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... TRIBES , 529 XXX . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF ESQUIMAUX , XXXI . SIR J. LUBBOCK'S MISCELLANEOUS INSTANCES OF 531 ATHEISTICAL PEOPLES , XXXII . POLYTHEISM , · 532 · 533 XXXIII . PESSIMISM , 534 XXXIV . HISTORIES OF PANTHEISM X Contents .
... TRIBES , 529 XXX . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF ESQUIMAUX , XXXI . SIR J. LUBBOCK'S MISCELLANEOUS INSTANCES OF 531 ATHEISTICAL PEOPLES , XXXII . POLYTHEISM , · 532 · 533 XXXIII . PESSIMISM , 534 XXXIV . HISTORIES OF PANTHEISM X Contents .
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... Polytheism there is nothing to fear from . Pantheism , except in forms in which it is hardly distinguishable from atheism , there is comparatively little to fear from . It is improbable that this country will be afflicted to any great ...
... Polytheism there is nothing to fear from . Pantheism , except in forms in which it is hardly distinguishable from atheism , there is comparatively little to fear from . It is improbable that this country will be afflicted to any great ...
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... polytheism , faded and withered away . The Christian Church in its earli- est days had to battle with heathenism and Juda- ism , open and avowed , or with suppressed tend- encies towards both , expressing themselves in the form of ...
... polytheism , faded and withered away . The Christian Church in its earli- est days had to battle with heathenism and Juda- ism , open and avowed , or with suppressed tend- encies towards both , expressing themselves in the form of ...
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... polytheism , and even materialism and proof that all theories which may in future be started on the same subject must be equally in vain . The latter task , as I showed in my first lecture , must transcend human power . The human mind ...
... polytheism , and even materialism and proof that all theories which may in future be started on the same subject must be equally in vain . The latter task , as I showed in my first lecture , must transcend human power . The human mind ...
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... polytheism and of pantheism are simply varie- ties of atheism . For polytheism and pantheism are both essentially self - contradictory , and must logically pass over either into atheism or theism . There is no consistent , independent ...
... polytheism and of pantheism are simply varie- ties of atheism . For polytheism and pantheism are both essentially self - contradictory , and must logically pass over either into atheism or theism . There is no consistent , independent ...
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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.