Old-Fashioned Ethics And Common-Sense Metaphysics, With Some of Their Applications
Old-Fashioned Ethics And Common-Sense Metaphysics, With Some of Their Applications
Thornton, William Thomas, 1813-1880
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Here cause and effect came into action ; and, so far, everything accords with Hume's theory. But if you repeat the same walk to-morrow, the same landscape effect will almost certainly suggest a train of ideas quite different from that of to-day. Perhaps it may b^in by reminding you of landscape effects in general ; then of Mr. Ruskin, who has discoursed so eloquently on that topic, and next of Mr. Ruskin's * Stones of Venice,' from whence it is equal chances whether your thoughts radiate, on on...e side of the compass, to stone china, or Stoney Stratford, or Stonewall Jackson, or, on the other, to the • Venetian Bracelet,' L. E. L. and Fernando Po, or to that effective adaptation of the Venetian style of architecture, the Railway Station at St Pancras, and thence to some town or other on the Midland Line. These examples will be readily recognized as fair average specimens of those unpremeditated trains of thought with which we are all familiar. Is there, then, in the arrangement of the consecutive thoughts of which the several trains are composed, any method or regu- larity common, I will not say to all, but to any two of them } According to Hume and to most of his successors in the same path of enquiry, there ought to be.
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