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... person of any refinement and elevation of character , will grant at once - can- not be content with merely material and earthly good ; it must have something which responds to higher faculties than the sensuous and the selfish . It ...
... person of any refinement and elevation of character , will grant at once - can- not be content with merely material and earthly good ; it must have something which responds to higher faculties than the sensuous and the selfish . It ...
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... person except a fool rest in complacent contemplation of himself ? True self - knowledge is very much the reverse of pleasant or satisfying . Shame and terror are often its most natural effects . Science , culture , truth , when ...
... person except a fool rest in complacent contemplation of himself ? True self - knowledge is very much the reverse of pleasant or satisfying . Shame and terror are often its most natural effects . Science , culture , truth , when ...
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... person whose senses are affected . He supposed only space and the atoms to be real . But what evidence had he as a materialist and sensationalist for his atoms ? None of his senses could apprehend them ; and although sense was so little ...
... person whose senses are affected . He supposed only space and the atoms to be real . But what evidence had he as a materialist and sensationalist for his atoms ? None of his senses could apprehend them ; and although sense was so little ...
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... , -to prove that he was a most excellent person , better skilled in medicine than the rest of his profession , and an 1 See Appendix XI . original philosophical genius . I confess , I think , Materialism in France . 83.
... , -to prove that he was a most excellent person , better skilled in medicine than the rest of his profession , and an 1 See Appendix XI . original philosophical genius . I confess , I think , Materialism in France . 83.
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... persons took to judging of them from the merely physical science point of view . In the name of this or that mechanical or biological generalisa- tion , they hastened to inform the public that there could be no God , no soul , no ...
... persons took to judging of them from the merely physical science point of view . In the name of this or that mechanical or biological generalisa- tion , they hastened to inform the public that there could be no God , no soul , no ...
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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.