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... Buddhism , and its inaccuracy will be seen at once ; while Buddhism only answers to it so far in consequence of being a system of philosophy and a code of ethics as well as a reli- gion . Religion is not essentially synthetic . does not ...
... Buddhism , and its inaccuracy will be seen at once ; while Buddhism only answers to it so far in consequence of being a system of philosophy and a code of ethics as well as a reli- gion . Religion is not essentially synthetic . does not ...
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... Buddhists in China and Japan are strictly and properly atheists , -atheism would have con- siderable reason for exultation . For , though even that would certainly not prove atheism true or the- ism false , it would convince ...
... Buddhists in China and Japan are strictly and properly atheists , -atheism would have con- siderable reason for exultation . For , though even that would certainly not prove atheism true or the- ism false , it would convince ...
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... Buddhists , and have priests , who are educated partly at home and partly in the great monasteries of Thibet . All testimony regarding the Lepchas agrees in representing them as a physically handsome , constitutionally timid and ...
... Buddhists , and have priests , who are educated partly at home and partly in the great monasteries of Thibet . All testimony regarding the Lepchas agrees in representing them as a physically handsome , constitutionally timid and ...
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... Buddhism , which originated in India about five hundred years before the advent of Christ , has spread over a greater area of the earth , and gained more adherents than even Chris- tianity , and by peaceful means - by the power of ...
... Buddhism , which originated in India about five hundred years before the advent of Christ , has spread over a greater area of the earth , and gained more adherents than even Chris- tianity , and by peaceful means - by the power of ...
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... Buddhism , M. Saint - Hilaire's included , and all the literature of Buddhism yet made known to the European world ... Buddhist book without meeting with Are Buddhists Atheists ? 283.
... Buddhism , M. Saint - Hilaire's included , and all the literature of Buddhism yet made known to the European world ... Buddhist book without meeting with Are Buddhists Atheists ? 283.
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Page 160 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 384 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 172 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 172 - ... and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually...