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... less general in signification than anti - theism , includes a multitude of systems . Atheism has a great variety of forms . Its advocates are by no means agreed among themselves . On the con- trary , if their comparatively small number ...
... less general in signification than anti - theism , includes a multitude of systems . Atheism has a great variety of forms . Its advocates are by no means agreed among themselves . On the con- trary , if their comparatively small number ...
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... less presumptuous than to deny that God is . For , it will be observed , it assumes that we are capable of describing the limits both of human attainment and of Divine power . It assumes that we are not only able to say here is a ...
... less presumptuous than to deny that God is . For , it will be observed , it assumes that we are capable of describing the limits both of human attainment and of Divine power . It assumes that we are not only able to say here is a ...
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... less presumptuous than to deny that God is . It implies in him who makes the denial the posses- sion of a Divine attribute - the possession of infi- nite knowledge . The atheist , then , who would not virtually de- clare himself to be a ...
... less presumptuous than to deny that God is . It implies in him who makes the denial the posses- sion of a Divine attribute - the possession of infi- nite knowledge . The atheist , then , who would not virtually de- clare himself to be a ...
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... less one which must seem per- fectly monstrous to any mind which is not griev- ously perverted either intellectually or morally . If it were accepted , mental life could have no unity or harmony . For who could decide be- tween the ...
... less one which must seem per- fectly monstrous to any mind which is not griev- ously perverted either intellectually or morally . If it were accepted , mental life could have no unity or harmony . For who could decide be- tween the ...
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... highest good - God . Aris- totle was scarcely less opposed to materialism than Plato , and in his theory of causes he constructed a fortress which all the forces of materialism have , down Greek Anti - Materialism . 55.
... highest good - God . Aris- totle was scarcely less opposed to materialism than Plato , and in his theory of causes he constructed a fortress which all the forces of materialism have , down Greek Anti - Materialism . 55.
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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...