 | Herbert Mayo - 1849 - 158 sider
...that the cases, in which I suppose it manifested, are of too trivial a nature to justify so novel an hypothesis. My answer is, the cases are few and trivial...piece of amber when rubbed would attract light bodies? The school of physiological materialists will of course be opposed to it. They hold that the mind is... | |
 | Herbert Mayo - 1849 - 164 sider
...manifested, are of too trivial a nature to justify so novel an hypothesis. My answer is, the case§ are few and trivial only because the subject has not...piece of amber when rubbed would attract light bodies? The school of physiological materialists will of course be opposed to it. They hold that the mind is... | |
 | 1849 - 700 sider
...scepticism notwithstanding. "The school of psychological materialists will, of course, b* opposed to this. They hold that the mind is but a function or product of the brain, and cannot therefore admit consistently its separate action. ... If mind be the product of brain, it must be the conversion... | |
 | Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) - 1883 - 384 sider
...the bodily person." He remarks that : — " It will be said the cases, in which I suppose this power manifested, are of too trivial a nature to justify...mind is but a function or product of the brain."* As we have stated in the Report, we have been anxious to accumulate and sift experimental evidence... | |
 | William Alfred Hovey - 1885 - 218 sider
...the cases in which I suppose this power manifested are of too trivial a nature to justify so novel an hypothesis. My answer is, the cases are few and trivial...that the mind is but a function or product of the brain."1 As we have stated in the Report, we have been anxious to accumulate and sift experimental... | |
 | 1893 - 942 sider
...says that his theory will be held to rest on " few and trivial instances." " That," he roplies, " is only because the subject has not been attended to....of amber, when rubbed, would attract light bodies ! " Messrs. Gurney and Myers have used the same illustration. It is clear that Mayo is the modern inventor... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1894 - 906 sider
...says that his theory will bo held to rest on " few and trivial instances." " That," he replies, " is only because the subject has not been attended to....of amber, when rubbed, would attract light bodies !" Messrs. Gurney and Myers have used the same illustration. It is clear that Mayo is the modern inventor... | |
 | 1894 - 880 sider
...says that his theory will be held to rest on " few and trivial instances." " That," he replies, " is only because the subject has not been attended to....of amber, when rubbed, would attract light bodies!" Messrs. Gurney and Myers have used the same illustration. It is clear that Mayo is the modern inventor... | |
 | Sinclair Tousey - 1915 - 1418 sider
...static electricity. Thales, one of the seven wise men of Greece, was the first to call attention to the fact that a piece of amber when rubbed would attract light bodies. This was in 600 B. c., but no special importance was attached to the fact. About 300 B. c. Theophrastus... | |
 | Sinclair Tousey - 1921 - 1372 sider
...electricity.2'3 Thales, one of the seven' wise men of Greece, was the first to call attention to the fact that a piece of amber when rubbed would attract light bodies. This was in 600 B. c., but no special importance was attached to the fact. About 300 B. c. Theophrastus... | |
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I suppose it manifested, are of too trivial a nature to justify so novel a hypothesis. My answer is, the cases are few and trivial only because the subject has not been attended to. For how many centuries were the laws of electricity preindicated by the... 