| 单词 | mechanist |
| 例句 | Romantic doctors would soar off into mysticism, ignoring the brain altogether, while medical mechanists would dismiss the mind and try to transform conscious intention and selfhood into the work of gears and pulleys. Psychiatry’s Mind-Brain Problem 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Where are the stage mechanists who assisted George Conquest, that unique representative of sprites and gnomes, who achieved success by "leaps and bounds?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z M. Maelzel, the mechanist, inventor of the musical metronome, was one of Beethoven's warmest friends and adherents. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z But while he was technically an abstract Monist, he was practically a "mechanist," believing that it was feasible to redescribe all evolution in terms of mechanical categories. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z If that can be done, I don't see why weaving should baffle a clever mechanist. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z He must have been a clever mechanist, for the result was always the same-after a longer or shorter period the music began again. The Story of Lewis Carroll Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland 2011-04-30T02:00:12.447Z If the necessity of actual occurrences is not ultimately traceable to the Fiat of an Intelligent Will—and mechanists deny that it can be so traced—it is rightly described as fatalistic, blind, purposeless, unintelligible.521.Cf. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z He must have been a clever mechanist, for the result was always the same—after a longer or shorter period, the music began again. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z And for this reason Aristotle praises him, and, contrasting him with the mechanists, Leucippus and Democritus, says that he appears like "a sober man among vain babblers." A Critical History of Greek Philosophy But he holds that the mechanists have been mistaken and one-sided in that they have upheld this interpretation and mode of considering things as the sole and the “true” one. Naturalism And Religion If Tintoret had always painted in this way, he would have sunk into a mere mechanist. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) They are not explained by the supposition of mechanists that these agencies are mere efficient causes: efficient causality does not account for order, it has got simply nothing to do with order or regularity. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z "The necessary being, the sun of eternity, the mechanist of nature, the eye of justice, the watch-maker of the universe, the soul of the world." Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb To employ the language of the mechanist, the necessary fall would be otherwise awanting, and the machine would fail to move. Leading Articles on Various Subjects The mechanists help themselves out with crude analogies from the mechanical, conceal the problem with the name “irritability,” and thus get rid of the greatest marvels. Naturalism And Religion If a mechanist, after planning a machine for a certain purpose, introduced in the execution of it parts which contributed nothing towards effecting that purpose, would not this be considered to be an imperfection? An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality Add to this the consideration that the mechanist theory does not even claim to account for the first origin of the universe: it postulates the existence of matter in motion. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Now the mechanist, the hero of the story, the "Artist of the Beautiful," is described throughout as animated with the feelings proper to the artist, not to the mechanician. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Some will account for the position of each filing by the action exerted upon it by the neighboring filings: these are the mechanists. Creative Evolution For the representation of this tragedy Vaucanson, the celebrated French mechanist, invented an automaton asp, which crawled and hissed to the life,—to the great delight of the Parisians. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical With both these writers there is the common assumption that the mechanist assumes there is a physical and chemical explanation of all phenomena. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative But this leaves for explanation something which the mechanist cannot explain. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z So never did any human mechanist who at length had succeeded in the dream and toil of his life. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Those are the arguments of the new school—those are the instruments by which the limbs of the state are to be amputated, for replacement by the inventions of the revolutionary mechanists. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 But there is another paradox about this book: the above absurd opinion is attributed to that excellent mechanist, Sir William Petty, who passed his days among the astronomers. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I So the mechanist, while firmly believing that there is an ascending unity in all natural phenomena, is never silly enough to deny that living things are alive, or that thinking beings think. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Near the painting-room is the working property-room, filled with carpenters, mechanists, smiths, painters, and other artificers—everything either before or behind the curtain being kept up, repaired, and altered by the people of the establishment. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 He endeavors to show that it is unworthy of God that He should be supposed to have contrived the mechanism of the orchids, as a mechanist contrives a curious puzzle. What is Darwinism? Any structural feature that is useful because of its construction is a structural adaptation; and when such adaptations are given the mechanist has for the most part a relatively easy task in his interpretation. Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 The early Victorians liked what was definable and tangible; they were "ponderous mechanists of style." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters These truths are as plain to the mechanist as they are to the vitalist. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Such stanch materialists and mechanists as Haeckel and Verworn seem to have felt compelled, as a last resort, to postulate a psychic principle in nature, though of a low order. The Breath of Life Guttemberg; without knowing it, was the mechanist of the New World. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution But only too frequently the young lady disappears from some preconcerted arrangement; a striking instance being that of Agnes, daughter of James Ferguson, the mechanist. Strange Pages from Family Papers Millbank Prison.—It was designed, not by "Jeremy Bentham," but by his brother, the great mechanist, Sir Samuel Bentham. Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 It is not sufficiently a country to kindle enthusiasm; it has no national life, you know,—is an automaton put through its motions by paid and cunning mechanists. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Professor Moore is not a bald mechanist or materialist like Professor Loeb, or Ernst Haeckel, nor is he an idealist or spiritualist, like Henri Bergson or Sir Oliver Lodge. The Breath of Life Well," continued the little man, putting on his spectacles and examining the roll of his papers, "I will commence by telling you that I am a native of Hamburgh and like yourself, a great mechanist. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 How richly gifted was this Spanish priest-poet! this pious playwright! this moral mechanist! this devout dramatist! The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome This admirable motion will no doubt attract much attention from mechanists and engineers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 I have generally felt, however, while pursuing it, like a mechanist who is required to execute a delicate and difficult work without suitable implements. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Lawrence J., his "Fitness of the Environment," 73; his concession to the vitalists, 83, 85; on the environment, 86-88; a thorough mechanist, 88, 89.Horse-power, The Breath of Life He undertook, however, to engage the best mechanist in Dantzic, in the event of Dumiger not being able to obtain his release before the appointed day. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 Incredible as it may seem, the Delaware was wrecked off Cayo-Alcatraces, and for the third time the machinery was lost, the mechanist saving himself with great difficulty! Life in Mexico The Compensating System of Construction.—Compensation for wear is a part of the mechanist's art that appears just as essential to him as compensation for variation of temperature is to a maker of chronometers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 The first operation of Mr. Sheridan towards it was to order the mechanist of the theatre to get ready two fleets. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 If we follow the lead of our logical, scientific faculties, then, we shall all be mechanists and materialists. The Breath of Life So," replied the mechanist, "fishes have the water, in which, yet, beasts can swim by nature, and men by art. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes A mechanist was then sent to the north, to procure a collection of new machinery; and, after extraordinary delays and difficulties, he embarked with it at New York in February, 1837. Life in Mexico The stone wall before the honest mechanist is the abolition of purpose, and design, an old insoluble problem upon his premises. The Glands Regulating Personality Mr. Keally is a mechanist, and says he discovered this force by accident. The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters But poets have been challenged to resign the civic crown to reasoners and mechanists on another plea. English literary criticism The young Lord of Glenvarloch!" said the old mechanist; "wi' aw my heart, and blithe I will be to see him again. The Fortunes of Nigel The manner in which Shakespeare's plays have been generally altered or rather mangled by modern mechanists, is a disgrace to the English stage. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays We form joints and links of connexion, adapt large apertures to small, and thus dispense altogether with the aid of the brassfounder and the mechanist. Familiar Letters on Chemistry The symbol was force, as a compass-needle or a triangle was force, as the mechanist might prove by losing it, and nothing could be gained by ignoring their value. The Education of Henry Adams |
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