Mellin's first sensation was of utter mystification; his second was more corporeal: the consciousness of physical misery, of consuming fever, of aches that ran over his whole body, converging to a dreadful climax in his head, of a throat so immoderately partched it seemed to crackle, and a thirst so avid it was a passion. His eye fell upon a carafe of water on a chair at his bedside; he seized upon it with a shaking hand and drank half its contents before he set it down. The action attracted his companion's attention and he looked up, showing a pale and haggard countenance.英文原著 · 《His Own People》
(1) The motion of bodies of relative centrality, in relation to bodies of abstract, general centrality,
is absolutely free motion, and the conclusion of this system is that the general central body is
brought together through relative centrality with dependent corporeality.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
Between the two actually shapeless extremes contained within magnetism as the abstract concept
of the figure there appears, as an immanent form of juxtaposition distinct from that determined by
gravity, a kind of magnetism transformed into total corporeality, cohesion.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
We perceive a continual succession of ideas, some are anew excited, others are changed or totally disappear. There is therefore some cause of these ideas, whereon they depend, and which produces and changes them. That this cause cannot be any quality or idea or combination of ideas, is clear from the preceding section. I must therefore be a substance; but it has been shewn that there is no corporeal or material substance: it remains therefore that the cause of ideas is an incorporeal active substance or Spirit.英文原著 · 《Principles of Human Knowledge》