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... AND ANTI- THEISM , · · " 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWLEDGE , III . PHYSICUS , • · 446 · • 450 IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM ,. 456 V. LANGE'S HISTORY OF MATERIALISM , VI . CHINESE MATERIALISM.
... AND ANTI- THEISM , · · " 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWLEDGE , III . PHYSICUS , • · 446 · • 450 IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM ,. 456 V. LANGE'S HISTORY OF MATERIALISM , VI . CHINESE MATERIALISM.
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... knowledge . " There is not the slightest foundation for such a notion . The word denial , and even all the sentences which contain it , might be deleted without the argument losing a particle of its force . The word knowledge is ...
... knowledge . " There is not the slightest foundation for such a notion . The word denial , and even all the sentences which contain it , might be deleted without the argument losing a particle of its force . The word knowledge is ...
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... knowledge of nature . If the author mentioned had not thoroughly misconceived the character of the argument he would never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion . " The wonder , " he says , " turns on the great ...
... knowledge of nature . If the author mentioned had not thoroughly misconceived the character of the argument he would never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion . " The wonder , " he says , " turns on the great ...
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... knowledge , must indeed be elevated and glorious , but it may well be within the reach of a feeble and limited intelligence . It implies a certain likeness to God , but none of the distinctive attributes of God . A single square foot of ...
... knowledge , must indeed be elevated and glorious , but it may well be within the reach of a feeble and limited intelligence . It implies a certain likeness to God , but none of the distinctive attributes of God . A single square foot of ...
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... knowledge of the human mind such as no man has got . We can discover the conditions and laws to which reason- ing and research must be conformed if the human mind would attain truth ; but we cannot ascertain the external limits of ...
... knowledge of the human mind such as no man has got . We can discover the conditions and laws to which reason- ing and research must be conformed if the human mind would attain truth ; but we cannot ascertain the external limits of ...
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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...