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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
“The convertibility of the physical forces, the correlation of these with the vital, and the intimacy of that nexus between mental and bodily activity, which, explain it as we may, cannot be denied, all lead upward towards one and the same conclusion,—the source of all Power in mind; and that philosophical conclusion is the apex of a pyramid, which has its foundation in the primitive instincts of humanity.”
—Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Mental Physiology, chap. xx.“Causation is the Will, Creation the Act, of God.”
—W. R. Grove, Essay on the Correlation of Physical Forces.The small philosopher is a great character in New England. His fundamental rule of logical procedure is to guess at the half, and multiply by two. God be thanked for the diffusion of knowledge! God save us from the attendant temporary evils of arrogant sciolism in democratic ages! These are a necessary transitory stage in the progress of popular enlightenment which has just begun to dawn in this yet dim Western world. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; and it is our boast that, in America, every man has a little knowledge. We must drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; but every breathlessly hurried free citizen now is endeavouring, to his honour, to have a taste at least; and yet we know how mercilessly commerce and greed, and the toil for daily bread, wrench parched lips away from the deep draught.
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