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... rest in the Divine Reason as the first cause ; his affections tend to a supreme good which can only be found in God ; his conscience contains a moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious of himself as ...
... rest in the Divine Reason as the first cause ; his affections tend to a supreme good which can only be found in God ; his conscience contains a moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious of himself as ...
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... rest in a state of suspense and hesitation from which there is no probability of deliverance , unless by theism being proved true . It must never express itself more strongly than by such phrases as " there is no knowing whether there ...
... rest in a state of suspense and hesitation from which there is no probability of deliverance , unless by theism being proved true . It must never express itself more strongly than by such phrases as " there is no knowing whether there ...
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... rests on these objections , the atheism which is purely critical . But whether I succeeded or not , it will be better now to offer some general considerations on atheism in its intellectual , emotional , and moral aspects , than to ...
... rests on these objections , the atheism which is purely critical . But whether I succeeded or not , it will be better now to offer some general considerations on atheism in its intellectual , emotional , and moral aspects , than to ...
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... rest in complacent contemplation of himself ? True self - knowledge is very much the reverse of pleasant or satisfying . Shame and terror are often its most natural effects . Science , culture , truth , when separated from their one ...
... rest in complacent contemplation of himself ? True self - knowledge is very much the reverse of pleasant or satisfying . Shame and terror are often its most natural effects . Science , culture , truth , when separated from their one ...
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... rest my confidence on what seems to me to be a fiction . He may urge , also , that truth must be accepted , whether it appear to us to be all that is morally desirable or not . But one who answers thus cannot have understood the tenor ...
... rest my confidence on what seems to me to be a fiction . He may urge , also , that truth must be accepted , whether it appear to us to be all that is morally desirable or not . But one who answers thus cannot have understood the tenor ...
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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.
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