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... fact and reason , I contented myself with simply warding off the attacks of those who deny that it has such a foundation . But obviously more than this may and should be done . It is our right and our duty to inquire also if those who ...
... fact and reason , I contented myself with simply warding off the attacks of those who deny that it has such a foundation . But obviously more than this may and should be done . It is our right and our duty to inquire also if those who ...
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... fact that atheism is thus indefinite , divided , and varied , that its chief phases must be discussed separately . It cannot be treated fairly by being treated as what it is not , a single , self - consistent system . It is really a ...
... fact that atheism is thus indefinite , divided , and varied , that its chief phases must be discussed separately . It cannot be treated fairly by being treated as what it is not , a single , self - consistent system . It is really a ...
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... facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus diffident , and we cannot wonder that they are not . There are very few minds which could ac- quiesce in a hopeless and ...
... facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus diffident , and we cannot wonder that they are not . There are very few minds which could ac- quiesce in a hopeless and ...
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... fact , it is colossal , stretching beyond the fixed stars , and covering the whole field of vision . Cer- tainly either the universe would require to be much smaller than it is , or the mind of man much greater than it is , before the ...
... fact , it is colossal , stretching beyond the fixed stars , and covering the whole field of vision . Cer- tainly either the universe would require to be much smaller than it is , or the mind of man much greater than it is , before the ...
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... facts , having no deeper source than the tendency or impulse of individual organisation ; no other sanction than the arbitrary will or varying interest of individ- uals , or - force . In fact , the only imaginable sources of life are ...
... facts , having no deeper source than the tendency or impulse of individual organisation ; no other sanction than the arbitrary will or varying interest of individ- uals , or - force . In fact , the only imaginable sources of life are ...
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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.