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... reason of man can only rest in the Divine Reason as the first cause ; his affections tend to a supreme good which can only be found in God ; his conscience contains a moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious ...
... reason of man can only rest in the Divine Reason as the first cause ; his affections tend to a supreme good which can only be found in God ; his conscience contains a moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious ...
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... reason for suspecting the sincerity of these men or of these statements , and therefore I do not suspect it . names . There are open and avowed atheists whom we are bound to believe to be what they profess them- selves to be . There are ...
... reason for suspecting the sincerity of these men or of these statements , and therefore I do not suspect it . names . There are open and avowed atheists whom we are bound to believe to be what they profess them- selves to be . There are ...
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... reason is obvious . It is proverbially difficult to prove a negative , and there can be no negative so difficult to prove as that there is no God . Were a man to be landed on an unknown island , the print of a foot , a shell , a feather ...
... reason is obvious . It is proverbially difficult to prove a negative , and there can be no negative so difficult to prove as that there is no God . Were a man to be landed on an unknown island , the print of a foot , a shell , a feather ...
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... reason- ing and research must be conformed if the human mind would attain truth ; but we cannot ascertain the external limits of intellectual progress . To lay down that this or that proposition , which in- volves in itself no ...
... reason- ing and research must be conformed if the human mind would attain truth ; but we cannot ascertain the external limits of intellectual progress . To lay down that this or that proposition , which in- volves in itself no ...
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... reason- ably to convince us that there is a God . Feuer- bach , as I have already mentioned , declares it " clear as the sun and as evident as the day , not only that there is no God , but that there can be none . " We seek in vain ...
... reason- ably to convince us that there is a God . Feuer- bach , as I have already mentioned , declares it " clear as the sun and as evident as the day , not only that there is no God , but that there can be none . " We seek in vain ...
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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.