 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their... | |
 | Joseph Parker - Holy Spirit - 1875 - 438 pages
...reality. A cause is not that which produces an effect but simply that which uniformly precedes it. We are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement." If we inquire into materialism... | |
 | Thomas Harper - Metaphysics - 1881 - 798 pages
...falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity V So, again, he describes men as being ' a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement 2.' ' They are the successive perceptions... | |
 | Thomas Harper - Metaphysics - 1881 - 798 pages
...falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity1.' So, again, he describes men as being ' a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement 2.' ' They are the successive perceptions... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...claimed to perceive, he goes on to say : — Uut setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and arc in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their... | |
 | James Hibbert - 1880 - 96 pages
...removed for any time, as by sound sleep, so long am I insensible of myself. ... I may venture to affirm of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions." * But the price paid by Materialism for this kind of defence is, indeed, not less than that which the... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 404 pages
...therefore you know no power, whether spiritual or material: the mind, says Hume, reveals itself only as a " bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux or movement." And again, " the true idea of... | |
 | Samue Harris (D.D.) - Theism - 1892 - 606 pages
...principle in me. But setting aside some meta• Lay Sermons : Descartes, p. 359. physicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that...different perceptions which succeed each other."* This position of Hume has found distinguished defenders at the present day. JS Mill says: "Mind is... | |
 | Henry Footman - Apologetics - 1883 - 166 pages
...ventured to affirm that we have. He tells us that setting aside certain metaphysicians, he ventures to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement. The mind, continues the great sceptic,... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. " But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...collection of different perceptions, which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . The mind... | |
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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. 
