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... regard to the words infidelity and atheism , that he objects to them because of the opprobrium which has gath- ered round them . The people who fight for old nationalities remember the words of opprobrium that have been heaped on their ...
... regard to the words infidelity and atheism , that he objects to them because of the opprobrium which has gath- ered round them . The people who fight for old nationalities remember the words of opprobrium that have been heaped on their ...
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... regard to truth forbids us to concede that atheism only exists where it is avowed . Atheists have seldom undertaken to do more than to refute the reasons adduced in favour of belief in God . They have rarely pretended to prove that ...
... regard to truth forbids us to concede that atheism only exists where it is avowed . Atheists have seldom undertaken to do more than to refute the reasons adduced in favour of belief in God . They have rarely pretended to prove that ...
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... most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism , incredible as it may sound , which teaches that the universe , with all its objects 22 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism , incredible as it may sound , which teaches that the universe , with all its objects 22 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... regard them as merely hurtful or merely useless . They have suggested and stimulated the most varied re- searches . It is no accidental circumstance that they have abounded during every age in which physical science has been prosecuted ...
... regard them as merely hurtful or merely useless . They have suggested and stimulated the most varied re- searches . It is no accidental circumstance that they have abounded during every age in which physical science has been prosecuted ...
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... regard matter as merely " dirt , " and to forget that it is the wonderful work and glorious manifestation of God ; and so long as this error is committed , the opposite error may serve a providential purpose . Ignorance of physical ...
... regard matter as merely " dirt , " and to forget that it is the wonderful work and glorious manifestation of God ; and so long as this error is committed , the opposite error may serve a providential purpose . Ignorance of physical ...
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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.