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... secularists have fancied that they could not be properly called atheists because they did not undertake to prove that there is no God , but only to show that there is no reason for supposing that there is one ; but , of course , belief ...
... secularists have fancied that they could not be properly called atheists because they did not undertake to prove that there is no God , but only to show that there is no reason for supposing that there is one ; but , of course , belief ...
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... secularists who do not call themselves so , and who belong to no secularist society . On the other hand , some who call themselves secularists , and perhaps even the majority of the members of some of the secu- larist societies , hold ...
... secularists who do not call themselves so , and who belong to no secularist society . On the other hand , some who call themselves secularists , and perhaps even the majority of the members of some of the secu- larist societies , hold ...
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... secularists there unadvanced in position . Even in Northamp- ton , which Mr Bradlaugh knows , I found them . lately meeting on the second floor of a public- house , where I found them twenty or twenty - five years ago . In Glasgow they ...
... secularists there unadvanced in position . Even in Northamp- ton , which Mr Bradlaugh knows , I found them . lately meeting on the second floor of a public- house , where I found them twenty or twenty - five years ago . In Glasgow they ...
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... secularists there are could get a large number of signatures to petitions in favour of purely secular education , the disestablishment and disendowment of the National Church , the abolition of the House of Lords , and a great many ...
... secularists there are could get a large number of signatures to petitions in favour of purely secular education , the disestablishment and disendowment of the National Church , the abolition of the House of Lords , and a great many ...
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... mitted to the scrutiny of reason and conscience ; and if its evidence be rejected , however per- versely , there is no help for that in compulsion , which can only add to what sin already exists the Persecution of Secularists . 219.
... mitted to the scrutiny of reason and conscience ; and if its evidence be rejected , however per- versely , there is no help for that in compulsion , which can only add to what sin already exists the Persecution of Secularists . 219.
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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.