Nature and Life: Facts and Doctrines Relating to the Constitution of Matter, the New Dynamics, and the Philosophy of Nature (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Fernand Papillon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330526619 ISBN 13: 9781330526613

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Nature and Life: Facts and Doctrines Relating to the Constitution of Matter, the New Dynamics, and the Philosophy of Nature

The thinker who freely seeks for truth, continuously changes his position in his aspirations toward mind and the ideal. He deserts the regions of phenomena and concrete things, to rise to those of the absolute and eternal. The farther he withdraws from the former, which had at first absorbed all his attention, the more strikingly does the perspective in which he viewed them alter. At last, he discerns nothing else in them but spectres without substance, and delusive phantoms. And in the degree and extent of his drawing near to the eternal and the absolute, reality comes more surely within his ken, and he gains a more vivid feeling and a keener conception of it. He measures the distance he has traversed, and values the worth of his own contem plations by the fullness of lucid clearness which enlight ens his faint view of the first principles of things, and by the depth of humble reverence with which he bows before the mysterious Power which created all!

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Excerpt from Nature and Life: Facts and Doctrines Relating to the Constitution of Matter, the New Dynamics, and the Philosophy of Nature This volume contains a series of essays written and published at different times, some of a general character, and others more special, and all relating to the activity of natural forces, especially those of life. The mere bringing together of these fragments has presented an opportunity of completing a methodical and uniform whole, combining exactness in details with generality of doctrines, and distinctly tracing the precise aspect of each group of phenomena in the picture of the close and universal relations that bind the whole together. An exposition is thus offered under an elementary form, in language freed from technical dress, of the most essential truths established of late by physics, chemistry, and biology, regarding the mechanism of natural forces, and the arrangement and combination of the fundamental springs of being in the world, especially in the living world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330526619
• ISBN 13: 9781330526613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388