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... least religion in the old sense . This is the drift of the modern spirit - the " Zeit- geist , " as it is called . It has penetrated philosophy , literature , religion itself ; and men and women , in numbers , are trying everywhere to ...
... least religion in the old sense . This is the drift of the modern spirit - the " Zeit- geist , " as it is called . It has penetrated philosophy , literature , religion itself ; and men and women , in numbers , are trying everywhere to ...
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... least I have collected the Essays , and ventured thus briefly to trace the line of thought which connects them and gives them any value . ST ANDREWS , April 1884 . CONTENTS . PAGE AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM , 3 THE xiv PREFACE .
... least I have collected the Essays , and ventured thus briefly to trace the line of thought which connects them and gives them any value . ST ANDREWS , April 1884 . CONTENTS . PAGE AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM , 3 THE xiv PREFACE .
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... least a more discriminating success ; but there is no one who has been more faithful to it in his whole mode of thought , or who has more frequently recurred to its characteristic ideas , and explained them with more clearness ...
... least a more discriminating success ; but there is no one who has been more faithful to it in his whole mode of thought , or who has more frequently recurred to its characteristic ideas , and explained them with more clearness ...
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... least ( he is writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene , the obligation of reading nothing whatever bearing on my subject except such new scientific discoveries as I deemed useful - an obligation which ...
... least ( he is writing in 1842 ) imposed upon myself , on the score of cerebral hygiene , the obligation of reading nothing whatever bearing on my subject except such new scientific discoveries as I deemed useful - an obligation which ...
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... least used language which led to a cessation of their correspondence . He refused henceforth to undertake any new avocation for his maintenance , and A saying of Madame Clotilde de Vaux , quoted with enthusiasm in the ' Discours ...
... least used language which led to a cessation of their correspondence . He refused henceforth to undertake any new avocation for his maintenance , and A saying of Madame Clotilde de Vaux , quoted with enthusiasm in the ' Discours ...
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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...