Personal Idealism Philosophical Essays By Eight Members of the University of O
Personal Idealism Philosophical Essays By Eight Members of the University of O
Henry Cecil Sturt
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" Again he speaks of the material world being "built up of the same matter under the same laws, " and he can see no break in the order of material evolution from end to end. The chemical elements, he believes, arc not ultimate. He quotes with approval the words of Dr. Preston : ~ " We are led to suspect that not only is the atom a complex composed of an association of different ions, but that the atoms of those substances which lie in the same chemical group are perhaps built up from the same k...ind of ions, or at least from ions which possess the same e/M, 3 and that the differences which exist in the materials thus constituted arise more from the manner of association of the ions in the atom than from differ- ences in the fundamental character of the ions which build up the atoms. " 1 Nature, l. Xi. P. 131. 2 Ibid. P. 133. 3 e ^electric charge ; m = m;if, s. iv THE LIMITS OF EVOLUTION 203 10. These attempts to express the differences of the chemical elements in terms of matter and motion may be taken as typical of all theories which attempt to reduce qualitative differences to quantitative differences, or to describe secondary qualities in terms of primary qualities.
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