If the mind has no memory, then much of the phenomena of life is worse than bewildering.
I will, now, before giving you a minute description of our last evening together, commit for your eye my conclusions as to some of the phenomena and facts you have observed.
This defect is often associated in a child with some abnormality in the phenomena of perspiration.
So, he proposed inquiring first Into the various sources whence This Myth of Christ is derivable; Demanding from the evidence, (Since plainly no such life was liveable) How these phenomena should class?
It is therefore impossible, in the present state of our knowledge, to assert that man lived in the southwest of England in the Glacial epoch, to the phenomena of which, if he witnessed them, he must eventually have fallen a victim.
The gradual conversion of these natural phenomena into a good and a malignant power, ever struggling for the mastery, is a forcible illustration of the way in which myths are evolved.
Billerez enunciated a new theory to account for the phenomena presented by the cave.
In order to explain the phenomena presented by those caves, M.
This account was so circumstantial, that the only thing left was to attempt an explanation of the phenomena reported, and such explanations have not been wanting.
There are some curious natural phenomena in this neighbourhood, due to the subterranean courses which the fissured limestone of the Jura affords to the meteoric waters.
This was the only case in which I saw the slightest approach to the phenomena presented in ice-caves.
The idea of cold produced by evaporation Pictet took up warmly, believing that when promoted by rapid currents of air it would produce ice in the summer months; and he thus explained what he understood to be the phenomena of glacières.
I believe that the true explanation of the curious phenomena presented by these caves in general, is to be found in Deluc's theory, fortified by such facts as those which I have now stated.
Footnote 11: It is possible that the freezing of the surface may play a curious part in the phenomena of the spring season in such caves.
One of De Saussure's experiments, in the course of his investigation of the phenomena and causes of cold currents in caves, is worth recalling.
Hope to explain the phenomena of this cave by a reference to the slow penetration of the winter and summer waves of cold and heat.
But it is a fact that there were no more poltergeist phenomenain that house, although the Slippertons went back to it a month or two later and still have the same cook.
I determined to give it all up, to investigate no more phenomena nor attend another séance, nor read a word about psychical research for the remainder of my life.
Naturally, I was glad of the chance to investigate, although I thought it very probable that the phenomena would cease with the departure of the cook.
The phenomena that drove them out of their house at last were of the ordinary poltergeist type that date back to the days of John Wesley.
For, you see, if you have not done that you have not strictly fulfilled all the conditions of the problem; you have not shown that you can produce, by the cause assumed, all the phenomena which you have in nature.
Lamarck was a great naturalist, and to a certain extent went the right way to work; he argued from what was undoubtedly a true cause of some of the phenomena of organic nature.
For, as Mr. Darwin has very properly urged, when we consider the phenomena of sterility, we find they are most capricious; we do not know what it is that the sterility depends on.
But in the next place comes a much more difficult inquiry:--Are the causes indicated competent to give rise to the phenomenaof organic nature?
It is demonstrable, I think, as I have endeavoured to show you, that they are perfectly competent to give rise to all the phenomena which are exhibited by RACES in nature.
The lowest order of phenomena that admit of being classed as visions are the "Number-Forms" to which I have just drawn attention.
Two of them have described the phenomena very forcibly in print, but anonymously, and two others have written on cognate experiences.
No professor of metaphysics, psychology, or religion can claim to know the elements of what he teaches, unless he is acquainted with the ordinary phenomena of idiocy, madness, and epilepsy.
Another inquiry into visions showed that, however ill explained they may still be, they belong for the most part, if not altogether, to an order of phenomena which no one dreams in other cases of calling supernatural.
I do not recollect seeing it remarked that the ordinary phenomena of dreaming seem to show that partial sensitiveness is a normal condition during sleep.
I have now completed as much as I propose to say about the quaint phenomena of Visualised Forms of numbers and of dates, and of coloured associations with letters.
His sublime devotion to the Father whose holy law was trampled under foot, His horror and endurance of human iniquity which culminated in His death, made the experience profoundly terrible.
Is not God He who frustrates the devices of the crafty and confounds the cunning, so that they grope in the blaze of noon as if it were night?
The fates pursued the descendants of an impious man.
And yet, as through openings in a forest, we have glimpses here and there, vaguely and momentarily showing what age it was the author knew.
Foreign they would be to the mind of Job in his strength; but in great disaster the thoughts are apt to fall back on these levels of ignorance and dim efforts to explain, omens and powers intangible.
To be kind to others and to be happy in one's own kindness is not for man so great a benefit, so high a use of life, as to suffer with others and for them.
This matter needs to be considered at some length.
Let every natural power of storm and eclipse draw it back to the void.
The experience of the past was, in this case, a delusion.
It was already a chaotic day, not fit for a man's birth.
The contrast is thus made picturesque between the state of Job lying in loathsome disease and the lot of those who are gathered to the mighty dead.
They suffer with their fellow-men that all may find a way of hope.
In some of the psalms, undoubtedly belonging to an earlier period, the personal cry is heard.
Does it require any adaptation or under-reading of the language of Scripture to prove the harmony of its teaching with the view just given of happiness and suffering as related to punishment?
Why hast Thou set me as Thy stumbling-block, So that I am a burden to myself?
The glory of God in His creation and His unsearchable wisdom are illustrated from the phenomena of the heavens without reference to the previous sections of the address.
Doubt of providence is rebuked by a wide induction from the phenomena of the heavens and of life upon the earth, everywhere disclosing law and care co-operant to an end.
For the psychological student this is established, and the working of evolutionary law is being traced in the obscure phenomena of consciousness, sub-consciousness and habit.
The phenomenaof the universe are but faint adumbrations of the Divine life.
Historians are in quest of laws of development and of generalisations that shall unravel the complexity of human culture, as physical and biological generalisations have put into order our knowledge of the phenomena of nature.
The regularity of the villain system seems entirely opposed to the capricious and disorderly phenomena of free tenure.
In order to explain these phenomena we have to look to earlier and not to later law.
These phenomena have to be considered as exceptional, however, and in fact as a new departure.
In stating these possibilities I must repeat what I said before, that it would be quite wrong to bring all the observed phenomena under one head.
He must be content to shift his ground and vary his analytic method, keeping steadily in mind those factors which by their interaction and combination determine the phenomena he has in view.
Besides the facts of color and light and shade, already mentioned, some further interesting visual phenomena may be mentioned here.
The main visualphenomena are those of color-mixture, after-images, adaptation, and contrast.
All explanations of the many interesting phenomena of vision are to be sought in the physiological action of the eye.
And it is to be noticed that this fashion is accompanied by other phenomena as interesting.
The valley which we followed down probably owes its celebrity to the uncommon phenomena of occasional naked rocks and precipices.
No date can be assigned to the first observation of the phenomena of the process.
An interesting interpretation of the phenomena of fermentation was attempted by Schade [1906] based upon the conception that glucose under the influence of catalytic agents readily decomposes into acetaldehyde and formic acid.
That phenomena of this kind may be involved is shown by the remarkable effect of toluene on the autofermentation of yeast.
The function of hormones in stimulating enzymic change in relation to narcosis and the phenomena of degenerative and regenerative change in living structures/ 127 Proc.
Liebig did not admit that these phenomena were caused by living organisms, nor did he attribute them like Berzelius to the catalytic action of a substance which itself survived the reaction unchanged.
The phenomena then observed are precisely similar to those which occur when a phosphate is added to a fermenting mixture of yeast-juice and excess of sugar as described above.
The organism to which this change was due had hitherto escaped detection, and as we have seen the spontaneous lactic fermentation of milk was one of the phenomena adduced by Gerhardt (p.
Throughout the period of alchemy fermentation plays an important part; it is, in fact, scarcely too much to say that the language of the alchemists and many of their ideas were founded on the phenomena of fermentation.
Prominent among these instances of inhibition and acceleration are the phenomena attendant on the addition of excess of phosphate to yeast-juice.
A brief general description of the actual properties of yeast-juice and of the phenomena of fermentation by its means is sufficient to show the great improbability of this view.
Many valuable ideas as to the nature of fermentation have been obtained by a consideration of the phenomenapresented by the action of yeast on the different hexoses.
The phenomena observed, however, differ markedly from those which accompany the action of phosphate.
It is proverbial that doctors disagree, and it would be wonderful indeed if they were of one mind on the mysterious phenomena of spiritualism.
It has been the habit of the votaries of these systems to assert that scientific men have neglected or declined to investigate the phenomena with attention and candour; but nothing can be farther from the truth.
Its truth is just as indubitable as the truth of the assertion that two phenomena and two other phenomenamake four phenomena.
Physical science, more or less unconsciously, has drifted into the view that all natural phenomena ought to be reduced to motions.
But he will still have to suppose that the time-order of phenomena is determined by characteristics of what is behind phenomena, and this suffices for the substance of our argument.
How man arrives at awareness of this hidden element, as plainly as his ordinary eyes see the phenomena of sense, will be described in a later part of this book.
On the other hand, the phenomena of consciousness retire into the background.
Freedom is the result of the Luciferian influence, and fear and similar feelings are only the phenomena attendant on the evolution of human freedom.
What then results finds physical expression in a circulation of fluids and in phenomena of growth.
Imagination leads him no longer to consider phenomena as the external qualities of beings, but to recognize them as psycho-spiritual emanations; inspiration leads him further into the inner nature of these beings.
Their attention was more directed to earthly phenomena than that of the other Initiates.
The significance of the phenomena does not become less to him who knows, just because, as a spiritual investigator, all superstition is foreign to him.
Things so shape themselves that when the human being is dominated by the Sun influence, he devotes himself more to the Sun life and its phenomena than to himself.
In physical inference I go from phenomena to phenomena; that is, from the knowledge of certain appearances or representations actually present to my mind I infer certain other appearances that might be present to my mind.
The man I see in my dream is a mere machine, a bundle of phenomenawith no underlying reality; there is no consciousness involved except my consciousness, no feeling in the case except my feelings.
One kind of inference is that which is used in the physical and natural sciences, and it enables us to go from known phenomena to unknown phenomena.
The inference of phenomena from phenomena, then, is based upon an assumption of uniformity, which in the present stage of science may be called an atomic uniformity.
And the same thing is true of all inferences of phenomena from phenomena.
What we have said about this first kind of inference, which goes from phenomena to phenomena, is shortly this.
Now there is no possible physical inference, no inference of phenomena from phenomena, that will help me over that gulf.
But they are only the phenomenaof the real history of the race.
Psychologists also tell us that habit, one of the phenomena of consolidation, indicates downward growth.
These phenomena are clearly explained at greater length by Sedley Taylor in Sound and Music (London, 1896), pp.
These phenomena occur much earlier in the anglicized French of England--13th century aveynt (Old French aveient).
It is evident that if the tables were complete, and our notions of the respective phenomena clear, the process of exclusion would be a merely mechanical counting out, and would infallibly lead to the detection of the cause or form.
The same theory has since been applied to man, with this difference that, accompanying the mechanical phenomenaof action, and entirely disconnected with it, are the phenomena of consciousness.
Thus, in all cases, scientific explanation depends upon knowledge of forms; all phenomena or secondary qualities are accounted for by being referred to the primary qualities of matter.
But even supposing that this method were accurate and completely unfolded, it is evident that it could only be made applicable and produce fruit when the phenomena of the universe have been very completely tabulated and arranged.
The most noteworthy outcome of this system in the realm of religious practice was, as already intimated, the growth of an elaborate and complicated method of divining the future by the observation of the phenomena in the heavens.
Moral and politicalphenomena are the result of the opposing forces of progress and preservation, and their perfection lies in the fulfilment of the law of equilibrium or universal harmony.
Phenomena of this kind play a large part in primitive ceremonies of divination (q.
The development of phenomena under this law may be divided into three stages--the physical, the physiological, the intellectual and moral.
Starting with this belief the priests built up the theory of the close correspondence between occurrences on earth and phenomena in the heavens.
This noise explains the phenomena of the baxos roncadores (snoring bocabeoos), so well known to navigators who cross from Jamaica to the mouth of Rio San Juan of Nicaragua, or to the island of San Andres.
The cessation of the breezes, the setting-in of the rainy season, and the frequency of electric explosions, are phenomena which are found to be connected together by immutable laws.
Igneous phenomena (if their existence be really well certified) are attributed by the people to the granitic peaks of Duida and Guaraco, and also to the calcareous mountain of Cuchivano.
This unequal distribution of land and water has the greatest influence on the distribution of heat over the surface of the globe, on the inflexions of the isothermal lines, and the climateric phenomena in general.
The contact of layers of air of unequal temperature produces the most varied phenomena of suspension and mirage from ten in the morning till four in the afternoon.
In New Hanover, New Cornwall and New Norfolk these rents of a rocky coast are repeated, these geologic phenomena of the fjords that characterize western Patagonia and Norway.
I do not pretend to explain, by the same causes, the great phenomena of the coast of Sweden, where the sea has, on some points, the appearance of a very unequal lowering of from three to five feet in one hundred years.
And, in consequence of this, must we not think there are no such things as physical or corporeal causes; but that a Spirit is the immediate cause of all the phenomena in nature?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phenomena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
