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... EDINBURGH ; AUTHOR OF ' THEISM , ' " THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN EUROPE , ' etc. THIRD EDITION WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXV c All Rights reserved UTTOVER THEOL DEC 1 1888 ARY . SEM , 41157+.
... EDINBURGH ; AUTHOR OF ' THEISM , ' " THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN EUROPE , ' etc. THIRD EDITION WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXV c All Rights reserved UTTOVER THEOL DEC 1 1888 ARY . SEM , 41157+.
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... Philosophical Basis of Theism ' ( 1883 ) by Professor Samuel Harris of Yale , the ' Philosophy of Theism ( 1884 ) by the late Dr Ward , and Modern Theories in Philosophy and Religion ' ( 1885 ) by Principal Tulloch . JOHNSTONE LODGE ...
... Philosophical Basis of Theism ' ( 1883 ) by Professor Samuel Harris of Yale , the ' Philosophy of Theism ( 1884 ) by the late Dr Ward , and Modern Theories in Philosophy and Religion ' ( 1885 ) by Principal Tulloch . JOHNSTONE LODGE ...
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... philosophical career , accused of atheism in this form . He was supposed to teach a purely sub- jective idealism which ... philosophy is in- consistent with these exculpatory statements , I believe that they must be accepted . It is ...
... philosophical career , accused of atheism in this form . He was supposed to teach a purely sub- jective idealism which ... philosophy is in- consistent with these exculpatory statements , I believe that they must be accepted . It is ...
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... philosophy , " is to say nothing , unless you say how old philosophy is . But philosophy existed in union with religion long before it existed in a state of independence , and for anything we know to the contrary , may be 42 Anti ...
... philosophy , " is to say nothing , unless you say how old philosophy is . But philosophy existed in union with religion long before it existed in a state of independence , and for anything we know to the contrary , may be 42 Anti ...
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... philosophy - closely akin to that just described . It assumes that perception by the senses is the only source of true knowledge . It maintains that the four elements of earth , air , fire , and water , are the original principles of ...
... philosophy - closely akin to that just described . It assumes that perception by the senses is the only source of true knowledge . It maintains that the four elements of earth , air , fire , and water , are the original principles 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...