Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... consciousness that there is something unsound and insecure at its very basis . Materialism , which is so bold in hypothetical explanations of things , is strangely timid in self - criticism . Epicurean materialism , like all materialism ...
... consciousness that there is something unsound and insecure at its very basis . Materialism , which is so bold in hypothetical explanations of things , is strangely timid in self - criticism . Epicurean materialism , like all materialism ...
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... consciousness and observation . But if there be freewill in man there must be freewill elsewhere to account for it ; only nothing can come from nothing ; only necessity from necessity . If , then , there be no Being above nature , and ...
... consciousness and observation . But if there be freewill in man there must be freewill elsewhere to account for it ; only nothing can come from nothing ; only necessity from necessity . If , then , there be no Being above nature , and ...
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... consciousness as a modification of the brain , or of any part of the body , he uses lan- guage to which no meaning can be attached . Holbach , believing that there is no God , and that all that is called spirit in man is merely a ...
... consciousness as a modification of the brain , or of any part of the body , he uses lan- guage to which no meaning can be attached . Holbach , believing that there is no God , and that all that is called spirit in man is merely a ...
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... consciousness , as affections or pro- ducts of that in ourselves which we call mind . They are special phenomena in the life or expe- rience of men , and men are themselves only a species of natural existences - a class of animals ...
... consciousness , as affections or pro- ducts of that in ourselves which we call mind . They are special phenomena in the life or expe- rience of men , and men are themselves only a species of natural existences - a class of animals ...
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... consciousness , can no more be the unity which accounts for the universe , than the characteristic features of the leaves of a particular kind of tree can be the sole and adequate explanation of the entire vegetable kingdom . Further ...
... consciousness , can no more be the unity which accounts for the universe , than the characteristic features of the leaves of a particular kind of tree can be the sole and adequate explanation of the entire vegetable kingdom . Further ...
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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.