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Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. ΤΟ The Memory of my Mother I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN SORROWFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HER LOVE AND VIRTUES PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with.
Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. ΤΟ The Memory of my Mother I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN SORROWFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HER LOVE AND VIRTUES PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with.
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Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with the work entitled ' Theism , ' which was published in 1877. The two works may be regarded as two parts of a system of Natural ...
Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with the work entitled ' Theism , ' which was published in 1877. The two works may be regarded as two parts of a system of Natural ...
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... NOTE I. THE TERMS THEISM , DEISM , ATHEISM , AND ANTI- THEISM , • • · 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWLEDGE , . 446 III . PHYSICUS , 450 IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM , 456 · 459 462 463 465 467 468 ...
... NOTE I. THE TERMS THEISM , DEISM , ATHEISM , AND ANTI- THEISM , • • · 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWLEDGE , . 446 III . PHYSICUS , 450 IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM , 456 · 459 462 463 465 467 468 ...
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... note that the mind itself is the most important factor in knowledge , and that the simplest and directest experience presupposes a constitution in thought as well as in things . Causes are inferred to be metaphysical fictions because ...
... note that the mind itself is the most important factor in knowledge , and that the simplest and directest experience presupposes a constitution in thought as well as in things . Causes are inferred to be metaphysical fictions because ...
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... Note in the Journal of the Asiatic Society , Bengal , 1840 ) , informs us that the Lepchas are mostly Buddhists , and have priests , who are educated partly at home and partly in the great monasteries of Thibet . All testimony regarding ...
... Note in the Journal of the Asiatic Society , Bengal , 1840 ) , informs us that the Lepchas are mostly Buddhists , and have priests , who are educated partly at home and partly in the great monasteries of Thibet . All testimony regarding ...
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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.