Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... true ; that there was an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of the belief that the heavens and the earth and all that they contain owe their existence and continuance in existence to the wis- dom and will of a supreme , self ...
... true ; that there was an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of the belief that the heavens and the earth and all that they contain owe their existence and continuance in existence to the wis- dom and will of a supreme , self ...
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... true life in God , there can be little doubt that he may so contradict himself , so violate the most essential principles of his own nature , as to persuade him- self that there is no reason in the universe higher than his own , no good ...
... true life in God , there can be little doubt that he may so contradict himself , so violate the most essential principles of his own nature , as to persuade him- self that there is no reason in the universe higher than his own , no good ...
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... true progress , it must be on the basis of atheism ; " and Mr Bradlaugh when he told his audience , " My friend Mr Holyoake says , with regard to the words infidelity and atheism , that he objects to them because of the opprobrium which ...
... true progress , it must be on the basis of atheism ; " and Mr Bradlaugh when he told his audience , " My friend Mr Holyoake says , with regard to the words infidelity and atheism , that he objects to them because of the opprobrium which ...
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... true , and must abandon the hope of ever proving it to be false . It must rest in a state of suspense and hesitation from which there is no probability of deliverance , unless by theism being proved true . It must never express itself ...
... true , and must abandon the hope of ever proving it to be false . It must rest in a state of suspense and hesitation from which there is no probability of deliverance , unless by theism being proved true . It must never express itself ...
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... true , but also here is a proposition which cannot be re- vealed to be true even by an infinite mind , suppos- ing such a mind to exist . It assumes , that is to say , in the first place , a kind of knowledge of the human mind such as ...
... true , but also here is a proposition which cannot be re- vealed to be true even by an infinite mind , suppos- ing such a mind to exist . It assumes , that is to say , in the first place , a kind of knowledge of the human mind such as ...
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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.