 We are conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused term — inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken...  Studies in Theism - Page 189by Borden Parker Bowne - 1879 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1875 - 844 pages
...symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata, endowed with freewill in the only intelligible sense...— inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... | |
 | Charles Elam - Evolution - 1876 - 186 pages
...weaker brethren, he qualifies it immediately by saying that the automaton is ' endowed with free will, in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused...term ; inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like.' ' An ' automaton endowed with free will ' is certainly a pleasing and interesting novelty... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...weaker brethren, he qualifies it immediately by saying that the automaton is " endowed with free will, in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused...term ; inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like."* An " automaton endowed with free will " is certainly a pleasing and interesting novelty... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - Theism - 1879 - 464 pages
...saying * that though man is only a conscious automaton, still he is " endowed with freewill iirthc only intelligible sense of that much-abused term;...remembering that this term, in Mr. Huxley's mouth, is only a pleasing rhetorical novelty, for the automaton is admitted to be able to do what it likes.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Culture - 1881 - 372 pages
...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused...— inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 354 pages
...the brain which is the immediate canse of that act. We are conscious antomata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused...— inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of canses and effects which, in unbroken... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - Apologetics - 1892 - 560 pages
...writes Mr. Huxley, " conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of this much-abused term, inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like ; but, none the less, parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... | |
 | American periodicals - 1875 - 880 pages
...Si of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata, endowed with freewill in the only intelligible sense...— inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1901 - 456 pages
...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused...— inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1904 - 652 pages
...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata, endowed with free will in the only intelligible sense of that much-abused...— inasmuch as in many respects we are able to do as we like, — but none the less parts of the great series of causes and effects which, in unbroken... | |
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