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... produced . Atheism in the form of a denial of the existence of a God has been called dogmatic atheism ; atheism in the form of doubt of man's ability to ascertain whether there is a God or not has been called sceptical atheism ; atheism ...
... produced . Atheism in the form of a denial of the existence of a God has been called dogmatic atheism ; atheism in the form of doubt of man's ability to ascertain whether there is a God or not has been called sceptical atheism ; atheism ...
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... that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist undertook to prove the non - existence of nature , -that there are no natural causes and no effects produced by them 12 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist undertook to prove the non - existence of nature , -that there are no natural causes and no effects produced by them 12 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... produced by them , he would venture on the same kind of task as that of the atheist who attempts to establish that there is no God , and his audacity might then be rebuked and his want of wisdom evinced by the same kind of reasoning ...
... produced by them , he would venture on the same kind of task as that of the atheist who attempts to establish that there is no God , and his audacity might then be rebuked and his want of wisdom evinced by the same kind of reasoning ...
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... producing the non - ego or universe . Such is the doctrine on which a kind of atheism has been founded , which has sometimes received the name of autotheism , seeing that it would make man his own God and the creator of the heavens and ...
... producing the non - ego or universe . Such is the doctrine on which a kind of atheism has been founded , which has sometimes received the name of autotheism , seeing that it would make man his own God and the creator of the heavens and ...
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... produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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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...