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The gap between 'the State' and 'a machine' is not so wide.
Man on his Nature (1940)
A vast number, perhaps the numerical majority, of animal forms cannot be shown unequivocally to possess mind.
Man on his Nature (1940)
Biology cannot go far in its subject before being met by mind.
Man on his Nature (1940)
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.
Man on his Nature (1940)
The scientific journey has no end. It has only halting places—points at which the traveller can look round and survey.
Man on his Nature (1940)
Mind, for anything perception can compass, goes therefore in our spatial world more ghostly than a ghost. Invisible, intangible, it is a thing not even of outline; it is not a 'thing'. It remains without sensual confirmation, and remains without it for ever.
Man on his Nature (1940)
[A]s followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.
Man on his Nature (1940)
Science is the fruit of patient toil, sifting out facts and in search of more facts. It has no tilt against religion as such. It knows its own field to be vast, but also knows it limited.
Man on his Nature (1940)