Man As a Creative First Cause Two Discourses Delivered At Concord Mass July
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Nor is our knowledge subject to our will. We may, by effort, bring about the conditions essen- tial to our luiowing. We can remove an external obstruction to sight, so as to see what was hidden by it. And we can also by effort call up and ar- range our ideas so that some new truth will be- come apparent; but in neither case can we will what we shall perceive. But the truth may be, and often is, apparent without any prior effort, by merely observing things as they happen to be. But whatever pre-... liminary efforts we may make to bring about the prerequisite conditions to our kno^ang, the ad- ditions to our knowledge are always simple inv- mediate mental perceptions.^ separable from the effort, and in its essence as independent of it as the smell of musk or brimstone is of the move- ment of the hand which brings it to the nose. Feeling (i. E. , sensation and emotion) is an in- centive to action, but is not itseK active. Knowledge enables us to direct our efforts, but is itself passive. Through its only active faculty of will — its 6 MAN A CREATIVE FIRST CAUSE.
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