Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought of a universe without a creator , without a presiding mind and sustaining will , without a judge of right and wrong , has seemed to many to be so incredible that they have refused to ...
... entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought of a universe without a creator , without a presiding mind and sustaining will , without a judge of right and wrong , has seemed to many to be so incredible that they have refused to ...
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... entirely ; it must wholly renounce its own nature . In other words , a brute may , but a man cannot , be a consistent atheist of this class . Pure empiricism is so far beneath humanity as to be beyond its reach , and can support nothing ...
... entirely ; it must wholly renounce its own nature . In other words , a brute may , but a man cannot , be a consistent atheist of this class . Pure empiricism is so far beneath humanity as to be beyond its reach , and can support nothing ...
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... entirely by natural principles , by material primordia . There- fore they were compelled to ascribe contingency to nature , spontaneity to matter . At the same time they had a respect for facts , and therefore attri- buted to nature as ...
... entirely by natural principles , by material primordia . There- fore they were compelled to ascribe contingency to nature , spontaneity to matter . At the same time they had a respect for facts , and therefore attri- buted to nature as ...
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... entirely distinct sources . They represented the one as having nothing to do with the other ; as having each an authority of its own ; as having each a province in which for the other to enter is an act of usurpation . They drew the ...
... entirely distinct sources . They represented the one as having nothing to do with the other ; as having each an authority of its own ; as having each a province in which for the other to enter is an act of usurpation . They drew the ...
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... entirely material . Immateriality and spirituality he pronounces to be meaningless words . The mental faculties he represents as only determinate manners of act- ing which result from the peculiar organisation of the body ; feeling ...
... entirely material . Immateriality and spirituality he pronounces to be meaningless words . The mental faculties he represents as only determinate manners of act- ing which result from the peculiar organisation of the body ; feeling ...
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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.