...following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electrical discharges, if there be such ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding...phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." 19 In the use of such adjectives as "mechanical" and "vital," we are also in danger of taking imaginary...

...; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem,...connected with the facts of consciousness?" The chasm INTRODUCTION. 841 between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable.'...

...be; and were we imtimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem. How are these physical processes connected by and with the facts of conciousness ? I do not think the materialist is entitled to say that his...

...and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling,—we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem,—...phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." In face of an explicit confession of discontinuity like this—discontinuity emerging with the appearance...

...be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem...classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable."2 " We may think over the subject again and again; it eludes all intellectual presentation;...

...result of mechanics." Even were our minds and senses vastly " expanded, strengthened, and illuminated, the chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." " In reality [the molecular groupings and motions] explain nothing. The utmost [the materialist] can...

...result of mechanics." Even were our minds and senses vastly " expanded, strengthened, and illuminated, the chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." " In reality [the molecular groupings and motions] explain nothing. The utmost [the materialist] can...

...and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, — we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem...classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassible." — " So long," says Euskin, " as you have that fire of that heart within you, and know...

...and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, — we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem...phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable." Now manifestly two things cannot possibly be identical, when there is an impassable chasm between them....

...; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem...processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " This paragraph is quoted with approval by John Stuart Mill. Since, then, the passage from the brain...