 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains,...would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. But if VOL. n. T by consciousness we perceived any power or energy in tho will, we must... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbit 5 this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. But... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 546 pages
...influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter? Were we empowered, by a se,cret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbits; .this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...INFLUENCE OVER A MATERIAL ONE, THAT THE MOST REFINED THOUGHT IS ABLE TO ACTUATE THE GROSSEST MATTER ? WERE WE EMPOWERED, BY A SECRET WISH, TO REMOVE MOUNTAINS, OR CONTROL THE PLANETS IN THEIR ORBITS, THIS EXTENSIVE AUTHORITY WOULD NOT BE MORE EXTRAORDINARY NOR MORE BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION."... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...INFLUENCE OVER A MATERIAL ONE, THAT THE MOST REFINED THOUGHT IS ABLE TO ACTUATE THE GROSSEST MATTER ? WERE WE EMPOWERED, BY A SECRET WISH, TO REMOVE MOUNTAINS, OR CONTROL THE PLANETS IN THEIR ORBITS, THIS EXTENSIVE AUTHORITY WOULD NOT III. MORE EXTRAORDINARY NOR MORE BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION."... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...prove that they also are possessed of it." — EDITIONS K. h. is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains,...would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. But if, by consciousness, we perceived any power or energy in the will, we must know... | |
 | Plato - 1854 - 352 pages
...secret wish, to remove mounIMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 179 tains, or control the planets in their orbits, this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. — David Hume. Death is the great divider, but it is of things that are divisible.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter 1 Were we empowered, hy a secret wish, to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbits, this extensive author!/y imu/d not he more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprenension."... | |
 | John Henry Freese - 1864 - 292 pages
...influence over a material one that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter? Were we empowered by a secret wish to remove mountains...enlightened age ; when he might have been informed that this inexplicable phenomenon was, after all, the result of the most simple contrivance, arising from nothing... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - 1867 - 352 pages
...incomprehensible than the union of mind and body — the most refined thought actuating the grossest matter? Were we empowered by a secret wish to remove mountains, or control the planets in their orbits, this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension."... | |
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... is there any principle in all nature more mysterious than the union of soul with body; by which a supposed spiritual substance acquires such an influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter ? Were... 
