Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- I Nature and Tradition
- II The Natural and Superstition
- III Life in Little
- IV The Wisdom of the Body
- V Earth's Reshuffling
- VI A Whole Presupposed of its Parts
- VII The Brain and its Work
- VIII The Organ of Liaison
- IX Brain Collaborates with Psyche
- X Earth's Alchemy
- XI Two Ways of one Mind
- XII Conflict with Nature
- Index
X - Earth's Alchemy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- I Nature and Tradition
- II The Natural and Superstition
- III Life in Little
- IV The Wisdom of the Body
- V Earth's Reshuffling
- VI A Whole Presupposed of its Parts
- VII The Brain and its Work
- VIII The Organ of Liaison
- IX Brain Collaborates with Psyche
- X Earth's Alchemy
- XI Two Ways of one Mind
- XII Conflict with Nature
- Index
Summary
I want…finally to enquire whether any signs of unitary purpose can be found in History.
W. R. Inge, God and the Astronomers, p. 125.The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
H. A. L. Fisher, Preface to The History of Europe.Had I been present at the birth of this planet I would probably not have believed on the word of an Archangel that the blaming mass, the incandescent whirlpool there before our eyes at a temperature of 30 million degrees would presently set about the establishment of empires and civilisations, that it was on its way to produce Greek art and Italian painting.…
W. Macneile Dixon, The Human Situation, Gifford Lectures, Glasgow, 1935–7.Our topic of last time asked if and how it is that our thinking is correlated with our brain. If Natural Theology argue from the facts of Nature to a Divine Scheme to which they may point, then that question seems germane to our theme. It lies at the threshold of human approach to the whole Natural Scheme. Especially does it do so when we occupy the viewpoint traditionally taken by the physician and the naturalist, thus by our physician-philosopher, Jean Fernel, and long before him by his master Aristotle, namely, that man is a part of Nature.
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- Man on his Nature , pp. 293 - 322Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1940