Some Recent Conceptions of Consciousness: Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A second influence which has been at work is the doctrine of evolution. An attitude of mind which views all things under the aspect of development and which explains survival on the basis of a function served has wrought reconstruction in many avenues of thought. It was inevitable that it should finally make its attack upon a concept which hinted at a thing that was ready-made and too far removed from the things of the earth to be taken as serving a function.

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