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... ignorant may not be the eternal source of all life and thought , while the most familiar manifesta- tions of life and thought may reasonably convince him that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist ...
... ignorant may not be the eternal source of all life and thought , while the most familiar manifesta- tions of life and thought may reasonably convince him that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist ...
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... ignorance and errone ous views of Divine things . " The atheist , " as Plu- tarch tells us , " thinks that there is no God ; the superstitious man would fain think so , but believes against his will , for he fears to do otherwise ...
... ignorance and errone ous views of Divine things . " The atheist , " as Plu- tarch tells us , " thinks that there is no God ; the superstitious man would fain think so , but believes against his will , for he fears to do otherwise ...
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... Ignorance of physical nature , or injustice to it , is fatal even to philo- sophy and theology . There was very little ma- terialism during the middle ages ; but at that time , also , physical science languished and died , and the ...
... Ignorance of physical nature , or injustice to it , is fatal even to philo- sophy and theology . There was very little ma- terialism during the middle ages ; but at that time , also , physical science languished and died , and the ...
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... ignorance , and the experience of misery , and described as ir- rational and mischievous in all its forms . The only notion of God which is not absurd is held to be that which identifies Him with the moving power Materialism in France . 87.
... ignorance , and the experience of misery , and described as ir- rational and mischievous in all its forms . The only notion of God which is not absurd is held to be that which identifies Him with the moving power Materialism in France . 87.
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... ignorance of actual causes will always induce the supposition of those which are imaginary ; credulity will thus reconduct the natu ral philosopher himself to the feet of superstitious phantoms , in which either his limited vision or ...
... ignorance of actual causes will always induce the supposition of those which are imaginary ; credulity will thus reconduct the natu ral philosopher himself to the feet of superstitious phantoms , in which either his limited vision or ...
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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 76 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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...
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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...
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