This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... trace, in the rough, the process of creation. By virtue of the quite recent discoveries of Dr. M. von Schroen, professor in pathology at the University of Naples, Italy, it is scientifically Subjective science now takes up the investigation with a view to discover sometliing of the nature of this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... trace, in the rough, the process of creation. By virtue of the quite recent discoveries of Dr. M. von Schroen, professor in pathology at the University of Naples, Italy, it is scientifically Subjective science now takes up the investigation with a view to discover sometliing of the nature of this instinct, or primal cause, and the soul's relation thereto. It discovers that feeling, as sensation of pain and pleasure, evolves into emotion, and that one of its specializations aspires to attain some end, or creates ideals. In response to these desires the soul adds intelligence to direct, and will to persist in the attainment of these desires. That all these phases of activity grow in response to the need of this instinctive potency to attain more fully than it has yet attained, seems to be a legitimate conclusion. The working principle of evolution is that changes come as the need of these changes becomes imperative. Investigation of the act by which the soul, as intellect, can judge and so learn how to direct its aspiration to the attainment of its object, reveals a process so new and wonderful as to place the being who can do this thing far above any other class of beings that has appeared upon the earth. By this new process the instinctive soul of the world comes into consciousness of itself. It can project itself as object, and at the same time identify this object with itself as subject. Such an act no lower order of being can perform. The product is the judgment "I am myself." The name "I am" was given by the Jews to the Supreme Being; as if they regarded the making of this judgment a symbol of supreme power. This power to know the self involves the power to know any single attribute of the self by the same processa as "I am..."
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