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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: our modern physical inquirers escaped the tendency, for they speak of nature, force, gravity, motion, as if they were entities, acting independently of the objects whose action and mode of action they express. 14. Corollary-It is of great importance to trace up abstractions to the concrete 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: our modern physical inquirers escaped the tendency, for they speak of nature, force, gravity, motion, as if they were entities, acting independently of the objects whose action and mode of action they express. 14. Corollary-It is of great importance to trace up abstractions to the concrete objects from which they are derived. We should thus be saved from the two opposite errors iuto which we are apt to fall: the error of thoso who regard abstractions as nonentities, and that of those who give them a distinct being. By following them up to the substances, whether mental or material, from which they are taken, we shall see that they have a reality, and we shall find what is the nature of that reality. Gravitation has no reality distinct from matter, but it has a reality in the stars and planets which it holds in their spheres. Nature is not a separate agency, but is a name for the combined system of things falling under our view in the world. Beauty is a reality, as our esthetic sentiments testify; but has no embodiment except in some beautiful object, though the foolish laudations of some might lead us to think that she has a personality of her own, which she may one day or other reveal to some enraptured boy-poet, or painter, provided he could rise to a sufficiently ecstatic state. Virtue has no separate existence in some ethereal sphere, as we might be tempted to think by the way in which some speak of it; but it has a reality in the voluntary acts of beings possessed of intelligence, conscience and free will. The Alexandrian mystics recommended us to rise to the contemplation of the One and the Good: all very useful and important, we say, provided we seek for it, where alone we can find it, in the One Living and Good God. 13. We cannot close the subject Books, Literary Collections~~General, The-Laws-Of-Discursive-Thought~~James-McCosh, 999999999, The Laws Of Discursive Thought, James Mccosh, 1163091081, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 1163091081

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