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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.

— Charles Scott Sherrington Man on his Nature (1940)

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The gap between 'the State' and 'a machine' is not so wide.

Man on his Nature (1940)

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It is difficult to get a hearing from busy men for even a great new truth.

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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.

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