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... CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY , ' ' LEADERS OF THE REFORMATION , ' ETC. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXIV All Rights reserved 1 127783 APR 6 1909 BS PREFACE . THESE Essays.
... CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY , ' ' LEADERS OF THE REFORMATION , ' ETC. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXIV All Rights reserved 1 127783 APR 6 1909 BS PREFACE . THESE Essays.
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John Tulloch. 127783 APR 6 1909 BS PREFACE . THESE Essays have a common object ; and I have thought them , therefore , worthy of being published together . The same principles more or less reappear in them all , and these principles seem ...
John Tulloch. 127783 APR 6 1909 BS PREFACE . THESE Essays have a common object ; and I have thought them , therefore , worthy of being published together . The same principles more or less reappear in them all , and these principles seem ...
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... essays of Professor Huxley , Dr Tyndall , and others , are largely independent , and would possibly have been what they are if the " Posi- tive Philosophy " had never appeared . They are in- spired by a motif of their own , and I have ...
... essays of Professor Huxley , Dr Tyndall , and others , are largely independent , and would possibly have been what they are if the " Posi- tive Philosophy " had never appeared . They are in- spired by a motif of their own , and I have ...
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... essay . There have been few more beautiful or thoughtful minds in our time than William Smith , the author of ' Thorndale ' ; but it is the " conflict of opinion " rather than the dogmatic affirmation of a purely naturalistic doctrine ...
... essay . There have been few more beautiful or thoughtful minds in our time than William Smith , the author of ' Thorndale ' ; but it is the " conflict of opinion " rather than the dogmatic affirmation of a purely naturalistic doctrine ...
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Agnosticism argument Arnold Auguste Comte basis betwixt Blackwood's Magazine Caro character Christian Comte Comte's conception consciousness criticism Crown 8vo Democritus Divine doctrine dogma Dr Tyndall Edinburgh essay ethical existence experience external facts Fcap feeling Ferrier force German Gravenhurst Greek Philosophy Hartmann higher History human Hume idea ideal Illustrations intellectual intelligence Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Königsberg Kritik language Lectures less LL.D logical materialistic matter meaning ment merely metaphysical mind modern moral nature never object perception Pessimism phenomena philosophy physical Positive Positivism Positivist Post 8vo principle privat-docent Professor question reality reason recognise religion religious righteousness says Schopenhauer scientific Scotland Scottish Second Edition sense Sir William Hamilton speculation sphere spiritual supposed Theism theology theory things thinker Thorndale thought tion Translated true truth University University of Edinburgh vols volume whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD words writings
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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...