evidence as to the truth or falsehood... | |
 | William Newton Clarke - 1920 - 160 pages
...he had evidence of it, but without evidence what is a man to do ? Nevertheless he is no materialist. "My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is...materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity — the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter." And... | |
 | George W. Carey, Inez E. Perry - 2020 - 186 pages
...admit your doctrine that soul!; secrete bodies as I am the opposite one that bodies secretssouls — simply because I deny the possibility of obtaining any evidence as to the truth or falsehood of either hypothesis. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism... | |
 | ARTHUR KENYON ROGERS - 1923 - 498 pages
...thing in the world about how the matter ultimately stands. "You see," Huxley writes, "I am quite as ready to admit your doctrine that souls secrete bodies...possibility of obtaining any evidence as to the truth or falsehood of either hypothesis. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1922 - 492 pages
...secrete souls, — simply because I deny the possibility of obtaining any evidence as to the truth or falsehood of either hypothesis. My fundamental axiom...materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity — the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter." However... | |
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I am quite as ready to admit your doctrine that souls secrete bodies as I am the opposite one that bodies secrete souls — simply because I deny the possibility of obtaining any evidence as to the truth and falsehood of either hypothesis. 
