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... OF HISTORY IN EUROPE . Vol . I. , containing the HISTORY OF THAT PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE AND GERMANY . Octavo , 15s . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS , Edinburgh and London . ANTI - THEISTIC THEORIES BEING The Baird Lecture for 1877.
... OF HISTORY IN EUROPE . Vol . I. , containing the HISTORY OF THAT PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE AND GERMANY . Octavo , 15s . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS , Edinburgh and London . ANTI - THEISTIC THEORIES BEING The Baird Lecture for 1877.
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... of Buddhism than to escape the hells and 1 Matheson - ' Growth of the Spirit of Christianity , ' vol . i . pp . 28 , 29 . to transmigrate into something better than he has been . Pessimism and the Way to the Chief Good . 331.
... of Buddhism than to escape the hells and 1 Matheson - ' Growth of the Spirit of Christianity , ' vol . i . pp . 28 , 29 . to transmigrate into something better than he has been . Pessimism and the Way to the Chief Good . 331.
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... vol . i . b . i . cho ii . NOTE III . , page 19 . PHYSICUS . In A Candid Examination of Theism ' by " Physi- cus , " the argumentation in my previous volume has been subjected to a lengthened examination ( see " Supple- mentary Essay II ...
... vol . i . b . i . cho ii . NOTE III . , page 19 . PHYSICUS . In A Candid Examination of Theism ' by " Physi- cus , " the argumentation in my previous volume has been subjected to a lengthened examination ( see " Supple- mentary Essay II ...
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... vol . ix . , No. 103 , pp . 162-166 . All the Hindu systems of philosophy , except Vedant- ism , expressly teach the eternity of a material principle from which the universe has been evolved , but they also teach the eternity of soul ...
... vol . ix . , No. 103 , pp . 162-166 . All the Hindu systems of philosophy , except Vedant- ism , expressly teach the eternity of a material principle from which the universe has been evolved , but they also teach the eternity of soul ...
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... vols . , does not strictly fall to be mentioned here , as it was published in 1794-96 ; but , along with the ' Botanic Garden ' and ' Phytologia , ' it did much to keep materialism in existence during the earlier part of the century 474 ...
... vols . , does not strictly fall to be mentioned here , as it was published in 1794-96 ; but , along with the ' Botanic Garden ' and ' Phytologia , ' it did much to keep materialism in existence during the earlier part of the century 474 ...
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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?