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... Lucretius an expositor of marvellous genius - the brightest star by far in the constellation of materialists . The atomic materialism of the present day is still substantial- ly the materialism which Epicurus and Lucretius propounded ...
... Lucretius an expositor of marvellous genius - the brightest star by far in the constellation of materialists . The atomic materialism of the present day is still substantial- ly the materialism which Epicurus and Lucretius propounded ...
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... Lucretius has so powerfully described . In judging either Epicurus or Lucretius , it would be most unjust and uncharitable to forget that the religion with which they were familiar was so fearfully corrupt and degrading as naturally to ...
... Lucretius has so powerfully described . In judging either Epicurus or Lucretius , it would be most unjust and uncharitable to forget that the religion with which they were familiar was so fearfully corrupt and degrading as naturally to ...
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... Lucretius , and materialists in general , assume it to mean that , since matter is , matter must always have been ; that matter could never have been created ; that the world was un- caused . If the assumption be a mere assumption -if ...
... Lucretius , and materialists in general , assume it to mean that , since matter is , matter must always have been ; that matter could never have been created ; that the world was un- caused . If the assumption be a mere assumption -if ...
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... Lucretius fancied they escaped the necessity of believing either in the creative and providential action of God , or in the sway of fate , -the two beliefs which seemed to them to be the great enemies of mental peace . The hypothesis of ...
... Lucretius fancied they escaped the necessity of believing either in the creative and providential action of God , or in the sway of fate , -the two beliefs which seemed to them to be the great enemies of mental peace . The hypothesis of ...
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... Lucretius , just as it is with a host of modern scientific men , that they would not seek for anything above nature that they would not believe there could be anything beyond matter . They were deter- mined to account for everything ...
... Lucretius , just as it is with a host of modern scientific men , that they would not seek for anything above nature that they would not believe there could be anything beyond matter . They were deter- mined to account for everything ...
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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 131 - ... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
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.