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... and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all theists will probably hold that the soul bears within it a latent and implicit testimony against atheism Existence of Atheism . 5.
... and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all theists will probably hold that the soul bears within it a latent and implicit testimony against atheism Existence of Atheism . 5.
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... soul , and for the progress of history . But this form of atheism also , popular although it be , fails to establish any of its pre- tensions . It neither accounts for matter and its laws nor shows that they do not require to be ...
... soul , and for the progress of history . But this form of atheism also , popular although it be , fails to establish any of its pre- tensions . It neither accounts for matter and its laws nor shows that they do not require to be ...
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... soul which would not be satisfied with the very world itself , could it have it , will surely not be satisfied with that pale reflection of it which constitutes science . The soul which is itself so superior every way to the world ...
... soul which would not be satisfied with the very world itself , could it have it , will surely not be satisfied with that pale reflection of it which constitutes science . The soul which is itself so superior every way to the world ...
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... soul which has studied , and searched , and speculated , which has pursued with eager and anxious heart , truth in many directions , and yet , because it sought it away from the light and life which are in God , has only found in all ...
... soul which has studied , and searched , and speculated , which has pursued with eager and anxious heart , truth in many directions , and yet , because it sought it away from the light and life which are in God , has only found in all ...
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... souls and gods are sup- posed by them to be material beings , and material things to have souls and divine powers ; they can- not think of matter and spirit as separate exist- ences . Fetichism , animism , animal - worship , na- ture ...
... souls and gods are sup- posed by them to be material beings , and material things to have souls and divine powers ; they can- not think of matter and spirit as separate exist- ences . Fetichism , animism , animal - worship , na- ture ...
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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.