Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 68
Page 5
... believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted . It has been held to be absolutely impossible for a man entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought of a universe without a creator , without a ...
... believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted . It has been held to be absolutely impossible for a man entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought of a universe without a creator , without a ...
Page 6
... believe what they teach is an assertion which no one has a right to make unless he can conclusive- ly prove it , and for which there will be found in many cases no proof whatever . The strangest - and most monstrous beliefs can be ...
... believe what they teach is an assertion which no one has a right to make unless he can conclusive- ly prove it , and for which there will be found in many cases no proof whatever . The strangest - and most monstrous beliefs can be ...
Page 7
... believe that there are a thousand fantastic gods , another may honestly believe that there is no god . Without hesitation or reservation , therefore , I grant that Feuerbach fully meant what he said . when he wrote , " There is no God ...
... believe that there are a thousand fantastic gods , another may honestly believe that there is no god . Without hesitation or reservation , therefore , I grant that Feuerbach fully meant what he said . when he wrote , " There is no God ...
Page 8
... believe to be what they profess them- selves to be . There are also some who disclaim atheism , yet who plainly teach it under other A large amount of the speculation which is called pantheistic might with equal propriety be called ...
... believe to be what they profess them- selves to be . There are also some who disclaim atheism , yet who plainly teach it under other A large amount of the speculation which is called pantheistic might with equal propriety be called ...
Page 23
... believe that they must be accepted . It is admitted on all hands that , later in life , this noble - minded man was neither subjective idealist nor autotheist . Schopenhauer and others do not hesitate to tell us that within the mind ...
... believe that they must be accepted . It is admitted on all hands that , later in life , this noble - minded man was neither subjective idealist nor autotheist . Schopenhauer and others do not hesitate to tell us that within the mind ...
Contents
1 | |
39 | |
211 | |
222 | |
232 | |
441 | |
450 | |
456 | |
459 | |
462 | |
463 | |
465 | |
467 | |
468 | |
469 | |
472 | |
473 | |
474 | |
480 | |
486 | |
489 | |
497 | |
501 | |
525 | |
529 | |
531 | |
532 | |
533 | |
534 | |
537 | |
540 | |
542 | |
545 | |
547 | |
552 | |
554 | |
555 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolute unity absolutely infinite affirm animal argument assertion atheism atoms attributes believe body Bradlaugh Buddha Buddhism called cause Christian Comte conceived consciousness creation Crown 8vo definite deism Deity Democritus deny Descartes distinct Divine doctrine earth Epicurean Epicurus essentially eternal evil existence explain fact Fcap finite force Hegel Holyoake idea ignorance implies infinite intellectual intelligence J. S. Mill kind knowledge lecture Lepchas living logically Lucretius maintain materialism materialistic matter mental merely metaphysical monism moral nature necessarily never notion object origin pantheism person pessimism phenomena philosophy physical science polytheism positivism positivist present principles Professor proved reason regard religion religious scepticism Schopenhauer scientific Second Edition secularism secularist self-existent sense Sir John Lubbock soul Spinoza spirit substance supposed supreme theology theory things thought tion tribes true truth universe University of Edinburgh vols words worship
Popular passages
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.