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"When the body of the lower soul dies," says Fechner, "the higher soul takes it up out of its life of contemplation into its life of reminiscence." The souls of perished creatures shall, therefore, form the elements of the soul-life of the earth.

— Bernhard Riemann Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)

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Natural science is the attempt to comprehend nature by precise concepts.

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There remains only the assumption that the ponderable masses within the rigid earth-crust are supporters of the soul-life of the earth.

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Every entering mind-mass excites all related mind-masses and this excitation is the more powerful the more insignificant the diversity of their inner states (quality).

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Newton was far from the crude thought that explanation of phenomena could be attained by abstraction.

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With every simple act of thinking, something permanent, substantial, enters our soul.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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