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... idea of an intelligent First Cause , " says Mazzini , " once destroyed , the existence of a moral law , supreme over men , and constituting an obligation , a duty imposed upon all men , is destroyed with it ; so also all possibility of ...
... idea of an intelligent First Cause , " says Mazzini , " once destroyed , the existence of a moral law , supreme over men , and constituting an obligation , a duty imposed upon all men , is destroyed with it ; so also all possibility of ...
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... ideas and the spread of intellectual culture . Whatever merits , however , we may thus assign to them , will not warrant us to reverse or do more than unessentially modify the verdict which history so long unhesitatingly pronounced ...
... ideas and the spread of intellectual culture . Whatever merits , however , we may thus assign to them , will not warrant us to reverse or do more than unessentially modify the verdict which history so long unhesitatingly pronounced ...
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... idea which Anaxagoras had introduced into Greek philosophy - the idea , that the order in the universe could only be accounted for by the work- ing of an Eternal Reason was welcomed by Socrates , and shaped with admirable art into the ...
... idea which Anaxagoras had introduced into Greek philosophy - the idea , that the order in the universe could only be accounted for by the work- ing of an Eternal Reason was welcomed by Socrates , and shaped with admirable art into the ...
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... ideas are more than two thousand years old . They lay at the very founda- tion of the atomic philosophy . All that the most recent science has done in regard to them has been to verify them in particular instances by exact experiments ...
... ideas are more than two thousand years old . They lay at the very founda- tion of the atomic philosophy . All that the most recent science has done in regard to them has been to verify them in particular instances by exact experiments ...
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... idea of God is assailed - with which His existence is denied . Epicurus and Lucretius , even , in spite of their anxiety to throw off the yoke of religion , did not refuse to believe that there were gods , but only that they acted on ...
... idea of God is assailed - with which His existence is denied . Epicurus and Lucretius , even , in spite of their anxiety to throw off the yoke of religion , did not refuse to believe that there were gods , but only that they acted on ...
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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...
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