Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... uncon- scious , aimless necessity . He referred the popular conceptions of Deity partly to an incapacity to understand fully the phenomena of which we are witnesses , and partly to the impressions occasioned by atmospheric and stellar ...
... uncon- scious , aimless necessity . He referred the popular conceptions of Deity partly to an incapacity to understand fully the phenomena of which we are witnesses , and partly to the impressions occasioned by atmospheric and stellar ...
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... uncon- nected with the world and its affairs . " Beware , " says Epicurus , " of attributing the revolutions of the heaven , and eclipses , and the rising and setting of stars , either to the original contrivance or con- tinued ...
... uncon- nected with the world and its affairs . " Beware , " says Epicurus , " of attributing the revolutions of the heaven , and eclipses , and the rising and setting of stars , either to the original contrivance or con- tinued ...
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... uncon- ditioned force , -but the self - contradiction will cling to him at the last as firmly as at the first . To get rid of it he may commit mental suicide by casting himself into the abyss of the " unknowable ; " but it will hold on ...
... uncon- ditioned force , -but the self - contradiction will cling to him at the last as firmly as at the first . To get rid of it he may commit mental suicide by casting himself into the abyss of the " unknowable ; " but it will hold on ...
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... Uncon- scious that he ascribes alike the origin of existence and of evil . That will has broken away from the primitive harmony of the Unconscious , and nature and life are the deplorable consequences . Reason -unconscious reason ...
... Uncon- scious that he ascribes alike the origin of existence and of evil . That will has broken away from the primitive harmony of the Unconscious , and nature and life are the deplorable consequences . Reason -unconscious reason ...
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... uncon- nected attributes . Of these attributes Spinoza professed to ex- plain only two - extension and thought . He does so on the ground that these are the only attri- butes of which the human understanding has any knowledge . Yet the ...
... uncon- nected attributes . Of these attributes Spinoza professed to ex- plain only two - extension and thought . He does so on the ground that these are the only attri- butes of which the human understanding has any knowledge . Yet the ...
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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.