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... positive distinctive principle which atheists hold in common . As soon as they attempt to state a doctrine which may fill the place of theism , dissension breaks out among them at all points . It is an obvious consequence of the fact ...
... positive distinctive principle which atheists hold in common . As soon as they attempt to state a doctrine which may fill the place of theism , dissension breaks out among them at all points . It is an obvious consequence of the fact ...
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... positive or independent or scientific proof of it need be looked for ; and that facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus diffident , and we cannot wonder that they are ...
... positive or independent or scientific proof of it need be looked for ; and that facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus diffident , and we cannot wonder that they are ...
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... positive argument . Because they can fancy that the powers of inorganic nature may once have acted in a way in which they are never known to have acted , and in which they certainly never act now , they conclude that these powers did ...
... positive argument . Because they can fancy that the powers of inorganic nature may once have acted in a way in which they are never known to have acted , and in which they certainly never act now , they conclude that these powers did ...
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... positive proof . Is there a definite boundary - line between the plant and the animal ? Is the organic world divis- ible into a vegetable and animal kingdom , or is there an intermediate kingdom protista ? These two questions , it seems ...
... positive proof . Is there a definite boundary - line between the plant and the animal ? Is the organic world divis- ible into a vegetable and animal kingdom , or is there an intermediate kingdom protista ? These two questions , it seems ...
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... positive philosophy towards religion ? As represented by Comte , it may be thus described . We know , and can know , nothing except physical pheno- mena and their laws . The senses are the sources of all true thinking , and we can know ...
... positive philosophy towards religion ? As represented by Comte , it may be thus described . We know , and can know , nothing except physical pheno- mena and their laws . The senses are the sources of all true thinking , and we can know ...
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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...