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s: "No kind and no degree of similarity exists between the quality of a sensation, and the quality of the agent inducing it and portrayed by it."--_Lectures on Scientific Subjects_, p. 390. [20-1] _The Philosophy of Consciousness_, p. 72. [21-1] The Gospel of John (ch. xviii.) leaves the impression that Pilate either did not wait for an answer but asked the question in contempt, as Bacon understood, or else that waiting he received no answer. The Gospel of Nicodemus, however, written according to Tischendorf in the second century, probably from tradition, gives the rest of the conversation as follows: "Pilate says to him: What is truth? Jesus says: Truth is from heaven. Pilate says: Is not there truth upon earth? Jesus says to Pilate: See how one who speaks truth is judged by those who have power upon earth!" [ch. iii.] [22-1] The most acute recent discussion of this subject is by Helmholtz, in his essay entitled, "_Recent Progress in the Theory of Vision_." [24-1] George Boole, Professor of Mathematics in Queen's College, Cork, was born Nov. 2, 1815, died Dec. 8, 1864. He was the author of several contributions to the higher mathematics, but his principal production is entitled: _An Investigation into the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities_ [London, 1854.] Though the reputation he gained was so limited that one may seek his name in vain in the _New American Cyclopedia_ [1875], or the _Dictionnaire des Contemporains_ [1859], the few who can appreciate his treatise place the very highest estimate upon it. Professor Todhunter, in the preface to his _History of the Theory of Probabilities_, calls it "a marvellous work," and in similar language Professor W. Stanley Jevons speaks of it as "one of the most marvellous and admirable pieces of reasoning ever put together" (_Pure Logic_, p. 75). Professor Bain, who gives a synopsis of it in his _Deductive Logic_, wholly misapprehends the author's purpose, and is unable to appraise justly his conclusions. [28-1] _The Institutes of Metaphysic_, p. 459, (2nd edition.) [31-1] _An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought_, p. 113 (New York, 1860). [37-1] _The Dhamapada_, verse 93. [37-2] Koppen, _Der Buddhismus_, s. 30. [39-1] Spencer in assuming an "unknowable universal causal agent and source of things," as "the nature of the power manifested in phenomena," and in calling this the idea common to both religion
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