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Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. ΤΟ The Memory of my Mother I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN SORROWFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HER LOVE AND VIRTUES PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with.
Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. ΤΟ The Memory of my Mother I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN SORROWFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HER LOVE AND VIRTUES PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with.
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... present volume relates to Agnosticism . The explanation of the omission is that the author was anxious to avoid , in a semi - popular work , abstruse metaphysical discussion , and has long cherished the hope of being able , at some ...
... present volume relates to Agnosticism . The explanation of the omission is that the author was anxious to avoid , in a semi - popular work , abstruse metaphysical discussion , and has long cherished the hope of being able , at some ...
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... present to tell , but all that it will ever be able to tell about the world of matter and the mind of man and human history , would it be reasonable to expect this fully to satisfy him ? I think not . Were all that is to be known about ...
... present to tell , but all that it will ever be able to tell about the world of matter and the mind of man and human history , would it be reasonable to expect this fully to satisfy him ? I think not . Were all that is to be known about ...
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... tends to produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . 956 ) LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... tends to produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . 956 ) LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... present day there is no kind of anti - theism , no kind of atheism , so prevalent and so formidable as materialism . Wherever we find just now an anti - theistic or atheistic system popular , we may be certain that it is either a form ...
... present day there is no kind of anti - theism , no kind of atheism , so prevalent and so formidable as materialism . Wherever we find just now an anti - theistic or atheistic system popular , we may be certain that it is either a form ...
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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.