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... finite , and imper- fect , and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all theists will probably hold that the soul bears within it a latent and implicit testimony against ...
... finite , and imper- fect , and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all theists will probably hold that the soul bears within it a latent and implicit testimony against ...
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... finite mind can trace the limits of infinite power . Therefore , I say , to deny that God can be known is scarcely less presumptuous than to deny that God is . It implies in him who makes the denial the posses- sion of a Divine ...
... finite mind can trace the limits of infinite power . Therefore , I say , to deny that God can be known is scarcely less presumptuous than to deny that God is . It implies in him who makes the denial the posses- sion of a Divine ...
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... finite minds , & c . , to be found in these worlds . The conviction which a man feels when looking at St Paul's that it must have had an architect of wonderful genius , is not disturbed or lessened by his knowledge that it was built two ...
... finite minds , & c . , to be found in these worlds . The conviction which a man feels when looking at St Paul's that it must have had an architect of wonderful genius , is not disturbed or lessened by his knowledge that it was built two ...
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... finite human mind . What we call outward things are , according to this hypothesis , but mental states . All that is is ego ; is the self - acting of itself and limiting itself , and so producing the non - ego or universe . Such is the ...
... finite human mind . What we call outward things are , according to this hypothesis , but mental states . All that is is ego ; is the self - acting of itself and limiting itself , and so producing the non - ego or universe . Such is the ...
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... finite mind the creator and sustainer of the universe is its own best refutation . Atheism , then , yields no satisfaction to the reason , but is in all its forms a violation of the conditions of rational belief . the demands of the ...
... finite mind the creator and sustainer of the universe is its own best refutation . Atheism , then , yields no satisfaction to the reason , but is in all its forms a violation of the conditions of rational belief . the demands of the ...
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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.