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Page xi
... idea of the Supernatural has no doubt been degraded by popular religion , and miracles must be subjects of open criticism , like all other traditions of the past . But to repel a supernatural Order alto- gether , or to ignore any sphere ...
... idea of the Supernatural has no doubt been degraded by popular religion , and miracles must be subjects of open criticism , like all other traditions of the past . But to repel a supernatural Order alto- gether , or to ignore any sphere ...
Page xii
... idea that modern any more than ancient empiricism can bar this door is a pretence which materialistic writers themselves are the first to contradict . The very pro- blems of science cannot be exhausted in terms of matter , and all the ...
... idea that modern any more than ancient empiricism can bar this door is a pretence which materialistic writers themselves are the first to contradict . The very pro- blems of science cannot be exhausted in terms of matter , and all the ...
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... ideas , which are easily mastered , and re- appear incessantly in all his works ; but to follow the frequently dim outline with which he advances step by step to many of his special conclusions , and to trace throughout any clear ...
... ideas , which are easily mastered , and re- appear incessantly in all his works ; but to follow the frequently dim outline with which he advances step by step to many of his special conclusions , and to trace throughout any clear ...
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... idea that he should not sink . With the advice and assistance of M. de Blain- ville , who was from first to last one of his best friends , he was transferred to Esquirol's famous establishment , where his excitement was so extreme that ...
... idea that he should not sink . With the advice and assistance of M. de Blain- ville , who was from first to last one of his best friends , he was transferred to Esquirol's famous establishment , where his excitement was so extreme that ...
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... idea of arranging them according to their respective generality and the degree of dependence which they bear to one another . The idea is simple enough , and it is absurd to claim any particular credit for it ; but it is at least as ...
... idea of arranging them according to their respective generality and the degree of dependence which they bear to one another . The idea is simple enough , and it is absurd to claim any particular credit for it ; but it is at least as ...
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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...