Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... substance of the universe , sensation must be due to the impression of matter on matter , and thought must be but an elaboration . of sensation , with no truth or reality in it beyond what it derives from sensation . But in that case ...
... substance of the universe , sensation must be due to the impression of matter on matter , and thought must be but an elaboration . of sensation , with no truth or reality in it beyond what it derives from sensation . But in that case ...
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... substance and explanation of the world ? None at all . Nay , had he been consistent he would have refused wholly to admit its existence . He would have said it was useless and unprovable . He would have been an idealist . Besides ...
... substance and explanation of the world ? None at all . Nay , had he been consistent he would have refused wholly to admit its existence . He would have said it was useless and unprovable . He would have been an idealist . Besides ...
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... substances ; " that " only ignorance conceives the will to be free ; " that " there is no more sin in a crooked disposition than in a crooked stick in the water , or in a hump - back or a squint ; " and that Iwe ought to be content that ...
... substances ; " that " only ignorance conceives the will to be free ; " that " there is no more sin in a crooked disposition than in a crooked stick in the water , or in a hump - back or a squint ; " and that Iwe ought to be content that ...
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... substance with dis- tinct properties must be clearly made out . inorganic world no such necessity arises . In the Yet it is a world rich in differences , presenting a vast variety of constituents and forces , of stages and processes The ...
... substance with dis- tinct properties must be clearly made out . inorganic world no such necessity arises . In the Yet it is a world rich in differences , presenting a vast variety of constituents and forces , of stages and processes The ...
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... substances could be com- pounded by the chemist . This doctrine is now overthrown . The supposed break in nature which was regarded as indicating the presence and inter- vention of a distinct principle in organised struc- tures is now ...
... substances could be com- pounded by the chemist . This doctrine is now overthrown . The supposed break in nature which was regarded as indicating the presence and inter- vention of a distinct principle in organised struc- tures is now ...
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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...