Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...a male duality of intellective and affective principles which constitute a perceptive region, from which are derived by intuition the laws which are combined in all the phenomena belonging to the particular department of knowledge to which it is appropriated, and also the moving or incentive power that leads to its pursuit as an object of science; it being the scientific character of this region that constitutes it vital. The second region contains a female duality of intellectual and affectional principles which constitute a receptive region, from which the power and inclination are derived of accumulating a knowledge of phenomena, which is simply a knowledge of appearances, and is sensualistic in character; the first associating ideas with reference to the relations of cause and effect, of premises and conclusion, and of recognized relationship; and the second associating phenomena with reference to accidental, casual, and arbitrary relationships. This region is relatively destructive, because the knowledge acquired by it presents the appearance without realizing the condition of real knowledge, and is thus deceptive in character; and because it leads the individual, through the desire for admiration, and for the possession of what seems to be knowledge, to neglect or to sacrifice the acqui-sition of true wisdom by reflection in the consciousness. The third region is constituted by an active and refle&ive principle which is conceptive and constructive, from which the power and inclination are realized of adapting means to ends, causes for the production of consequences, premises for the production of conclusions, and for tracing relationships between laws and phenomena in the particular department of knowledge to which it belongs; and...
