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How can a past idea be present?... it can only be going, infinitesimally past, less past than any assignable past date. We are thus brought to the conclusion that the present is connected to the past by a series of real infinitesimal steps.
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The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
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A finite interval of time generally contains an innumerable series of feelings; and when these become welded together in association the result is a general idea.
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In deduction the mind is under the dominion of a habit or association by virtue of which a general idea suggests in each case a corresponding reaction. This is the way the hind legs of a frog separated from the rest of the body, reason, when you pinch them. It is the lowest form of psychical manifestation.
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Born:
September 10, 1839
Died:
April 19, 1914
(aged 74)
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