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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MIND AND MATTER. Contrast is fundamental to consciousness; and without it our inner experience would be like an external world of one color, or a world where only the roar of Niagara should prevail. Without mind we could not know matter, and without changes of energy or contrast we should not possess mind. Extreme idealists, on the one hand, and short-sighted materialists, on the other, theoretically annihilate the entire universe and themselves by denying the existence of either mind or matter. The attempt to derive mind from matter is no less a failure. The two have evolved together, and are so many general instances of the two-sided experience which, beginning in infancy, extends through life. It is only by relation with other minds and an unyielding outer world that we learn of our existence at all. Without the cooperation of other minds, without language, social fellowship, and experience of natural phenomena, we should be unable to organize and understand our conscious experience: we should have no conscious experience. This fact has great significance for the ethical life. If the mystic in his unwordable transport could at last really throw aside the veil of sense, of finite life and the natural world, and behold the eternal oneness, recognizing himself so that all illusion should vanish, then for him all earthly communication would cease, there would be no earth and no unregenerate with whom to communicate. For the moment he descends to meet, and attempts to clothe his vision in the homely garb of finite speech, he indubitably admits the existence of the world which he hopes to convert and the language whereby he contradicts his own doctrine. In fact, it is characteristic of all who insist that mind or the immediate is the all of being to show by their conduct ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217470490 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217470491 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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