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PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND First Series THE FOUNDATIONS OF A CREED VOL. 1 LONDON - TRüBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL 1874 Authors who, from today's perspective and in the face of current research, were far ahead of their time were often misunderstood or simply ignored by their contemporaries. And even if an excerpt from an extensive work is always subjective, it still offers a middle ground between subsuming under a catchphrase on the one hand, and intensive preoccupation with the author and his work on the other. If you want to deal intensively with the work, please refer to www.archive.org, where the full version is available for free.
First published in 1874, 'Problems of Life and Mind' is a landmark work of 19th century philosophy. In this first volume, George Henry Lewes presents a comprehensive analysis of the nature of human consciousness and the foundations of knowledge. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of philosophy, psychology, or science. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...and deeper validity than the perceptions and conceptions which arise from individual experiences. Neither observation nor reflection warrants the supposition that the infant, in spite of inheritance, has on entering the world innate ideas of Space, Time, Causation; what is innate, or connate, is the structure which will react under stimulus in certain definite ways; and these reactions will depend on the degree of development which the structure has acquired. The infant whose optical organs are imperfect will never react on the stimulus of light in the same way as another infant whose organs are more developed. At birth no child sees. It usually takes several days before the child makes any movement of the head towards the light, and four or five weeks before he learns to converge the axes of both eyes. But could the infant see at birth, this would not indicate that the perception of Space or of external objects was innate; only that the structure was ready for its function; and how that structure came to be formed would still remain a question. And there is one argument which is decisive. Even if we assume, with the advocates of creation, that the structure was not evolved through modifications impressed on organic substance by successive adaptations of the Organism to the external Medium--that the eye, for example, was created, and not evolved by the action of light upon the sensitive surface--created with all the powers which it is known to manifest, --still there would remain the necessity of this eye being brought into the appropriate relation with the external object; and in the absence of this, in the absence of light to call the energy of the eye into existence, there would be no visual perception, much less an idea of Space. Nor..
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