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... theories which have nothing in common except that they are antagonistic to theism , it is necessary to have a general term to designate them . Anti - theism appears to be the appropriate word . It is , of course , much more ...
... theories which have nothing in common except that they are antagonistic to theism , it is necessary to have a general term to designate them . Anti - theism appears to be the appropriate word . It is , of course , much more ...
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... theory which refuses to ascribe to God an attribute which is essential to a worthy conception of His character is anti - theistic . Only those theories which refuse to acknowledge that there is evidence even for the existence of a God ...
... theory which refuses to ascribe to God an attribute which is essential to a worthy conception of His character is anti - theistic . Only those theories which refuse to acknowledge that there is evidence even for the existence of a God ...
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... theory or explanation of the universe ; that no positive or independent or scientific proof of it need be looked for ; and that facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus ...
... theory or explanation of the universe ; that no positive or independent or scientific proof of it need be looked for ; and that facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus ...
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... theory ; to main- tain that the moral order of the universe which he identified with God was , like the universe itself , the creation of the personal ego . But he indig- nantly repelled the charge and denied that he had ever confounded ...
... theory ; to main- tain that the moral order of the universe which he identified with God was , like the universe itself , the creation of the personal ego . But he indig- nantly repelled the charge and denied that he had ever confounded ...
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... theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of heterogeneous theories . There are sys- tems which ...
... theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of heterogeneous theories . There are sys- tems which ...
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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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