 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1829 - 316 pages
...and arranged them there in such beautiful order ? But the body of man, that seems the chef-d'oeuvre of nature, is not comparable to his soul. Whence comes...Scriptures represent God, in the creation, to have said, " Let there be light, and there was light," so the voice of my soul speaks, and my body obeys.... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1831 - 314 pages
...composition of matter, whence is it that this matter, which did not think yesterday, begins to think to-day 1 Who is it that has given it what it did not before...Scriptures represent God, in the creation, to have said, "Let there be light, and there was light," so the voice of my soul speaks, and my body obeys.... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1831 - 312 pages
...composition of matter, whence is it that this matter, which did not think yesterday, begins to think to-day 1 Who is it that has given it what it did not before...Scriptures represent God, in the creation, to have said, "Let there be light, and there was light," so the voice of my soul speaks, and my body obeys.... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1841 - 330 pages
...The spirit has no recollection of making any compact with matter. Nevertheless, it is certain,.that it is dependent on the body, and that it cannot be...Scriptures represent God, in the creation, to have said, " Let there be light, and there was light," so the voice of my soul speaks, and my body obeys.... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1844 - 358 pages
...together, by a correspondence and in a civil subjection that is incomprehensible ? ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. The empire of my mind over my body is despotic to...Scriptures represent God, in the creation, to have said, " Let there be light, and there was light," so the voice of my soul speaks, and my body obeys.... | |
 | François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (abp. of Cambrai.) - 1850 - 284 pages
...power over both these natures, has imposed this yoke upon them, and held them captive in a connection so nice and so inviolable ? Can any one say, Chance...Scriptures represent God, in the creation, to have said, " Let there be light, and there was light," so the voice of my soul speaks, and my body obeys.... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1864 - 386 pages
...power over both these natures, has imposed this yoke upon them, and held them captive in a connection so nice and so inviolable ? Can any one say, Chance...Scriptures represent God, in the creation, to have said, " Let there be light, and there was light ; " so the voice of my soul speaks, and my body obeys.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 462 pages
...distinct substances, what power superior to both these different natures has bound them together ? Who, with a supreme empire over both, has sent forth his...subjection that is incomprehensible ? The empire of the mind over the body is despotic to a certain extent, since simple will can move every member by... | |
 | 1900 - 470 pages
...distinct substances, what power superior to both these different natures has bound them together ? Who, with a supreme empire over both, has sent forth his...subjection that is incomprehensible ? The empire of the mind over the body is despotic to a certain extent, since simple will can move every member by... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 466 pages
...distinct substances, what power superior to both these different natures has bound them together? Who, with a supreme empire over both, has sent forth his...subjection that is incomprehensible ? The empire of the mind over the body is despotic to a certain extent, since simple will can move every member by... | |
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Suppose even that thought resulted from a certain configuration and arrangement and motion of matter ; what workman has discovered these just and nice combinations, so as to make a thinking machine ? If, on the contrary, the soul and the body are two... 