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... ATHEISM , AND ANTI- THEISM , · · · 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWLEDGE , . 446 III . PHYSICUS , • IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM , . 450 456 V. LANGE'S HISTORY OF MATERIALISM , VI . CHINESE MATERIALISM.
... ATHEISM , AND ANTI- THEISM , · · · 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWLEDGE , . 446 III . PHYSICUS , • IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM , . 450 456 V. LANGE'S HISTORY OF MATERIALISM , VI . CHINESE MATERIALISM.
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... ATHEISM OF SECULARISM , 508 . 509 • 514 520 XXV . DARWINISM AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF RELIGION , XXVI . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 522 XXVII . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 524 XXVIII . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF ...
... ATHEISM OF SECULARISM , 508 . 509 • 514 520 XXV . DARWINISM AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF RELIGION , XXVI . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 522 XXVII . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 524 XXVIII . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF ...
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... ATHEISM . I. IN the course of lectures which I delivered last year , I endeavoured to show that theism was true ; that there was an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of the belief that the heavens . and the earth and all that ...
... ATHEISM . I. IN the course of lectures which I delivered last year , I endeavoured to show that theism was true ; that there was an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of the belief that the heavens . and the earth and all that ...
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... atheism . No sys- tem is so opposed to theism as atheism ; it is the extreme form of opposition to it . But short of atheism there are anti - theistic theories . Poly- theism is not atheism , for it does not deny that there is a Deity ...
... atheism . No sys- tem is so opposed to theism as atheism ; it is the extreme form of opposition to it . But short of atheism there are anti - theistic theories . Poly- theism is not atheism , for it does not deny that there is a Deity ...
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... atheism , -the complete negation of theism . The term atheism , although much less general in signification than anti - theism , includes a multitude of systems . Atheism has a great variety of forms . Its advocates are by no means ...
... atheism , -the complete negation of theism . The term atheism , although much less general in signification than anti - theism , includes a multitude of systems . Atheism has a great variety of forms . Its advocates are by no means ...
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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 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?