Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    resistance to our imagination and our will, and, secondly, that in particular it offers absolute re- sistance to all attempts to change its quantity.’ Frederick Fairbank.—While agreeing gener- ally with what has just been said, I yet object to the manner in which Sir Kenneth has brought together the three words time, space, and sensation, as if each were independent of the others. I think I can conceive of a being with no impression of space, while I feel sure I cannot conceive of a being without some im- pression of time. I can, for instance, conceive a man in good health to be so comfortably placed —let us say in bed, in the dark, that virtually he is not brought into contact with any external reality. He is not even conscious of having a body, because he experiences no such in- equality of sensation as might recall this cir- cumstance to his mind. On the other hand, not being engrossed with any fatiguing train of thought, he is equally unconscious of having a head and brain. And yet the very circum- stance of his conscious existence and enjoyment
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