The Final Science: Or Spiritual Materialism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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We have special advantages for the culture of this system. If in the land where it recently flourished so luxuriantly, materialism, like a certain bird, buries its head, there is still enough left for those who hanker after such things and it is not the head which charms them. By sedulously avoiding those pursuits which have endangered the divinity of matter abroad, we can firmly establish its throne and secure its reign. There are certain notions which dissolve the rocks on which it rests into quicksands they must accordingly be shunned as dangerous. Thus where the German philosophers cultivate the reason, let our philosophic giants cultivate sensation while their minds work ac cording to fixed laws which evolve the categories of thought, let our great minds be blank sheets of paper, passively receiving impressions from things; where they have ideas which are Platonic and remind one of the war between N ominalists and Realists, let our thinkers produce Systems in which ideas are Simply the representations of outward objects, and it will soon become evident that our purely sensualistic philoso phy furnishes a sufficiently solid basis for materialism.

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