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... Divine Order are banished , than that the heavens move in an undeviating order , the proportions of which are ex- pressed in the formula , " directly as the mass , and inversely as the square of the distance . " It is plain that we here ...
... Divine Order are banished , than that the heavens move in an undeviating order , the proportions of which are ex- pressed in the formula , " directly as the mass , and inversely as the square of the distance . " It is plain that we here ...
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... Divine Order , of a Supreme Intelligence , ruling the world , only a superstition ? These various questions present the real points at issue ; they all mask the same general question . II . This question must now occupy us for a little ...
... Divine Order , of a Supreme Intelligence , ruling the world , only a superstition ? These various questions present the real points at issue ; they all mask the same general question . II . This question must now occupy us for a little ...
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... Divine Will is the type of all law and order . If there is a Divine Will at all , it must be a Will acting by general laws , by methods , of which order is an invariable characteristic ; and the presence of order or law through all the ...
... Divine Will is the type of all law and order . If there is a Divine Will at all , it must be a Will acting by general laws , by methods , of which order is an invariable characteristic ; and the presence of order or law through all the ...
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... divine action , low thoughts of God and of divine judgment , may vanish ; but the great conception of an Intelligent Will will live , and grow brighter beneath all the dis- coveries of an ever - expanding Order . The question is not one ...
... divine action , low thoughts of God and of divine judgment , may vanish ; but the great conception of an Intelligent Will will live , and grow brighter beneath all the dis- coveries of an ever - expanding Order . The question is not one ...
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... Divine origin of the existing order of things . " Positive Philosophy , " he says , " maintains that within the existing order of the universe , or rather of the part of it known to us , the direct determining cause of every phenomenon ...
... Divine origin of the existing order of things . " Positive Philosophy , " he says , " maintains that within the existing order of the universe , or rather of the part of it known to us , the direct determining cause of every phenomenon ...
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Page 303 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 158 - 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 of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 295 - Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being...