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... less reappear in them all , and these principles seem to me of great importance . The question with which they deal in diverse appli- cation is the great question of contemporary thought , in comparison with which all other questions ...
... less reappear in them all , and these principles seem to me of great importance . The question with which they deal in diverse appli- cation is the great question of contemporary thought , in comparison with which all other questions ...
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... less directly in the next 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 ...
... less directly in the next 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 ...
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... less pos- sible than a mere religion of nature . It is the withdrawal of men like Dr Newman and others from the open fields of reason and his- tory - where the true battle of religion can alone be fought which has given to the ...
... less pos- sible than a mere religion of nature . It is the withdrawal of men like Dr Newman and others from the open fields of reason and his- tory - where the true battle of religion can alone be fought which has given to the ...
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... less affiliated to the system , have expounded it , in our view , with a higher , or at 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 ...
... less affiliated to the system , have expounded it , in our view , with a higher , or at 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 ...
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... less from sifting and explanation at the hands of others . Possessed of great force of intellect , with a marvellous genius for scientific method , and a powerful faculty of co - ordinating knowledge from his own point of view ; endowed ...
... less from sifting and explanation at the hands of others . Possessed of great force of intellect , with a marvellous genius for scientific method , and a powerful faculty of co - ordinating knowledge from his own point of view ; endowed ...
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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...