Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... affirm that no living creature had been there . The larger the territory to be traversed and examined , the more difficult would it necessarily be to show that it had not a single animal inhabitant . So to show that there is a God may ...
... affirm that no living creature had been there . The larger the territory to be traversed and examined , the more difficult would it necessarily be to show that it had not a single animal inhabitant . So to show that there is a God may ...
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... affirm that nowhere throughout all this territory is there any trace of God's existence , he must have seen it all ... affirmation . The whole argument turns simply on the manifest and indubitable difference between proving an affirma- 1 ...
... affirm that nowhere throughout all this territory is there any trace of God's existence , he must have seen it all ... affirmation . The whole argument turns simply on the manifest and indubitable difference between proving an affirma- 1 ...
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... affirm that theism has not been proved true , and must abandon the hope of ever proving it to be false . It must rest in a state of suspense and hesitation from which there is no probability of deliverance , unless by theism being ...
... affirm that theism has not been proved true , and must abandon the hope of ever proving it to be false . It must rest in a state of suspense and hesitation from which there is no probability of deliverance , unless by theism being ...
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... affirmation that a finite mind can trace the limits of infinite power . Therefore , I say , to deny that God can be known is scarcely less presumptuous than to deny that God is . It implies in him who makes the denial the posses- sion ...
... affirmation that a finite mind can trace the limits of infinite power . Therefore , I say , to deny that God can be known is scarcely less presumptuous than to deny that God is . It implies in him who makes the denial the posses- sion ...
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... affirm that it is impossible God can be . That is , I affirm one existence , and deny that there can be more than one . " But the terms " existence " and " mode " are here em- ployed in so peculiar and equivocal a manner that the ...
... affirm that it is impossible God can be . That is , I affirm one existence , and deny that there can be more than one . " But the terms " existence " and " mode " are here em- ployed in so peculiar and equivocal a manner that the ...
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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...