This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...are bewildering and mostly illogical; because they are based upon mechanical atomism, which denies the existence of vital force. Buechner advanced the formula which most all of them repeat in different words. He says, "Thought, spirit, soul, are nothing material, not themselves body; they are the complex of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...are bewildering and mostly illogical; because they are based upon mechanical atomism, which denies the existence of vital force. Buechner advanced the formula which most all of them repeat in different words. He says, "Thought, spirit, soul, are nothing material, not themselves body; they are the complex of homogenous forces grown together to a unity." He adds then, "At least we would not know, how to define spirit or force except as something immaterial, something which excludes matter and is its opposite." This is the oracle of the English scientists and also of Mr. Spencer. Life being a complex of homogenous forces grown together to a unity, of course, there is no vital force. Philosophically, this is impossible, for things immaterial can not grow together and form a unity, as growing together means the connection of all points in two surfaces. Souls, spirits, thoughts cannot possible grow together. Physically, the theory is overthrown by the constancy of each force in the parallelogram of forces. If life was a complex of forces, each of them must be traceable in the process. But life is not sound, heat, attraction, or electricity; none of which is discoverable in the principle which maintains the identity of the individual, notwithstanding all other natural forces working against it and effecting its dissolution as soon a life departs. Evidently we have before us in every living organism a force which governs the others for this specific purpose. Every constant relation of elements or bodies to one another, points to an overruling force in action for this specific purpose. In the organic kingdoms, the immense variety of elementary relations to form and sustain here a tree, there a shrub, here an herb and there a blade of...
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