The most prominent and extraordinary phaenomenon which it presents to us is the gigantic strength of the government contrasted with the feebleness of the religious parties.
Surely the uniformity of the phaenomenonindicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause.
The thought of such a phaenomenon cannot well be said to startle the mind:--it palsies and appals it.
The explanation of the possibility of this extraordinary phaenomenon is, however, not so easy; nor is it to be reached by the path of pure psychology, as Cassina supposed.
Those actions that bear the stamp of moral value, so determined, and admitted to be realities, constitute the phaenomenon that lies before us, and which we have to explain.
The =Thing= in itself which underlies this phaenomenon is outside of Time and Space, consequently free from all succession and plurality, one, and changeless.
Hence I, too, am perfectly aware of the paradox which this metaphysical explanation of the ultimate ethical phaenomenon must present to Western minds, accustomed, as they are, to very different methods of providing Morals with a basis.
The former theory we have found to be the actual source of the phaenomenon of Compassion; indeed Compassion is nothing but its translation into definite expression.
The Paper was very black, and the Colours intense and thickly laid on, that the Phaenomenon might be more conspicuous.
But in the Description of these Experiments, I have set down such Circumstances, by which either the Phaenomenon might be render'd more conspicuous, or a Novice might more easily try them, or by which I did try them only.
In the foregoing Experiment the several Intervals of the Teeth of the Comb do the Office of so many Prisms, every Interval producing the Phaenomenon of one Prism.
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Towards the autumn of this year I saw a phaenomenon which struck the superstitious with great terror: it was in effect so extraordinary, that I never remember to have heard of any thing that either resembled, or even came up to it.
Chaineau, who was our second captain, explained the phaenomenon to me.
Some time after my return from New Orleans to the Natchez, towards the month of March 1722, a phaenomenon happened, which frightened the whole province.
The ludicrous, however, in any of its shapes, is a phaenomenon with which M.
Positive Philosophy maintains that within the existing order of the universe, or rather of the part of it known to us, the direct determining cause of every phaenomenon is not supernatural but natural.
Comte says, the naïf reproduction of the phaenomenon as the reason for itself: but it was not so in the beginning.
In the phaenomena of the social state, the collective phaenomenon is more accessible to us than the parts of which it is composed.
When my father was gone with this about a month, there was scarce a phaenomenon of stupidity or of genius, which he could not readily solve by it;--it accounted for the eldest son being the greatest blockhead in the family.
The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space; while it is blended with, and modified by that empirical phaenomenon of the will, which we express by the word Choice.
Of this sheet of paper for instance, as a thing in itself, separate from the phaenomenon or image in my perception.
However novel this phaenomenon may have been in Germany at the time of Gellert, it is by no means new, nor yet of recent existence in our language.
The phaenomenon of imperfect incorporation (an important one) is reducible to the following rules:-- 1.
The rationale of so remarkable a phaenomenon as regularity of accent in verses considered to have been composed with a view to quantity only has yet to be investigated.
As these two last-mentioned circumstances were rare, the general phaenomenon presented in the Greek senarius was the occurrence of either the penthimimer or hepthimimer.
Certain it is, in the last stages of the sea-scurvy, the blood often bursts from the pores; and this phaenomenon is imputed to a high degree of putrefaction: sure enough it is attended with putrefaction.
This last phaenomenon will help us to the explanation of the whole mystery.
Such a phaenomenon must, according to all ancient belief, imply the coming of some great shaking among the powers of the world.
Perhaps there is no other, but, as we have heard rumours of likephaenomenon in Epeiros, a decided negative is dangerous.
However far we look back into history the phaenomenon is identical among all people who have shaken off the slavery of the animal state, the love of appearance, the inclination for dress and for games.
What phaenomenon accompanies the initiation of the savage into humanity?
So remarkable a phaenomenon merits our attention, and must be traced up to its first principles.
In order to account for this phaenomenon it will be necessary to take some compass, and first explain the nature of sympathy.
This I say is the most obvious conclusion; but upon farther examination we shall find that the phaenomenon is otherwise to be accounted for.
For this reason the present phaenomenon will be sufficiently accounted for, in explaining that passion.
The third phaenomenon I have remarked will be a full confirmation of this.
Some may, perhaps, find a contradiction betwixt this phaenomenon and that of sympathy, where the mind passes easily from the idea of ourselves to that of any other object related to us.
In this phaenomenon we may remark the association both of impressions and ideas, as well as the mutual assistance they lend each other.
From these principles we may account for a phaenomenon in the passions, which at first sight seems very extraordinary, viz, that surprize is apt to change into fear, and every thing that is unexpected affrights us.
This phaenomenon may be explained from the same principle.
There is another phaenomenon of a like nature with the foregoing, viz, the superior effects of the same distance in futurity above that in the past.
This phaenomenon is analogous to the system of pride and humility above-explained, which may seem so extraordinary to vulgar apprehensions.
I shall only premise, that we must distinguish exactly betwixt the phaenomenon itself, and the causes, which I shall assign for it; and must not imagine from any uncertainty in the latter, that the former is also uncertain.
The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical.
This phaenomenon would be repeated in English if our numerals ran thus:--1.
South of these lie two branches of a fresh stock, divided from each other, and presenting the difficult phaenomenon of geographical discontinuity conjoined with ethnological affinity.
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