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... principles of his own nature , as to persuade him- self that there is no reason in the universe higher than his own , no good which is not earthly and perishable , no righteous judge , no infinite and eternal God . The number of those ...
... principles of his own nature , as to persuade him- self that there is no reason in the universe higher than his own , no good which is not earthly and perishable , no righteous judge , no infinite and eternal God . The number of those ...
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... principle in man . The human intellect is by its very constitution compelled to seek first causes for events , and final ... principles legitimately lead , it has no right to start at all ; it must deny itself entirely ; it must wholly ...
... principle in man . The human intellect is by its very constitution compelled to seek first causes for events , and final ... principles legitimately lead , it has no right to start at all ; it must deny itself entirely ; it must wholly ...
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... principles and religious convictions . It puts what is lowest and most imperfect first , what is highest and most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism ...
... principles and religious convictions . It puts what is lowest and most imperfect first , what is highest and most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism ...
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... the exercise of faith and hope , reverence and love ? Severed from what will worthily develop the higher emotional principles of human nature , they may lead the soul into a land as waste 26 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... the exercise of faith and hope , reverence and love ? Severed from what will worthily develop the higher emotional principles of human nature , they may lead the soul into a land as waste 26 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... principles why reason and virtue should not be in antagonism - why falsehood , if believed , should not be more conducive in many cases to virtue and happiness than truth ; but the conclu- sion is none the less one which must seem per ...
... principles why reason and virtue should not be in antagonism - why falsehood , if believed , should not be more conducive in many cases to virtue and happiness than truth ; but the conclu- sion is none the less one which must seem per ...
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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?