The freedom of my thought and action guarantees to me the immateriality of my soul, and is that which distinguishes me from the brute.
Thus robbed of its substantiality, the soul has no further claims to immateriality and immortality, and suicide ceases to be a crime.
Thus, he well saw and well stated the immateriality of thought.
It must be owned that the firm belief of Descartes in the immateriality of the Ego or thinking principle, was accompanied with what in later times would have been deemed rather too great concessions to the materialists.
Johnson thinks that Milton should have secured the consistency of this poem by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Few perhaps at present who believe in the immateriality of the human soul, would deny the same to an elephant; but it must be owned that the discoveries of zoology have pushed this to consequences which some might not readily adopt.
We need, in the first place, no ghost from hell to assure us that the immortality of the soul follows necessarily from the immateriality of the soul; for that is demonstrable from reason, and was generally believed by the heathen.
In his Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) he sets forth his famous demonstration of the immateriality of the external world, of the spiritual nature of the soul, and of the all-ruling and direct providence of God.
He saw that immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action; he therefore invested them with form and matter.
This, being necessary, was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
No conscious monotheism, and but little idea of immateriality discoverable.
Of course no one need demand that a strict immateriality be attached to these words.
By his advice Drew committed the work to the press, with the title, "The Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul.
Drew on the Immortality and Immaterialityof the Soul.
He could not deny the fact that they exhibited marvelous power over disease, but their immateriality staggered his faith at times, in spite of all that he had seen and experienced.
The old familiar look of incredulity crept into their eyes when they came to an understanding of the immateriality of the dose.
Will it allow any other inference than that it has no existence; that immateriality is a quality hitherto unproved; the idea of which the mind of man has no means of compassing?
Can we conceive that immateriality could ever draw matter from its own source?
But," says he, "the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immaterialityout of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
This is easily said; but what if Milton could not seduce his readers to drop immateriality from their thoughts?
Since therefore God is in the highest degree ofimmateriality as stated above (Q.
Therefore, the angel's immateriality is the cause why it is incorruptible by its own nature.
Therefore it is clear that the immateriality of a thing is the reason why it is cognitive; and according to the mode of immateriality is the mode of knowledge.
So also the intellect, according to its own mode, receives under conditions of immateriality and immobility, the species of material and mobile bodies: for the received is in the receiver according to the mode of the receiver.
The immateriality of the created intelligent substance is not its intellect; and through its immateriality it has the power of intelligence.
Wherefore he concluded that the things which we understand must have in themselves an existence under the same conditions of immateriality and immobility.
He ultimately rejected the immortality and immateriality of the soul, argued for necessitarianism, and earned considerable unpopularity by the boldness of some of his sentiments on political as well as theological matters.
And therefore it is not of such mighty necessity to determine one way or the other, as some, over-zealous for or against the immateriality of the soul, have been forward to make the world believe.
The idealists, all those who believe in the immateriality and immortality of the human soul, must be excessively embarrassed by the difference in intelligence existing between races, peoples, and individuals.
The abyss which separates soul from body, absoluteimmateriality from absolute materiality, is infinite.
The belief in God, pure spirit and creator of the world, and the belief in the immateriality of the soul remained untouched.
Nowadays we have greatly refined our notion of materiality and substantiality; but there were even some among the Fathers of the Church to whom the immateriality of God Himself was not a thing so clear and definite as it is for us.
It suffices that as the spirit is differentiated from the body by the immateriality of its essence, so the intellect should be differentiated from the sense by the immateriality of its cognoscitive power.
The immaterialityof light had been substantially demonstrated, but practically no one save its author accepted the demonstration.
But, for that matter, the experiments that had established the mechanical equivalent of heat hardly left room for doubt as to the immateriality of this "imponderable.
Rumford showed that heat may be produced in indefinite quantities by friction of bodies that do not themselves lose any appreciable matter in the process, and claimed that this proves the immateriality of heat.
It is the existence of this thinking principle which clearly proves the immateriality of the mind or spirit.
