History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904
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iii. 881. Digitized by VjOOQ IC V.6] BUTLERS ' analogy: 285 and not in the thing.^ Clarke, too, has an equal advantage in maintaining against Collins that it is impossible to regard thought as a * mode of motion/ Any mode of combining things regarded as external to ourselves must result in an external product To call motion thought is, in fact, to con- fuse the. radical opposition of subjective and objective; and so long as Collins falls in with Clarke's fundamental method of representing that ...opposition as embodied in the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, he in vain attempts to give an air of plausibility to his escape from Clarke's ix)n- elusion. Elsewhere, as in the illustration of the ^^^g^ which runs through two or three letters, he presses, his antagonist harder.* That consciousness does in fact arise from certain collocations of matter is a fact which Clarke struggles to evade rather awkwardly by the hypothesis of an * immaterial principle ' somehow added to the embryo.* But Collins does not seem to have a sufficiently firm grasp of principles to turn his opponent's weakness to account.
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